Subj : Mystic Pi Year of the Rabbit To : All From : Mystic Pi BBS Date : Thu Oct 19 2023 02:02 am _________________________________________ / Only the fittest survive. The \ | vanquished acknowledge their | | unworthiness by placing a classified ad | | with the ritual phrase "must sell -- | | best offer," and thereafter dwell in | | infamy, relegated to discussing gas | | mileage and lawn food. But if | | successful, you join the elite sodality | | that spends hours unpurifying the | | dialect of the tribe with arcane talk | | of bits and bytes, RAMS and ROMS, hard | | disks and baud rates. Are you | | obnoxious, obsessed? It's a modest | | price to pay. For you have tapped into | | the same awesome primal power that | | produces credit-card billing errors and | | lost plane reservations. Hail, | | postindustrial warrior, subduer of | | Bounceoids, pride of the cosmos, keeper | | of the silicone creed: Computo, ergo | | sum. The force is with you -- at 110 | | volts. May your RAMS be fruitful and | | multiply. | | | \ -- Curt Suplee, "Smithsonian", 4/83 / ----------------------------------------- \ \ // // (") (") *(__) (__)* --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145) .