At 10:10 AM 6/16/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I wish Declan well, really. But his frequent name-dropping about soirees he's been invited to, bigwigs he's had power lunches with...well, I think the evolution has been set in motion.
Foo ... On a list with several millionares, people who make the New York Times Magazine cover, people who get in the Times for successfully suing the NSA, college students who get covered on National Public Radio, people who were in Wired before it was c001, people who drop in on Esther in New York because they'll be too busy to see her at Hackers', people who were Xanadudes or SGML hackers decades before the Web caught on, people who were on the Well before that Grateful Dead lyricist got there, various wizards of speed and time, folks who have Japanese tv crews show up for their parties and already know Tim Leary when he drops... by, I'd say we have enough people who are or know Silicon Valley insiders to really complain much when people from the Other Coast talk about who _they_ had lunch with :-) # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)