I'll go one further and make a stupid, unfounded prediction:
HUGE stock market crash in October of 1999 similar in magnitude
to the market crashes of October 1929 and October 1987.
In September 1999 I'm sticking all my money in a sack and moving out
into the Arizona desert until March 2000. At least. Maybe I'll move
to Canada instead.
I loved Rohit's advice on flying and the Y2K problem: "More than
anything, you really don't want to be on an airplane at 11:59pm on
December 31, 1999."
Oh, and Wayne, I did check, and you were in fact the 13th person to join
FoRK, but you outlasted Eve Schooler, Rajit Manohar, and Greg Davis.
And greg@marble.com -- Rohit, what was his last name? Byrd? Bird?
Bueller? -- was never a FoRKmember but was on the list that predated FWF
which itself was the list that predated FoRK. Oy.
FoRK is sort of a misnomer now, I guess, unless we're extremely liberal
with our definition of the word "friend." I still think we should
change the list name to NINJA:
http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK-archive/may98/0045.html
Speaking of friends, does anyone else find the UI at
to be annoying? I need a faster-paced network accelerator. Six degrees
is like decaf.
Speaking of six degrees, thank you Lisa for setting me straight on when
it's good to be selfish. See, I knew that by being sweeping my
generalization was false, I just needed a good argument for justifiable
selfishness. You're right, sometimes it is necessary.
Looking through the FoRK archives I'm noticing once again how horribly
un-future-proofed the storage format is. Shame on us for assuming that
this dies with us.
Of course, I could do with deleting the spring 96 archives -- my first
post ever compared the Internet culture to the C.B. culture?! Ugh
http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK-archive/spring96/0033.html
and then there was the repost of Ernie's politically correct guide to
unix
http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK-archive/spring96/0034.html
and so on and so on and so on. A young Timothy Byars, then at
overdrive.com, even posted a cute little self-description
http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK-archive/spring96/0040.html
> A Los Angeles native cruises Huntingtion Beach in his Mustang Cobra
> stewed on Maragrita's on a balmy 85 degree day, taking pictures of
> bikini clad locals with his Kodak digital camera.
So is FoRK, I mean NINJA, different now? Sure. But I think it's for
the better. If only we could (hint hint) have a digest mode...
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