signed fictitious

[rone]

Via bryant:

Invent a memory of me and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it's something that's never happened. Then, of course, post this to your journal and see what people would like to remember of you, only the universe failed to cooperate in making it happen so they had to make it up instead.

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[mskala.livejournal.com]

Trouble down at the computer club. I walked into the back room, noted without surprise that I was by thirty years the youngest person present, and took in the scene: V., sitting in a dangerously overloaded office chair like a ton of mud, staring at the screen of the old 386 with an expression of grim determination on her fat features, and a circle of elderly men standing around watching her. One whispered to me "She's looking for the To: address."

I tried to reason with her. I told her that Usenet doesn't have To: addresses. I told her that if you want to send a message to someone specific instead of the newsgroup, you send it as email. I told her that if you want to respond in public to someone else's article, your newsreader creates an attribution line. Nothing worked. Strange, disconnected phrases bubbled up from somewhere within the bulk - "...worked with my QWK reader five years ago..."; "...Usenet is all Americanized anyway..."; "...don't understand this Linux thing...". Finally I got fed up and told her that if she didn't move her ass pretty soon it was going to become permanently stuck in the chair; but even that didn't have any noticeable effect.

So I got everybody else out of there, secured the room, and sent in ronebofh with a bottle of Tic-Tack.