Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!snorkelwacker!genbank!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu (Steven Stadnicki,9B23 Woodstock,2680000,5186432664) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Callahan's on IRC Message-ID: <1989Dec7.214313.2400@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 7 Dec 89 21:43:13 GMT Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 8 Well, after playing around a bit, I'd like to propose an unofficial Callahan's channel on IRC; ch. 25, staffed by whoever's around at the time, open 24 hours, etc. Title is up to whoever's on... Steve Stadnicki stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu "'E's just a techie, but we likes 'im." Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!ucsd!ucsdhub!celit!kathy From: kathy@fps.com (the Rev. Mom) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Request for Personal Info About Posters Message-ID: <4958@celit.fps.com> Date: 6 Dec 89 21:13:58 GMT References: <3170@hub.UUCP> <1989Dec1.042626.9079@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Sender: daemon@fps.com Reply-To: kathy@fps.com (the Rev. Mom) Organization: FPS Computing Inc., San Diego CA Lines: 101 >>snoopy@fig.ucsb.edu (Smith, Jamie Lynn) writes: >> ... Let's all post a little bit about our true selves... Count me in. > stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu (Steven Stadniki) writes: >And finally, probably one of my biggest hobbies right now: comics. >yep, that's right. A fair chunk of you know what I mean... Austin does, for >sure, and Kathy... Defini-absolutely. I been collecting the little puppies for nigh on 10 years. > _Love and Rockets_, by the Hernandez brothers. I can't even begin to >describe how good this is; it literally has to be seen to be believed. I'll second that recommendation. This is the one you hand people who aren't comic book readers to make them comic book readers. 'Beto's stuff is reminiscent of Garcia Marquez's work. > Donna Barr does one of the weirdest comics I've seen, _The Desert Peach_, >which isn't really about gay Nazis in North Afrika, despite what you might >have heard. :-) Seriously, it's a very clever, occasionally funny book >that might just surprise you. She also does _Stinz_, but I'll let Kathy >talk about that... [sniff!] STINZ was cancelled as of #4, and now I'll *NEVER* get to see the wedding issue! But at least I got the t-shirt. But I think everybody who likes seeing lots of male skin ought to get DESERT PEACH #3. What a riot! ("And you say I be short!") >_Star Trek_, esp. #2, with a guest appearance by someone who shall >go nameless (:-) Yes. Nameless. Yes. [God. I've already gotten about six male-college-student stage mothers from that.] Ok. The vital stats: Name: Kathy Li (pronounced "Lee". My grampa went to Germany to study medicine; it's his fault.) Sex: hopefully ;-) Birthday: The first day Star Trek went on the air. (for those without concordances: Sept.8, 1966. Virgo) I was born to be a trekkie. :-) Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, NY Location: San Diego-thereabouts. (La Jolla) (for those ignorant of CA-geography, it's on the coast, twenty-minutes-by-freeway north of the Mexican border, south of LA). Handle: The Rev. Mom originating from a tiff on rec.arts.comics and the then-recent release of Lynch's movie version of DUNE. Height: 5'5.5" Weight: 115-120, depending on how much coffee Haagen-Dasz I've been ingesting. Ethnicity: 2nd generation Chinese. School: UC Berserkeley, EECS major, English Lit. minor. made a habit of hanging out at the bookstore, Other Change of Hobbit. Job Title: The Other Tech Writer at FPS, San Diego. Favorite authors: Helene Hanff, WM Thackeray, George R. R. Martin, Elizabeth Peters, Dorothy L. Sayers, Bill Shakespeare, GB Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Robin McKinley, Somtow Sucharitkul and Diane Duane. Subject to change. Rapidly. Favorite music: showtunes, specifically, Stephen Sondheim. (co-recruiter for musicals mailing list at musicals-request@world.std.com) Current car-tape is THE LITTLE MERMAID and SARAFINA! jammed together. Favorite newsgroups: alt.callahans, rec.arts.comics, rec.arts.tv.uk, soc.motss (proud moment in my life when I coined the term 'biscuit'). Again, subject to change. Favorite tv shows: South Bank Show (know anybody else willing to use an Andrew Lloyd-Webber version of a Paganini variation for a theme song? That shows you Jonathan Pryce as Hamlet-possessed -by-his-father? Thought not. :-) and Alien Nation. Preferred dress: jeans, and printed shirts with show logos. + black plastic digital watch with phone numbers, calculator, schedule-calendar. Favorite soda: Koala kiwi-grapefruit-lime Favorite bread-spread: Nutella. (eyew! Just imagined the two together. :-6) Hobbies: comics collecting, origami, book-shopping. Current kick: Reminiscing about the three months I spent in London, seeing almost-40-plays, sightseeing my socks off, and praying I had my camera on the right f-stop. Also pretending I was Helene Hanff. --Kathy Li aka the Rev. Mom -- kathy@fps.com |my opinions,not FPS's| Scuttle: There's something ------------------------------------+ different about you...I can't quite put my foot on it-- Sebastian: She's got legs! GEEZ, mon! --THE LITTLE MERMAID Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hplred!egly From: egly@hplred.HP.COM (Diana Egly) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: explanations (long!) and a toast. Message-ID: <20940005@hplred.HP.COM> Date: 1 Dec 89 18:05:02 GMT References: <348@unicorn.WWU.EDU> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 7 Karl - friends - remember that the drinks at Callahans are fifty cents, not a dollar. You get your change back when you return your glass. If you make a toast or resonate with a toast or a story -- well -- that's where the second half of your dollars goes... Glasses do cost something, eh? And with that I hurl my glass into the fireplace in solidarity with something that Karl said... Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hplred!egly From: egly@hplred.HP.COM (Diana Egly) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: lovers and friends Message-ID: <20940006@hplred.HP.COM> Date: 1 Dec 89 18:25:15 GMT References: <136@boston-harbor.lucid.com> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 16 I almost didn't recognize you as a hummingbird, but the form does suit you well... I wonder if part of the reason that people long for soulmates rather than a circle of friends is that they've been trained to think of and imagine what having a soulmate must be like... We don't get much training, or insight into, close knit circles of friends... Sometimes I think that people who work to have the kinds of relationships that you have, need to speak up about how it is. To share the vision and the reality. Because otherwise a lot of people will never understand... Consider this an open invitation to talk... Diana egly@hplabs Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!sage.cc.purdue.edu!ibs From: ibs@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Lawrence daffner) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: The lurker speaks. Message-ID: <3362@sage.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 7 Dec 89 20:00:38 GMT Reply-To: ibs@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Lawrence daffner) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 33 A tentative voicce calls out from a cozy corner near the fireplace. It it me, a young (19 year old) male who is very much moved by these stories. "My name? that's not important right now. what is important is that I have my chance to tell of the creuel tricks of fate that bring me here." "I would first like to say thanks to all, for being a family to me. My real family doesn't relate to me, but it seems you all will, because we share a common base. And thank you also for tolerance. There's so little left outside." "My story is very similar to the rest, only in my case, it's the deepness. I relate to people, but can't find the one I really need in my life. I am searching for a soul mate- a special person who I can tell anything to. I talk at people, and they talk back, but it's not the same. I need a person to react with, not just talk. Many are the times I have needed a shoulder to cry on, but it wasn't there. Oh, once I thought I almost found that person, but after one long interaction, it was no longer there. She backed off, and I was crushed. " "Oh, well. I guess I'm doomed to be a perpetual wanderer. Many of us are hereit seems. I just wish that I had found that someone. I am still going to keep looking for this soulmate of mine, But it seems the search is fruitless. I just don't think it was meant to be." "there have been others, people that seemed to be drawn in. But as is dictated by my nature, they must get farther away. It seems that the few people who aren't afraid of closeness are drawn to people who don't really need it. If there's anyone out in the neighborhood who feels the same way, maybe we can get together after closing to discuss it together. I am in need of this contact but can't find it. " "Oh well, Here's to my partners in time and purpose. May we all find our soulmate before its too late. " "Oh, and my name? You can just call me solitaire" Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!bu-cs!austin From: austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Callahan's on IRC Message-ID: <44135@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 89 23:07:19 GMT References: <1989Dec7.214313.2400@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Sender: daemon@bu-cs.BU.EDU Organization: Boston University College of Engineering Lines: 19 In-reply-to: stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu's message of 7 Dec 89 21:43:13 GMT >>>>> On 7 Dec 89 21:43:13 GMT, stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu (Steven >>>>> Stadnicki,9B23 Woodstock,2680000,5186432664) said: stadnism> Well, after playing around a bit, I'd like to propose an unofficial stadnism> Callahan's channel on IRC; ch. 25, staffed by whoever's around at the stadnism> time, open 24 hours, etc. Title is up to whoever's on... Well, there is one problem with that. Being both a Callahan's regular and an IRC regular, I've gotten to know a lot of people that are on both. To do that, we need to do what has been suggested on alt.sex: Pick a number from 1 through 9 because any number above 10 is limited to 10 people. So instead of channel 25, I'm suggesting that we go to channel 9 (alt.sex will probably have channel 7). With IRC, we could have true punfests and/or tall tale nights. And if you *aren't* lucky enough to have IRC, pester, bug, annoy, do *anything* you must to get IRC at your server. Magyk (austin@bucsf.bu.edu,@bucsb.bu.edu,engc8vc@buacca.bu.edu) 700 Commonwealth Box 2094, Boston, MA 02215 "The Hammer has fallen." -- Niven and Pournelle, _Lucifer's Hammer_ Path: mit-eddie!mit-amt!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu (Steven Stadnicki,9B23 Woodstock,2680000,5186432664) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Callahan's on IRC Message-ID: <1989Dec8.002645.5179@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 8 Dec 89 00:26:45 GMT References: <44135@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 26 From article <44135@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler): > On 7 Dec 89 21:43:13 GMT, stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu (Me) said: me> Well, after playing around a bit, I'd like to propose an unofficial me> Callahan's channel on IRC; ch. 25, staffed by whoever's around at the me> time, open 24 hours, etc. Title is up to whoever's on... > > Well, there is one problem with that. Being both a Callahan's > regular and an IRC regular, I've gotten to know a lot of people that are on > both. To do that, we need to do what has been suggested on alt.sex: Pick > a number from 1 through 9 because any number above 10 is limited to 10 > people. So instead of channel 25, I'm suggesting that we go to channel 9 > (alt.sex will probably have channel 7). With IRC, we could have true > punfests and/or tall tale nights. And if you *aren't* lucky enough to have > IRC, pester, bug, annoy, do *anything* you must to get IRC at your server. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well, I had to go get it + compile it myself... it was worth it, though. My suggestion: how 'bout having ch. 9 as the main channel, for rather frenzied conversations, then if anyone wants to go someplace quieter, for a serious discussion, they can move it up to ch. 25... Looking forward to seeing you all there... Steven Stadnicki stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu "'E's a techie, but we likes 'im anyway." Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!t-phils From: t-phils@microsoft.UUCP (the Eternal Stranger) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: SF puns Message-ID: <9362@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 89 22:30:48 GMT References: <11770@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1989Dec1.052050.10271@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <9281@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Reply-To: t-phils@microsoft.UUCP (the Eternal Stranger) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 28 Gary Lewandowski (TA of Doom) writes: |stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: |>Jennifer writes: |>>"We really should write these down. Let's call a Clarke." she said, as a huge |>> Brin spread across her face. "It Kurtz me to see these wonderful puns lost |>> forever." |>> Jen-- |>I agree with Jen; we oughta Stasheff few of these away for future reFrenz... |Write them on a Card, and Niven let them get away. "Wright - that's it. I'm not lett-Ing you lot get away with Hogan this stream any more. I've kept quiet too long already, Morris the pity, and it's Bean a Longyear and I need to blow off some steam. I never thought that I'Drake up some of these myself - I thought I was above Aldiss stuff - but here I go, just like every other Thom, Dick and Harrison in the place. (I hope you don't think I'm being too Forward about it...) So much for silence, here I am Tolkien my head off - and I'll have you know, I'm a man who Brooks no interruptions. (You think this is bad? There's Farmer left where these came from...) Well - there's other folks I have to talk to, so Furnow I'll have to be leaVinge," he says, Edding for the bar... -- _________________________________________________________ | Phil Stracchino t-phils@microsoft.UUCP | | "What about me, it isn't fair | | I've had enough, now I want my share | | Can't you see, I want to live..." | | - Moving Pictures | | "If life was simple, everyone would be good at it." | | - The Eternal Stranger | \_________________________________________________________/ Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!t-phils From: t-phils@microsoft.UUCP (the Eternal Stranger) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Come on in! Summary: #define LURK off...? Message-ID: <9368@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 89 03:14:51 GMT Reply-To: t-phils@microsoft.UUCP (the Eternal Stranger) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 34 During a pause in the conversation in the Place, Alaric looks up with an abstracted expression, as though listening to some faint, far-off sound. After a few seconds, he smiles and glances around the table at the others sitting there. "If you'll excuse me for a moment?" he says quietly, with a quick nod of acknowledgement to Jilara, Magyk and the tabbifli, then gets up and walks over to the door. (Incidentally, he is no longer wearing the two-handed sword; it now leans against the wall behind the table.) Opening the door part-way, he looks intently out into the darkness and blowing snow. "I know you're out there, Ellen," he calls; "Come on in and join us! It's much warmer in here...." He almost closes the door, enough to keep the warmth in, but leaves it an inch or two ajar. (Fortunately, the wind has shifted, and the door is now on the lee side of the building, so no snow blows in.) Walking over to the bar, he pulls out a silver coin and tosses it to Mike. The coin, like all the others, metamorphoses into a dollar bill moments after leaving his hand. (This creates rather an odd effect, since it flies in a high ballistic arc as a tossed coin normally would, then transforms itself into paper and flutters almost straight down into Mike's waiting hand. Oddly enough, his hand is in precisely the right place to catch the falling bill, instead of being positioned to intercept the coin....) "Mike," he says, "when the young lady who's lurking outside wondering whether to come in makes up her mind and comes in, kindly inform her that her first one's on me...." With that, he returns to his table and resumes the conversation, idly scratching the tabbifli's back as he speaks. -- _________________________________________________________ | Phil Stracchino t-phils@microsoft.UUCP | | "What about me, it isn't fair | | I've had enough, now I want my share | | Can't you see, I want to live..." | | - Moving Pictures | | "If life was simple, everyone would be good at it." | | - The Eternal Stranger | \_________________________________________________________/ Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!samsung!uunet!microsoft!t-phils From: t-phils@microsoft.UUCP (the Eternal Stranger) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Forces, Vast and Mighty Keywords: Argh Message-ID: <9370@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 89 03:27:20 GMT References: <11873@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: t-phils@microsoft.UUCP (the Eternal Stranger) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 42 James Webster Birdsall writes: | The door opens and a thoroughly gloomy looking scarecrow in a green | jacket enters. He heads straight for the bar, forgets the name of what | he wants, and is forced to describe it to Mike. Having collected his | whatever-it-is of vodka and OJ, he steps up to the line and stands there | for a minute. .... | "I guess I'm going to have to toast Answers. May everyone find the | one they need." | | He throws the glass in without further ceremony and retreats to an | empty table in a corner, hoping that maybe somebody will come over and | talk. But, as he looks around, he realizes that most everybody is | sitting in groups of friends and that it's unlikely that anybody is | going to break off having a good time to talk to a source of such | intense gloom and bitterness. So he just sits and watches from the | shadows... "I'll second that. To answers, and finding them!" Alaric tosses his glass into the fireplace from where he sits, with a deceptively lazy-looking overhand snap. The glass whistles faintly as it streaks into the fireplace, dropping no more than a few inches in its flight, and explodes into a thousand glittering shards. He stands and walks up to the bar for a refill, handing Mike another of his metamorphosing silver coins, then turns and walks back to the table with what looks a lot like a Tequila Sunrise except for the faint wisps of steam rising from its surface. Part-way there, at his point of closest approach to the corner table (by a slightly indirect route, by the way) he turns towards the scarecrow, half-raises the steaming glass, and gestures with his other hand towards the table where he has been sitting with Jilara, Magyk and the tabbifli. "Care to join us?" he asks, then continues on his way back to his chair. [ok, so I see from later messages I'm a little late... I guess my net gateway was down. Again.] -- _________________________________________________________ | Phil Stracchino t-phils@microsoft.UUCP | | "What about me, it isn't fair | | I've had enough, now I want my share | | Can't you see, I want to live..." | | - Moving Pictures | | "If life was simple, everyone would be good at it." | | - The Eternal Stranger | \_________________________________________________________/