Sellam, Sellam, Sellam. You gotta stop offering such neat toys at such low prices. I had to speak quite strictly to myself to stop me from asking you for one, even though I've got way too much stuff I've no real use for already. (I seem to have succeeded, though, in talking myself out of it....) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Dude... you're spending WAY too much time watching Church-TV .. --f

Quothe Vintage Computer Festival, from writings of Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:37:02AM -0800: Ah yes, Rev. Sellam, High Vintage Guru of the Evangelical Temple of the Classic Vintage Computer Festival. How about "Pass the plate and get your soul processed---the more cash, the more CPU cycles will be spent on the work, then do unto Microsoft as Microsoft would do unto you." as the mantra? :-) Sounds like fun. Everyone could get together and have wild spiritual hacking festivities where they worship the beast of computing by purchasing, selling, bartering and trading equipment at vintage computer festivals. Any thoughts on who you're going to appoint to lead the worldwide Campus Crusades for the Preservation of Classic Iron and collect the dues from the national organizations in each country? Hey, let's also not overlook the government for some faith-based funding for this new religion... think of all the old mainframes that could be bought with that; after all, wouldn't each Vintage Hacking Temple (with "Know Thy Microcoding" carved above each entryway) require at least one working minicomputer or mainframe system and related peripherals, at the minimum? Hey, if all those inner-city preachers with gold teeth driving Cadillacs with wide white-wall tires and over-sized bumper guards, who start churches operated out of former corner markets, old movie theaters and pawn shops, can get rich off of their evangelical religious organizations, as do those preachers in rural areas, with wives who like to over-apply gaudy makeup Tammy Fay Baker style, who build televised megachurches in their cornfields, why shouldn't some of us get rich off of related, although far more sensible and worthwhile, tactics as well? ;-) -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.