On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 09:59  AM, Tom wrote:
> Post MG in the 80's there were the colums by A K Dewdney that I dug a
> bunch put into a book  called Turing Omnibus and then there is , of
> course, all the goodens put out by Dougy Hoffstadler.
A.K. Dewdney was the name I was looking for and the column was "Computer
Recreations". Turns out he's still in Ontario and even has some homemade

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bitbitch@magnesium.net wrote:
> Well Beberg, unless you're really into Anime and actually hold true
> that dead people can send email, I think Geege's subject is just
> dandy.
Funny you should mention that, as I just came back from refilling
the green coolant in my Navi.
> (bonus FoRK points if Adam knows what anime i'm refering to)
I guess I don't get any points, do I? No, didn't think so.
- Joe
P.S. We've just started watching Boogiepop Phantom...
--
The Combatant State is your father and your mother, your only
protector, the totality of your interests. No discipline can
be stern enough for the man who denies that by word or deed.

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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 bitbitch@magnesium.net wrote:
> Well Beberg, unless you're really into Anime and actually hold true
> that dead people can send email, I think Geege's subject is just dandy.
> Especially since she removed herself from the hive that is aol (and
> placed herself unto another, but hey :-))
Bandwidth is bandwidth. AOL is still the only mom-friendly place to get it.
> *ducks and runs*
What, like i'm not skilled with a bow? You better run really fast :-P
> (bonus FoRK points if Adam knows what anime i'm refering to)
Well lets see, about 99% of all anime? In anime dead people can talk, email,
hang out, and generally lead normal lives. Come to think of it they tend to
be the primary characters ;)
But I suspect you mean Serial Experiments Lain, in which the initial "i'm
not dead yet" is via email.
- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
beberg@mithral.com