that's terabits of terabits of memory - as well as the details of Burt and Loni's divorce. Brains just don't have enough space to handle all these bits. And so I decided to learn shiatsu massage - as a means of thawing memory frozen inside the body."
I thought about this. The concept of body as hard drive seemed very plausible to me.
I couldn't believe we had been enemies for so long. Trek on, woman!
* * *
So Dad's working - for Michael. Michael is hiring people. That is so random. The world is indeed chaotic.
* * *
Space Needle
1962
Mattel
C+++++++++++
silver lens sunglasses
Redmond
Schaumberg, III.
Interstate 80/287, NJ
Dallas Galleria/LBJ Fwy.
Torrey Pines/UTC Sorrento Valley, Ca.
Metroplex/lrvine, Ca.
King of Prussia/Route 202
Tandy Corp., Fort Worth, Texas 76107
relentless . . .
crispy . . .
fluids . . .
200 years from now
Ebola Reston
Marburg
Hepatitis non-A/non-B
Ebola Zaire
Sabia
Michelangelo
Machupo
Rift Valley
Hanta
TUESDAY
A FedEx pack arrived today with letters for everybody: Roommates®Geek House followed by our postal address. Talk about news. Michael's offering all of us jobs at a start-up company he's assembled down in Silicon Valley.
Excerpts from Michael's letter:
. . . People our age are abandoning the tech megacultures in droves, starting up their own companies, or joining small, content-based start-ups. There's a recruiting frenzy going on . . . multimedia craziness . . . and the big companies that aren't minting money are hemorrhaging brains. It's intellectual Darwinism.
. . . The five of you are rudderless at the moment. Is now not the time to take a risk and jump into the future?
. . . Some say that the world is visibly cleaving into a race of information Haves, and a race of information Have-Nots. Whatever. Let me simply say that history is happening, it's happening now and it is happening here, in Silicon Valley and in San Francisco.
. . . Tell me, are you seriously going to be at Microsoft 20 years from now? 15? 10? 5? Or even 2 years? At what point do you decide that you have to take your own life into your own hands?
. . . At the very least, you'll make an okay salary if you work with me; at best, you'll gain equity in something that might become very valuable; I have an idea for a product that I think will be very popular. And wouldn't it be amusing for all of us to be together again!
. . . I must have your decisions immediately. Do call.
Most definitely yours,
Michael
* * *
Michael has designed this amazing code and the scary part is completed already - the proprietary work that could only have sprouted from Michael's brain - Object Oriented Programming from another galaxy. And he's been doing it in his spare time - as a game called Oop!. He offered me a job coding, as opposed to just testing . . . who knows how long it'll take me to move up to coding at Microsoft?
He sent us a rough draft of a product description he's written plus ERS - Engineering Requirements Specifications. Herewith:
Oop!
Oop! is a virtual construction box - a bottomless box of 3D Lego-type bricks that runs on IBM or Mac platforms with CD-ROM drives. If a typical Lego-type brick has eight "bumps"; an Oop! brick can have from eight to 8,000 bumps, depending on the precision demanded by the user.
Oop! users can virtually fly in and out of their creations, or they can print them out on a laser printer. Oop! users can build their ideas on a "pad" or they can build their ideas in 3D space, a revolving space station; running ostriches . . . whatever. Oop! allows users to clone structures, and add these clones onto each other, permitting easy megaconstructions that use little memory. Customized Oop! blocks can be created and saved. The ratios and proportions of Oop! bricks can also be customized by the user in much the same way typefaces are scaled.
Imagine:
"Oopenstein" - flesh-like Oop! bricks or cells, each with ascribed
biological functions that allow users to create complex
I thought about this. The concept of body as hard drive seemed very plausible to me.
I couldn't believe we had been enemies for so long. Trek on, woman!
* * *
So Dad's working - for Michael. Michael is hiring people. That is so random. The world is indeed chaotic.
* * *
Space Needle
1962
Mattel
C+++++++++++
silver lens sunglasses
Redmond
Schaumberg, III.
Interstate 80/287, NJ
Dallas Galleria/LBJ Fwy.
Torrey Pines/UTC Sorrento Valley, Ca.
Metroplex/lrvine, Ca.
King of Prussia/Route 202
Tandy Corp., Fort Worth, Texas 76107
relentless . . .
crispy . . .
fluids . . .
200 years from now
Ebola Reston
Marburg
Hepatitis non-A/non-B
Ebola Zaire
Sabia
Michelangelo
Machupo
Rift Valley
Hanta
TUESDAY
A FedEx pack arrived today with letters for everybody: Roommates®Geek House followed by our postal address. Talk about news. Michael's offering all of us jobs at a start-up company he's assembled down in Silicon Valley.
Excerpts from Michael's letter:
. . . People our age are abandoning the tech megacultures in droves, starting up their own companies, or joining small, content-based start-ups. There's a recruiting frenzy going on . . . multimedia craziness . . . and the big companies that aren't minting money are hemorrhaging brains. It's intellectual Darwinism.
. . . The five of you are rudderless at the moment. Is now not the time to take a risk and jump into the future?
. . . Some say that the world is visibly cleaving into a race of information Haves, and a race of information Have-Nots. Whatever. Let me simply say that history is happening, it's happening now and it is happening here, in Silicon Valley and in San Francisco.
. . . Tell me, are you seriously going to be at Microsoft 20 years from now? 15? 10? 5? Or even 2 years? At what point do you decide that you have to take your own life into your own hands?
. . . At the very least, you'll make an okay salary if you work with me; at best, you'll gain equity in something that might become very valuable; I have an idea for a product that I think will be very popular. And wouldn't it be amusing for all of us to be together again!
. . . I must have your decisions immediately. Do call.
Most definitely yours,
Michael
* * *
Michael has designed this amazing code and the scary part is completed already - the proprietary work that could only have sprouted from Michael's brain - Object Oriented Programming from another galaxy. And he's been doing it in his spare time - as a game called Oop!. He offered me a job coding, as opposed to just testing . . . who knows how long it'll take me to move up to coding at Microsoft?
He sent us a rough draft of a product description he's written plus ERS - Engineering Requirements Specifications. Herewith:
Oop!
Oop! is a virtual construction box - a bottomless box of 3D Lego-type bricks that runs on IBM or Mac platforms with CD-ROM drives. If a typical Lego-type brick has eight "bumps"; an Oop! brick can have from eight to 8,000 bumps, depending on the precision demanded by the user.
Oop! users can virtually fly in and out of their creations, or they can print them out on a laser printer. Oop! users can build their ideas on a "pad" or they can build their ideas in 3D space, a revolving space station; running ostriches . . . whatever. Oop! allows users to clone structures, and add these clones onto each other, permitting easy megaconstructions that use little memory. Customized Oop! blocks can be created and saved. The ratios and proportions of Oop! bricks can also be customized by the user in much the same way typefaces are scaled.
Imagine:
"Oopenstein" - flesh-like Oop! bricks or cells, each with ascribed
biological functions that allow users to create complex
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