Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 18:07:06 PST Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (/\/\3d|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0057] POEM: Bonks. Fleeps. Doodledrons. ; mailart | {\bf Virtual Sex and other misconceptions.} When | discussing possible application areas, the popular | press never fails to ask about pornography. While | this probaby says more about the press' fascination | with sex than about VR's potential, many new | technologies, including the VCR, {\it do} often | survive early stages via niche pornography markets. | | In a broader sense, the press has done the same | disservice to VR that it did to artificial | intelligence. The researchers with the wildest claims | get the air time, and the rest of us are left to deal | with the unrealistic expectations. In fact, many | researcher are already shunning the term VR and using | labels such as "virtual environments" for their work. | | The popular Steven King film {\it Lawnmower Man} and | Timothy Leary's rantings about "electonic LSD" have | fueled a misconception that VR in some way involves | drugs, or produces a drug-like experience, which is | patently false. The press has also talked at length | about bypassing the current I/O technology and | establishing direct neural connections, as described | in the 1984 William Gibson novel, {\it Neuromancer,} | which popularized the term {\it cyberspace.} | | Randy Pausch, University of Virginia, | in "Hot Topics: Three Views of Virtual Reality", | IEEE Computer, Feb 1993, p80. I think the following is the first copylefted poem I've seen. (Jason's a nExtDude who wants so build some VR.) Actually there's haiku (by Bill Joy?) in the sources to "expreserve". Unfortunately I don't grep them at ftp.uu.net -- "vi" must not be free. I think I've freed the haiku before, but can't find it now. --strick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 01:12:41 -0600 From: Jason Asbahr To: strick@osc.versant.com Subject: A Poem Greetings, Striq! :) Thanks much for the TAZ info! I am studying it and will reply when I can be articulate... Already, it seems like Truth on tap... --- Bonks. Fleeps. Doodledrons. Things unspeakable speak to me In the dark, alone and unafraid, I greet them. Leather Goddesses upon high! They leap down, their whips flailing about in sudden wind and Land upon glittering crystal shelves, which aren't really, and hang there suspended in plexiglass disregard of the accepted laws of physics. Fuck You! they screech, gesturing at passing Physicists (floating by), whose confused faces are covered and revealed, covered and revealed, by their flapping white coats... Small pieces of paper flutter in the breeze, holding secrets, secret diagrams, explaining the true mechanics of the universe, but MECHanics charge too much, and who really trusts them anyway? Copyleft 1991 Jason Asbahr ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 15:04 GMT From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com> To: Fringeware To: surfpunk To: ARCANA To: Arachnet Subject: Mail Art Listings Dear Fringeoids, Dear Surfpunks, Dear Dwellers in Arcana, Dear Archanetters, I received in my snailmail box the hugest listing of international ongoing mail art shows, that I have ever seen. If you've ever wanted to get plugged into the International mail Art scene this is your chance send $2.00 to Ashley Parker Owens POB 597996 Chicago, IL 60659 And ask for _Global Mail_. 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Confusion to our enemies. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ From: ahawks (pinkerton floyd) Subject: r3: /\/\3[>|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 13:10:16 MST Mark Baldwin, not Bob, says: | |a question which probably shows my age [?]: | |how doez one pronounce agr1ppa? pleaze explain where i can |find this information instead of flaming, if it exists some |where... | |-mArK. well, you can obviously e-pronounce it, do you really need to pronounce it? how do u say..........31|+3...... [that is a real word, btw] usually the 1 is an l, like in k-k001.....k-k001 is cool sarcasm.... ie, B1FF is k-k001.....00's are o's....3's are e's....+'s are t's.... |'s can be i's.....[> |> |) can all be d's....|) can be p, when (| is q...|< is k....>| is e-dyslexia....$ is s, esp. when refer-ing to compu$erve... ! can by i's or l's.....@ is a, sometimes even @narch-e... # used to be E, i think, or soething, but I don't see that 1... * is O in different cyber-dialects...[ is c in dialect 2, err too... \/\/ is w, /\/\ is m.../-\ is a, |-| is h, |3 is b, |_ can be l, but that's |_/-\/\/\3.....|\| is n, |\|||/| is trendy music... \/ is v, ob\/iously....>< is x....z is often = s (warez), e is often = a (tha), c is often = k (|<-|<001), f = ph (phun), ph = f (fone)... it's just |<001 31|+3 pc for the |) ( generation. | most of this died c. 84-85, but B1FF and k001 survive for god gnows why. 0|<, |\|0\/\/ |<|[>[>|3Z g0 & s3+ ^ a|\| 31|+3 ph|1+3r. ^ really obscure cave drawings. -- andy ______________________________ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 14:20:43 PST From: mark@ganymede.apple.com (Mark Baldwin) Subject: Re: r3: /\/\3[>|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3 ()|<...| |<^[11||Da |)1(|<=D |_|P oN +Ha+...| _|u$+ \/\/Az|/|'+ $|_|r3 1|= 1+ \/\/uZ +h3 $a/\/\3... -/\/\ / |~ |<. ______________________________