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June Gloom...Put on a Happy Face
Birthday Greetings
My, oh my, how the net is growing! It seems like just yesterday when I first
set up my web page and not a full year ago. That would make this a first
birthday for this site, still a baby, but approaching the terrible two's.
Was This Ever "In"?
When I set my page up, Wired magazine called a personal web page "Wired".
In the May issue, Wired called personal web pages "Tired" and
personal web servers "Wired". For the uninitiated, wired means
basically "What's In", while tired means "What's Out".
It's funny how a select group of people decide what should be considered
as good, when, as Shakespeare put it, "That which we call a rose by
any other name would smell as sweet". I know, that has nothing to do
with what's popular and what's not, but I just wanted to quote the immortal
bard.
Lighten Up
The thing is, I don't want to write another "down" column. I want
to be bright, cheerful and "hughmorous". Next month I might get
back to being an angry young, whoops, old man. But for now I'm that happy-go-lucky
fella I was in college, those several decades ago...Man, was it that long
ago? What about those war protests and the fear of nuclear annihilation?
What about the country divided with seemingly unresolvable differences?
What about coming of age in a country that still referred to half its inhabitants
as foreigners, including the native Americans. ("They're from India,
aren't they? That's why they're called Indians.")
He's Only Outside...Lookin' In
The strange thing about the beginning of months is that it seems that something
strange is always happening in the world or at home at these times and this
is the time I write these things. On May 31st Timothy Leary died and I can't
get that Moody Blues song out of my head, and I haven't hear it for at least
a decade. He was an interesting man, and was certainly a part of the 60's
culture. Was he a villain or a hero? I suppose the answer to that one depends
on your point of view. I interviewed him in the mid 70s and was impressed
with his mind and the positive message he was putting forth about space
colonization. Lately he was turning to cyberspace. Here was a man know for
altered states, so it seems natural for him to be involved in the netherworld
of computer communication.
Note in Bottle
Writing this monthly piece is, to me, much like putting a note in a bottle
and dropping it into the ocean. I'm never sure if it got anywhere, or if
the recipient actually could understand the words. I have received a few
replies about past columns and am adding a link on this page to my email
address right here. Write
me if you want to let me know that my message got out into that cyberspace
ocean. Just a simple note will suffice, like "What are you talking
about?" or just "HUH?"
'till next time. Catch you in cyberwhatever....
Hugh Peebles_____________________________________June 1996
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