From the New World

[Grant White]

There's that pesky V for victoria again. I haven't (for shame) cruised 
through V for a while, damn life, work and all those other books which 
justc keep getting published but I heard the one about the phantom albino 
alligators (although geographical accuracy called them crocodiles) and 
had a little chuckle to myself. I wonder if TRP had anything to do with 
those apalling ninja turtles that wandered the sewers of television not 
so long ago? I bet there's a link, or lunk somewhere.

Hartwin's comments re cyburbia are kinda apt. While I do myself have a 
nifty BBQ, and a computer (very old) and an education of sorts, it would 
seem odd that a discussion group of this nature would attract people of a 
not dissimilar ilk. However a wander through the darker side of the 
usenet and the growing plethora of exploitative and worthless marketing 
on the web could argue against the lucky few enjoying the the trappings 
of success. ICI and the lightglobe cartels have got nothing on Gates and 
Murdoch et al. 

Cheers,

Grant.

(I've really got to do something about my sig file don't I?)

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On Tue, 26 Dec 1995 Jhildt at aol.com wrote:

> Hi, Grant.
> 
> Recovering well from Christmas, I hope.  Nothing like a dip in the pool to
> soothe things out on the day after, I'd think.  But then I got a pair of
> gloves (plus lots of swell books and a 1-Gig hard drive), just the thing for
> our weather here on the NE coast of the not-so-new world 'bout this time.  
> 
> And speaking of new worlds, I agree completely that an incredible aspect of
> this ww-net is the simultaneity of communication, with space and time-zone no
> object.  That, and the fact that from billions we cull small groups as if
> chatting over a back fence (complete with kibutzers) about some common
> interest.  I told my brother (not yet on the net) the other day that I felt
> like I had the world in my living room for a chat.  If that sounds
> stary-eyed, it's because I am, no apologies.  I grew up with Marshall McLuhan
> and Bucky Fuller as prophets.  Now_this_is a global village!
> 
> There's an interesting cyber-si-fi book by Bruce Sterling called_Islands In
> The Net_.  It describes a world, not too many years into the next millennium,
> much like the one we're actually starting to get.  Everybody's digitally
> linked, or at least the "haves" are.  The difference, at least so far, is the
> ominous corporate control of "the Net" described in the book.  We'd better
> watch out, or we'll get a world someone else thinks we derserve.
> 
> Enough soapbox.  Sorry.  
> 
> To keep to the thread of P., I'm just finishing_V._, with Old Stencil in
> Malta in a blaze of tying up loose ends, or so it seems.  Now here's an odd
> fact: "The main physical characteristic of Malta  is a well-defined
> escarpment that bisects it along the  Victoria Lines Fault." [E.B.]  Now I
> knew Vicky was behind all of this, but really!
> 
> Hope everyone got what they wanted.
> 
> Best,  
>              Jeffrey in Nueva Jork
>