Re: geek pride day 98!

Steve Nordquist (signa@tfs.net)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 20:31:56 -0600


Joachim Feise wrote:

> http://owi.com/geekpride/

Compelling URI. (sigh) Everyone's a multinational with multiple charters now.Tell
me how it is that I can listen to C64 songs and remakes, enjoy them
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/aminet/mods/chip/
and become embarassed when showing them in front of an Amiga user group,
but bring them to an ACM meeting and feel nothing but pride?

Spoon sound (Nederland; PC, Amiga)
http://zaba.simplenet.com/mod/songs/by-letter/s.shtml (a near miss)
(see Slurpeemix...) made it apparent that samples of 10-24k
could be ten times better music than those with .02 to 13k (8bit) samples), but
it isn't as significant a difference. Was it only that the ACM liked my ideas
about Cht'hulhu, so older things fit in better, or does Martha Stewart have
something to say about the comfortable environment a few hardened 8bit
mcus can build into a social occasion?