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go buy a ZX81.
I just had too. How did you change after reading Pattern Recognition? It's that strong a book. I was wisked back to the mid eighties, locked away in my bedroom one summer whilst the family lounged in the sun and my mates were out kicking around a ball. I had been loaned a new ZX81 by a school master friend of my fathers. He'd taken a 2 week holiday and agreed to lend me this thing. I went through the manual, before returning to school and hitting the sole computer, a Research Machines 380Z every lunch break in the maths lab. Following up on the novel, back in 2007, I purchased a fully working Sinclair ZX81 off Ebay. Jeez, that manual was hard work second time round.  Further fuelled my desire to go retro, I later purchased a Dragon 32 and then a Commodore Amiga A500 - my techno youth, with the odd BBC Micro thrown in for good measure... oh, and a Sinclair Spectrum 48K and some Atari ST gaming. |
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Oh yeah, I went in search of a F:F:F and found this place
 The start of my bitter sweet technocandy addiction. Thanx |
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I bought a J.P. Gaultier version of the MA-1 jacket (rather than a Rickson's)
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I can't picture the MA-1 and Googling doesn't seem right, somehow. Kind of thing I'll need to happen caross, see on a friend then try on for size. Any pics?
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Here's Gibson wearing one:
http://www.mardecortesbaja.com/buzzma1baja.JPG |
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I started calling things "time sinks" because of Cayce's recollection of Damian's feeling about Caller ID's and Answering Machines.
______________________________________________________________ ...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal ...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP |
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I never looked at Legos the same, and I felt that someone had finally done some kind of artistic memorial justice to 911.
Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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me too...  ____________________________ Future First Lady of Cyberspace Green Robot World the Canadian half of Minobot! |
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 --- Reading, meanwhile, is an activity subsequent to writing - more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. |
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Gawd. Lookin old. He should do a bio flick of Vincent Price. Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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Bill Murray is cool, you. And he's your age!
--- Reading, meanwhile, is an activity subsequent to writing - more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. |
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Yeah, but A) I got treatment for my severe cystic acne in time to keep my face from looking 45 when I was 21, B) I have way more hair than he does or ever did, and C) he looks way better old than I do, and I ain't bad for 52. Respect! And... he really WOULD do an awesome Vincent in some groovy biopic. I should go read up on Vinent's life. Bet it's a doozy. Betcha he used to crash MENSA parties in a dunce cap. Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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He ate MENSA members members.
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I remember that! Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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Fortunately the members all took roofies and do not.
--- Reading, meanwhile, is an activity subsequent to writing - more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. |
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That's only in the movie version, where Brown delivers the irradiated money to the fundy church in north Idaho and spikes their Holy Water w/ benzodiazepine, of which Brown seems to have endless supply. Meanwhile, the Old Man spikes Brown's hair gel with aerosol MDA, and the movie ends with them hauling down the road in the big truck like Merry Pranksters Reborn. Why the fundy church was so popular with MENSA members is one of those things that attracts Bigend's interest... Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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The fundy Church was interesting because the greatest marketing meme ever was Christianity!
Duh. And it's all in the text anyway, with Milgrim going off on the single bandwidth theory and all, and then juxtaposed with Bigend's theories on marketing. It's all so totally clear, I say! In truth, I don't think anyone has made this point yet about the book. But Milgrim's religion dreams and reading map directly to Bigend's marketing which maps onto the conservative US of A meme running like a rampant Uncle Sam avatar over the whole of the novel. --- Reading, meanwhile, is an activity subsequent to writing - more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. |
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Dude, that's deep.
Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher |
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I know. I almost fell into the a Borgesian reference spiral, should such a thing exist. otherwise, it was likely my toilet.
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