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THIS MONUMENT ERECTED
AS A TRIBUTE TO THE FAITH
OF THE PIONEERS AND THE
DETERMINATION OF THE
MEN WHO HAVE CARRIED
ON TO ESTABLISH THE
HEREFORD BREED AS
LEADER IN THE BEEF
CATTLE WORLD.

DEDICATED OCTOBER 16, 1953
BY
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES

Seen On Usenet
Subject: I is connected now!
From: pt <paul_m_thompson@my-deja.com>
Newsgroups: co.general

Well I finally bought a cell phone. To celebrate, I'm going to let the air out of the Firestones, jump in the Suburban, and drive to Flatirons Crossing at about 700 miles per hour, jabbering mindlessly on the phone the whole way. Now, when I spill hot McDonalds coffee on my lap, spin out of control and hit the bus full on nuns, whose fault is it?

1. Nokia (no dial locks on phone, deep pockets)
2. Firestone (faulty tires, deep pockets)
3. General Motors (No tire pressure sensors, deep pockets)
4. Phillip Morris (we're on a roll so whack 'em again, deep pockets)
5. The Roman Catholic Church (deep pockets)
6. Ronald McDonald (bad cup design, deep pockets)

Answer: None of the above. It was a trick question. As in all things, it was the guns.

Have a nice day, and get the f**k out of my way.

You can never bash Microsoft too much!
This comes from From www.langa.com:

Hi Fred, just thought I'd mention what a MISTAKE I made going with the new (beta) version of MSN. I use MSN as my ISP, and thought "hey, generally, I have found Microsoft products have really improved my productivity, so I'll give it a try". Boy, did that mess things up. While they warn you that once you switch, you won't be able to use MS Outlook or Outlook Express again, they fail to warn you of other problems. Specifically, I sometimes email work home that may in some cases be more than 1 meg. Not anymore. Because the new version of MSN uses Hotmail, I cannot receive attachments of that size. I also cannot create nice HTML emails like I used to, nor can I forward them when logged in away from home. Also, many times I will be working at home and have an email message open while I find work related material on various websites.... While doing this, this new beta version of MSN Explorer stopped responding and locked up, and because my email is now integrated, everything I ha d worked on was lost! Or, in some cases, an error would occur and MSN Explorer would tell me "We're sorry, but an error has occurred and this program will be shut down. Would you like to tell MSN about it? (or something like that)" And again, all of the browser windows I had open would close, and I would lose all of the sites I had found. This SUCKS! PLEASE WARN ALL OF YOUR READERS NOT TO DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM - I WISH I HADN'T! --- Steve Waddell

Credit Where Credit Is Due
Vinton Cerf did invent the internet.

Al Gore And The Internet
By Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf

Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.

No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.

Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective.

As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept. Our work on the Internet started in 1973 and was based on even earlier work that took place in the mid-late 1960s. But the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disa sters and other crises.

As a Senator in the 1980s Gore urged government agencies to consolidate what at the time were several dozen different and unconnected networks into an "Interagency Network." Working in a bi-partisan manner with officials in Ronald Reagan and George Bush's administrations, Gore secured the passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991. This "Gore Act" supported the National Research and Education Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science.

As Vice President Gore promoted building the Internet both up and out, as well as releasing the Internet from the control of the government agencies that spawned it. He served as the major administration proponent for continued investment in advanced computing and networking and private sector initiatives such as Net Day. He was and is a strong proponent of extending access to the network to schools and libraries. Today, approximately 95% of our nation's schools are on the Internet. Gore provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven operation.

There are many factors that have contributed to the Internet's rapid growth since the later 1980s, not the least of which has been political support for its privatization and continued support for research in advanced networking technology. No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the councils of government and with the public at large.

The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world.

Dick Studley
Imagine growing up with that name! Not easy. Now imagine doing that growing up in Provincetown! Nonetheless, Dick (we're sure he prefers Richard) has done well. Here's what the Provincetown Banner has to say about him:

Richard Studley
Athlete and scholar

Provincetown athlete and scholar senior Richard Studley shows his skills on the field against Chatham. Studley recently demonstrated his skills in the classroom as well, being named a Commended Student in the 2001 National Merit Scholarship Program, placing him among the top five percent of more than one million students who entered the 2001 Merit Program by taking the 1999 Preliminary SAT/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Currently reading: To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis

Currently watching: Actually, I'm still just plodding through the Olympics that I taped from NBC.

No Reruns
We got a request to reprise our closely reasoned opinions on the Massachusetts ballot questions. Fortunately for you, we are not the Fox network, and we don't do reruns. BUT because the request was couched in such friendly terms, and because we have drunk lots of the requestor's wine, and because he can probably give us some good pointers on web design we are going to provide this Handy Dandy Link to that bit. Also, for those of you who want to trust us without any intellectual involvement at all. Here is the quick and dirty summary of How To Vote:

1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. Yes Yes Yes Yes!
5. No
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Yes

Old People Not So Stupid
I had an experience on the way home from work tonight that was very reassuring. I stopped in a CVS to pick up a few items. Working the cash registers were two very young men, certainly the very sort of young men who are supposed to be the ones right on the bleeding edge of technology, the sort of slackers who tomorrow or the day after will release some new concept on the internet that will make Napster look about as exciting as a Quaker meeting, the sort of young men who sneer at us old guys as they quit their CVS cashier jobs and buy BMW convertibles. One young man of apparently Asian descent, with orange dyed hair we shall call "Orange." The other one was of apparently European descent, several days' growth of whiskers, Hilfiger baseball cap and a face already showing signs of excessive alcohol and tobacco use. Call him "Hilfiger."

So Orange asks Hilfiger "How much will you sell me that modem for?"

"Oh, I'll give it to you. Modems aren't worth much now," Hilfiger answered.

"How many Emm Bee does it have on it?" He said it that way. "Emm Bee."

Hilfiger, without batting an eye, answered "It's a 56 Kay modem."

"Oh, can I get one with more Kay? Like 69 or maybe just 60?"

At this point I glanced at Hilfiger to see if he was going to do an eye-roll, but he stayed straight-faced and said "Well, you'd need a special phone line for that. See, if you wanted a faster modem you'd need Dee Ess Ell or Eye Ess Dee Enn."

"Oh!" said Orange, now apparently satisfied with the Kay that would be on his modem.

It is good to know that not all of the very young will become dot com millionaires in the next couple of years. There will be minimum wage cashiers available at CVS for all of the foreseeable future.

Let's slam that disgusting Nader! Check out NaderSucks.org

Steven Allen - Genius
1921 - 2000
Created The Tonight Show
which pretty well defines the end of the 20th century, no?
Our condolences to Jayne

Seen On Usenet
Subject: Re: The Mythical Modules of Handspring
From: "Mike Smith" <msmith@NOSPAMkldlabs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot

"Mark D Hiatt" <the.trash.MarkHiatt.the.trash@the.trash.aol.com.the.trash> wrote in message news:8m47om$gvl$1@unlnews.unl.edu...

> So the real moral of the story is that the Kingdom of PDAs is blessed. The
> brotherhood of Palm is blessed. And the brotherhood of Handspring Visor users is
> even more blessed, still, for even if the modules never appear, there is
> precious little one can do with a Palm that one cannot with a Visor, yeah, and
> even unto the other clones running the PalmOS.

Yea, tho' the Brotherhood of Visor be nigh as holy as the Fraterae of Palm, there dost in truth be at least one spot upon their house. Forsooth, I have of late been inducted unto the Brotherhood, and hast thus far found great joy and enlightenment within my new vocation. However, not two sunsets ago, I didst attempt to commensurate the marriage of the Visor with my loyal and long-standing friend and helpmeet, the PeeCee of the Two Thousand Windows, via what was to have been the most sensible and effective of means, the Portal of Yu'ess Bee, thinking that this would elevate our joy and enlightenment to still untold levels. All of the necessary incantations were incanted, and all of the required magic words delivered unto the perfect memory of my friend the PeeCee (including the newest encyclicals which were intended by the Holy Ones to address the subject of the Two Thousand Windows). Lo, however, the mating of the two was fraught with peril and pain. On some occasions, the mating would be brief, and efficient, and most pleasurable for all parties. On others, though, the copulation would extend for many turnings of the glass, ending with my beloved PeeCee becoming comatose, her face turning blue from the exhaustion, with a final gasp of arcane words. I could only barely make them out... something like "Visor You Ess Bee Dot Sys". (Clearly, she had become incoherent.) O Holy Ones, why wouldst thou give me the gift of Brotherhood, and then taint it in this way?


Subject: Re: The Mythical Modules of Handspring
From: "Mike Smith" <msmith@NOSPAMkldlabs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot

"Mark S" <replyto@this.news.group> wrote in message news:8mc6h0$dcm@dispatch.concentric.net...
> Amen, brother!
> ROFL
> Thank you.

In truth and fairness, though, I must impart unto thee a new and joyous chapter in my tale. As it has come to pass, yet another Holy Voice has spoken, from the celestial plane of Mykros Sapht, with news that the seminal edification of the Two Thousand Windows wast, forsooth, slightly less than true celestial perfection. Some repair work hast been performed, as declaimed within the most holy document of Sehrvus Pahk'Wan, the specifc content of which is mysterious and unknowable to mere mortals. Mine ignorance aside, however -- upon the application of the proper ministrations unto mine PeeCee, in accordance with the teachings of Sehrvus Pahk'Wan, she has become capable of repeated, vigorous, feverishly pleasurable couplings with the golden prongs of the Visor that was granted to me upon my acceptance into the Brotherhood. Seemingly bucketloads of spurting information now flow between PeeCee and Visor, with nary a drop spilled upon the earth of my dwelling, accompanied by beeps and c hirps of great joy. Oh, happy day!

Unconfirmed Stories from the Darwin Awards
A 23-year-old bar-brawler who had been escorted out of the Turtle Club in Florida by a bouncer, sneaked back in and leaped off a staircase, aiming a kick at another man, but was killed when he landed on his head.

Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn by freeing a captive herd. Suddenly all two thousand of pigs stampeded through the gate they were opening, and trampled the hapless protesters to death.

In San Jose, California, Herman, an avid hunter, used the butt of his shotgun to bash his girlfriend's windshield during an argument. But his loaded gun accidentally discharged into his stomach, killing him and ending the argument.

More Darwin Award stories here.

How Some Of My DNA Originally Got To North America
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PETER HAZELBAKER

During the Revolutionary War, about the 1779, while the officers of the Duke of Brunswick, the Landgrave of Hesse Cassal, the hereditary Prince of Cassal and Count of Hannan, were drafting a regiment of grenadiers for the King of England, George III, Peter Hazelbaker was standing in the crowd of spectators, when he was called across the street and commanded to "Step under the standard." He measured six feet one and three fourths inches in height, black eyes and hair, and dark complected. He was a little too tall, but the officer said he "would do," He was 18 or 19 years old, and said to be the only son of his mother, a widow. This happened at Ansbach, province of Bavaria, Germany. England paid for each soldier a subsidy of seven pounds, four shillings four pence, and twice that for all who were killed.

Coming to America, Peter was taken prisoner at Yorktown, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered. When the exchange of prisoners took place, Peter was hidden in the barn of one Daniel Shively, of Berkley county, Virginia, now West Virginia, and was never exchanged.

Peter married Elizabeth, daughter of the above named Shively, and settled nearby. Here were born to him six sons, John, Peter, Daniel, Abraham, George, and Jacob. One night while in bed, he was bitten by a spider. The doctor sent for was drunk and sent medicine, which though it saved his life, left him paralyzed. Sometime later, with his family, Peter moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, settling in Allen township. He died in 1800 at about the age of 38 years and was buried in a field near the present residence of Major Henry Sphor.

John was born September 16, 1782 and died September 21, 1864. He was the first school teacher in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, using what is now the kitchen of the residence of the late Mrs. Mary Corwin as a school house. He moved to Blue Creek, Ohio, and later to New Market, Iowa, where he died.

Peter dies six weeks later than his father and was buried beside him in the Sphor graveyard.

Daniel was born about 1786. He married, and after some years, his wife dying, he left his children in Pennsylvania, and moved to Blue Creek, Ohio, later moving to Summitvulle, Indiana, where he dies, leaving three sets of children.

George was born November 18, 1790, and after outliving all his brothers, died near the old home June 25, 1880.

Abraham was born about 1794. He moved early in the century to Blue Creek, Ohio, where he died.

Jacob was born about 1796. He was a shoemaker by trade and lived many years near the old home, moving in 1848 to near Perryopolis, where he dies in 1868.

This sketch prepared for the descendants of Peter Hazelbaker by L.B.Kinne in 1896.

Sorry for that long break, but things ought to be back in the groove now.

Go to this page to get access to a RealAudio version of John Sacco's speaking engagement at the South End Library this past week. John Sacco is the [now-retired] police officer who wrote the very entertaining police blotter for the South End News. Some of us read it to see if we detected a hint of racism or homophobia, but we all read it to know what was really going on and to get at least a couple of great big laughs every week.

Candlelight Vigil is a site not for the fainthearted or weenie. Nor is The Dead People Server which is simply a list of interesting celebrities who are long dead, newly dead or might plausibly be dead.

Looking out the window of Ron's Log Data Center I see the season's first snow! Aiyee!

Kansas City: Hopeless or Still Flailing?
I was born and raised in Kansas City, so I think I have a lifelong license to say anything about it that I want to say; unlike Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I am only free to comment on the euphony of its name.

Kansas City, just to give you the lay of the land, is in Missouri. There is a Kansas City immediately adjacent across the state line in Kansas, but it's a small city, no more important to the metropolitan area than, say, Independence, Missouri. It is, in fact, considerably less significant than Overland Park, the large, growing, prosperous suburb in Johnson County, Kansas, which is a vast sea of middle class housing and shopping malls.

The geographical area of Kansas City, Missouri, is vast [and we're going to drop that "Missouri" henceforth]. It sprawls across three counties. Around that are the rings of suburbs that spread out to triple the metropolitan area. I jokingly told a Kansas Citian that the entire area of Boston proper could probably fit into downtown Kansas City if you included the industrial areas adjoining it.

The natural limits to growth in the Kansas City area are...none. Which is part of the problem. There are no great rivers, mountains, seashores, or lakes on any side that can prevent the city from oozing in all compass directions at once. Kansas City has taken advantage of this by constructing an excessive amount of freeways around and through the city. You can get anywhere easily and quickly by car. This tends to level out property values all across the city. You can choose to live just about anywhere, regardless of where you work or shop.

There is a great feeling of spaciousness everywhere. Roads are generously wide. Parking is easily available everywhere. Homes and yards are large. Open real estate is available in just about every neighborhood.

There is no "there" there.

Downtown is ringed by empty lots, huge scars still remaining from urban renewal projects of the 1960s. The east side, always the poorer part of town, has finally had a freeway rammed through its midst, despite evidence from a hundred other cities that this will just serve to lower property values, increase crime, and exacerbate racist patterns in housing. The freeway was fought for a long time, so the strip that had been cleared for it sat unused for decades. It could have been used for some kind of rail project, but no, not in Kansas City.

Kansas City has a terrible track record on large projects (all of which, by the way, are in Kansas City, Missouri, never in any of the surrounding parts of the area). KCI airport is probably the most glaring example. Built far north of the city when I was in high school, they expected the city to rapidly grow out to it. It's been almost 30 years, but when you land at KCI you are still landing in wide open farmland. It is, I must say, closer to the city than Dulles is to Washington. So it's not like it's got the worst location.

And I consider the Truman Sports Complex to have been a grotesque waste of money. A giant paved piece of the city located at the intersection of two big highways (at least they didn't plow under a neighborhood), by building adjoining football and baseball stadiums with parking only sufficient for one event they guaranteed its long-term inefficiency.

But what's good about Kansas City? Lots of smaller things:

• The boulevards - miles of gorgeously landscaped, wide, fast-flowing, curving boulevards throughout the city. Excellent for driving while still remaining livable for the residents along the way. These are probably what Olmstead intended Boston's parkways to be like, but Boston's relative dearth of freeways has put such a load on the parkways that they have become inhuman.
• The fountains - a bird doesn't have to fly more than three blocks without being able to stop for another bath. They're everywhere.
• The parks - in Kansas City parks permeate the neighborhoods, and are well-maintained, not like Boston where the city considers them a handy place to isolate drug dealers.
• [Some of] The architecture - it looks like from maybe 1890 until World War II nothing was built in Kansas City without giving some thought to making it beautiful, or novel, or well-proportioned, or at least interesting. On the other hand, I can't think of anything other than the RLDS Temple in Independence that might qualify as good architecture built after World War II. Kansas City has made little attempt to preserve its architecture until recently, but the economies of the area have worked to preserve quite a bit. Why go to the expense of tearing down a beautiful downtown building when you can build your skyscraper on a cow pasture in the suburbs? Even though a lot of beautiful stuff has been torn down, the city is still rich in great old stuff. There was a huge Art Deco building boom in the 1930s. And there are hundreds of old west frontier-style buildings still in use throughout the city. And while the new skyscrapers are pretty much the standard sort of thing you see in every American city, they are all better than the sorry ass things that have been put up in Boston over the last 20 years.
• Nelson Art Gallery
• Barbecue
• Friendly people. The few rude ones I encountered were pathetically bad at it. I withheld my east coast attitude that they might not be crushed by it.

Cheap good beer!
In Kansas City we found River Market Brewing Company at 5th and Walnut, near the City Market. Good beer brewed on the premises, and only two bucks for a pint! This cannot be beat. Friendly staff too. The only negative thing I have to say is that they provide no handy card or chalkboard with a list of their brews. You either have to have a good memory or ask the waitstaff to repeat the list again each time you order. We got off on making the waitstaff work.

Consumer Product Endorsement
Sony MDR-NC20 noise canceling headphones are pretty neat. I've had these for awhile, but didn't get a chance to give them a full test until I was in the air. Very effective! They are designed to block sounds that are right in the range of jet engine noise (in the interior of an aircraft). I was able to listen to Mahler's 6th Symphony at only moderate volume levels and still hear even the pianissimo sections clearly. They also made it much easier to sleep during the flight.

These work like other noise canceling headphones by using a microphone to pick up the sounds in the environment and then generating an inverse wave of that sound in the headphones. They are more effective in the lower ranges, so you can still hear when the pilot makes an announcement or the flight attendant speaks, but you probably won't be able to understand them without removing the headphones.

These headphones cover the ear and the microphone is up on the headset, which makes them more effective than some other models where the microphone dangles down near your chest. They take one AAA battery and are in the same class as all those other electronic devices that must be turned off during takeoff and landing. They do not require a music source. You can slip them on and turn on the noise canceling and it will still be effective. They come with a standard mini-plug for a Walkman, but they also include a two-pronged plug so they can be used with the aircraft's own sound system.

I got mine from Crutchfield for about $150. They seem to be in pretty high demand right now, but that price will drop eventually, like everything else.

I must say good things about Midwest Express airlines. This is the second trip I've flown them. They operate the only non-stop between Boston and Kansas City. They are fabulous!

Their cabins are one class. There is no first class or coach. The leather-covered seats are big! And legroom is comfortable for me (I'm 6'1" or 184 cm). Meals are good and are served on real plates with real cutlery. Salt and pepper come in real glass shakers. All meals include free red or white wine (relatively unlimited). Dessert is always a couple of warm chocolate chip cookies (possibly unlimited as well, but I haven't tested this). Every employee of Midwest I've ever dealt with has been friendly, patient, helpful, polite and clear speaking.

Their hub is Milwaukee, and they cover the midwest intensively, of course, but they also fly to the east coast, Florida, California and the southwest. About the only region they don't touch is the northwest, so your chances of running into Bill Gates on board are slim. Here's a route map.

I'm sure my memory is unreliable, but I think this is what flying was like way back in my childhood.

We Get Letters

Subject: Your bad politics
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:47:51 -0400

Ron,

I am a Democrat and plan on voting for Gore., The Libertarians are a bunch of nuts - guns for everyone- crazy stuff to me! Sorry, but no way.

Clinton has been the most gay friendly President ever and Gore will do the same.

VOTE DEMOCRAT!!!

Regards,


P>S Please do not send me any more political dribble.

The author may have me confused me with Dan Quayle, who probably does put out political dribble. I, however, am pretty sure I only put out political drivel.