Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 23:34:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Inside track on the whole world



The Day the World Began
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... according to Microsoft was August 24th.  That day I happened to be
attending a training session at Unicef along with high school and college
students from across the US, and from 26 other countries, as part of
another conference.  We were in New York City and the signs of this new
world beginning were everywhere.  Every time I would go into a Staples to
make copies or something I would have to explain to whoever came in with
me that Windows 95 was just a disk.  It was almost embarrassing, except
why should I be embarrased?  Is it my Microsoft?  Yet, to see (the
declaration: "The World begins Thursday, August 24th)" and know... it
brought with it a complicity similar to that I felt when reading Emerson's
"are they my poor?" 

	Shall we study post-microsoftiality?  There are probably futures 
in it.  Let's consult the academic stockbrokers.  

	The inside track on the whole world .... I personally enjoyed 
this post.  I mean I savored it, repeated it in my mind while walking away 
from the computer.  Some people were hoping it was a joke so that they 
could laugh ("at").   Others "totally got" it and laughed "with".  Some 
of us still don't know whether the "blatant troll" shares are going up or 
down.  

	Speaking of Halowe'en (and not forgetting microchips), did anyone
hear the Capitol Steps Halowe'en special?  Those of you who remember that
brilliant paper from the GWU psycho-poco conference on the Oklahoma Bomb,
which discussed the paranoia of the militia movements ....  well the
Capitol steps treated the topic in song.  If anyone taped it I would
really like a copy. 

thank you -- Aravinda 


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"Waiting for a job, I passed the first year of an M.A. in English 
Literature.  It was just an excuse to keep myself occupied. " -- Kumud 
Pawde, "The Story of my Sanskrit"            http://www.columbia.edu/~ap191
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