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aferd23 here. ordinary cyborg-clone with slight mechanical
alterations.
So here I am, stuck in a bar on the outer part of a spiral arm of the (ugh)
milky way galaxy. Of all the places in the universe I had to pick
this one.
Editor's note: afterwards I found a somewhat similar quote in
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams:
"Far out in the unchartered backwaters of the unfashionable end
of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded
yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million
miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose
ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they
think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
What the heck, he is professional.
SOME FAVORITE MAGIC: THE GATHERING CARDS
My favorite "Magic: the Gathering" cards include Swords to Ploughshares,
Fireball, Lord of the Pit, and of course, the Nalathni Dragon, the card
with the great picture, that came with some magazine. I do't play very
much these days, but I still love some of the cards. Of course the
Lord of the pit is a bit too slow for a super competitive deck and has
other drawbacks, but the flying, trample is fun. The Nalathni Dragon
also is a good/borderline card, but that great picture.
My favorite decks include a weenie deck with wrinkles, a fast, green,
large creature deck, and a black/white creature deck. Also a blue
white permission deck is kind of fun.
BLITZ CHESS etc. on OLD COMPUTER
I recently glommed on to an old Chessmaster 2000 chess program (the
current version is the 5500 or something), but on my old Tandy 1000
allows me to practice my blitz chess. I am pretty happy with it when
I can find the time and electricity to use it. I set it on its
weakest setting and then I cripple it a bit more by allowing it to
compute only on its own turn. I then allow myself extra time to enter
in the moves and as much handicap time as I can stand. It also works
on my 8088(?).
I can also then test openings on it.
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Other old computer stuff...
Here's a quote from the introduction of a book on a virtual computer
inside a regular computer:
"This book is not for everyone.
It's for people who want to make a dinosaur dance...
to exactly the tune that suits them at the moment.
Who want to the most complex, precision-built machines
available and make them do something bizarre,
inexplicable, or totally unexpected.
It's for people who keep looking for what's underneath
the surface..."
Lee Felsentein
Moderator, Homebrew Computer Club,
Computer designer
in the foreword for Bebop BYTES Back by
Clive Maxfield and Alvin Brown
This does not exactly state the way that I feel about
older computers, but it is an interesting quote. For
the most part I would be content to leave the black box
computer parts to more knowledgeable people. Heck, I'd
be happy to have them behave normally. But I do love the
friendly beep and the old monochrome screen lighting up.
I am going to try to learn a little bit of programming
in some language, but hopefully not enough to hurt me.
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TIP on Civilization II: Russ, the Moose, sez: Avoid the
Manhattan Project because Nuclear Wars tend to be inefficient.
LOW LEVEL THEOLOGY-SCIENCE
(SCUSE MY SOAPBOX)
Reasons I believe in Genesis (the book)
Some of this information does relate to the creationism,
tangentially, but the main focus is on Genesis. While I
am not a pure creationist (I am not certain how things
were created) but I certainly believe in at least parts
of Genesis as shown below.
1: Data from Genesis on the ages of early man.
2: "Destabilization" technique used on Eve.
Once I happened to read a propaganda manual from some
foreign country. In it were several steps, two of which
were "Destabilization" and "Normalization". Later I realized
the implications of these steps. To "normalize" someone, i.e.
to have them agree to your view point, it would help to
"Destabilize" first, that is make them unsure of
themselves or their viewpoints. This technique is used
elsewhere. So if you want to have Patty Hearst become
Tanya,you might stick the teen age girl into a dark closet
with no food or bathroom priviledges for a few days to
destabilize her. Also this technique can be used to make
soldiers out of civilians faster. Anyhow, if you read the
Genesis story of the serpent (/reptile?) in the garden,
you would note that a similar technique was used on Eve.
In order to sell her the idea that
it was okay to eat the fruit, the serpent made her question
another statement, that she would die if she ate it. Once
she started to question that idea, the "destabilized" Eve
then went on to eat the forbidden fruit, etc. I think the
simple, yet sophisticated technique makes me believe that
the story is true, even in a time when many think of
Genesis as a story made up to explain things. I do try to
be very careful about making moral evaluations and
judgements about using this technique.
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