From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 17:38:54 -0700 (PDT)
I can't think of much bad press, frankly. (The NSA guy's comment about Woodstock and trig homework, maybe, but that was more than countered by Bruce Sterling's closing talk at CFP and other talks. No big deal.)
When I thought back to where I was during Woodstock, I remembered that it took place in the summer. The only ones doing homework would have been those in summer school, not the nerds. Personally, I had just graduated from high school. A guy I was working with invited me to go with him to Woodstock, on the Thursday before the big weekend, but I didn't know what he was talking about. He was going with a bunch of people in a semi trailer. He never came back to work. At least, not that summer. I've often wondered what would have happened if I had accepted his offer. But you didn't have to go to Woodstock to do LSD. There was plenty of it in Cleveland in 1969. (Still is, from what I hear). However, I wasn't doing trig homework. I was assembling vacuum cleaners. tw