| | It's the stuff dreams are made of. Old computer equipment, that is. I just dream about someday getting rid of all my out-dated crap and seeing which dead Mob leader is buried at the bottom of the pile. (letter removed at request of attributed author)
Didn't Scotty beam all the Tribbles into a Klingon warp engine or something? I'm sure Klingon's don't smell fragrant, but can you image the odor those little furballs would give off after they were incinerated? Next up, Dilbert meets Locutus: Date: Tuesday, 18-Feb-97 08:15 PM
From: Tom Levesque
Subject: borg, star trek
I read your "Star trek litmus test" article. Good stuff, as always. Although, personally, I would throw out the first 4 paragraphs. Or use them for some other article. They just delay you from getting to the point. In fact, they seem to steer me away from what you end up talking about. But the criticism is minor. Really, you just had me pondering about all this internet collectivity. It's really just very star trek in the borg sense. Let's see, the Borg are this collective of minds all united to doing tasks together. Hmn.. sounds frighteningly like what the scientists and prof's who first built the internet wanted to do. "We wanna share some data, so we can all work on the same thing". Hmnnn. Okay. But there are inherent evils to this whole connectivity concept, as the borg evidence. In fact, it's reassuring to me to see how scared characters were of the borg in a recent Voyager episode. It's frighteningly familiar to the way the internet is expanding. A couple of norwegiens (or whatever, you do the research) design html and get the ability to do some cool networking stuff. And soon enough, the corporate world gets wind and is dying to get a piece of the marketing action. And pretty soon everyone else has to play "catch up" and is forced by necessity to join the online community. You can't be in a technological job and NOT have access anymore. So now we're dependent on this technological bastard child we've created. Okay, well, enough cynicism for now. Just felt like yammering. Peace, love and trail mix.
Tom
Tom's obviously not wasting enough time browsing the Internet at work. Here's a nice one to wrap it up: Date: Tuesday, 11-Feb-97 12:44 AM
From: JEFFNIXX@aol.com
Subject: Ok,
You must be pretty messed up huh ? Don't worry, me too. And on any other day I would not have it any other way.
Hey -- this guy's right on! Why can't I get more encouraging feedback like this? | |
