Re: HIP hip hooray
A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>" typed:
Hey, Zooko! You were the only Cypherpunk who made the article in the 'Independent' (by that blonde reporter who was wandering around), though Lucky Green was mentioned by name.
Wow. Oh how the mighty have fallen, from an adulatory spread in Wired to a mention in The Independent. And to think that Lucky was the fellow who was supposed to get the most benefit from the situation in the first place!
'"[hacking] can be a wonderful thing", explained Zooco, a member of the CypherPunks. "Pretty much every useful aspect of modern computing was devised by hackers -- like the Internet and email."'
So did she spell your name wrong, or were you using a pseudonym ;-) ?
I sound like an idiot, so I'm glad she mispelled my name. Also that's a pretty darn loose quote. The "--" there, for example, spans several sentences of conversation... Did the article print her e-mail address? Thanks, Z
At 11:52 AM 8/13/97 +0200, Zooko Journeyman wrote:
A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>" typed:
Hey, Zooko! You were the only Cypherpunk who made the article in the 'Independent' (by that blonde reporter who was wandering around), though Lucky Green was mentioned by name.
Wow. Oh how the mighty have fallen, from an adulatory spread in Wired to a mention in The Independent. And to think that Lucky was the fellow who was supposed to get the most benefit from the situation in the first place!
Lucky got much benefit from HIP. [What's the smiley for a *huge* grin?] --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/
--- On Aug 16, Lucky Green apparently wrote -----------------------------------
At 11:52 AM 8/13/97 +0200, Zooko Journeyman wrote:
A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>" typed:
Hey, Zooko! You were the only Cypherpunk who made the article in the 'Independent' (by that blonde reporter who was wandering around), though Lucky Green was mentioned by name.
Wow. Oh how the mighty have fallen, from an adulatory spread in Wired to a mention in The Independent. And to think that Lucky was the fellow who was supposed to get the most benefit from the situation in the first place!
Lucky got much benefit from HIP. [What's the smiley for a *huge* grin?]
Well you have two possibilities: :-D Wider happy face (or Mistrel singers) :-))) reeeel happy, big smile Always glad to be of help... Keep in touch and we'll meet again in 2001 (if not sooner, some people in the Netehrlands say that once every four years just isn't enough ;-)
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
--- and thus sprach: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> ------------------------ Ciao, Unicorn. -- ======= _ __,;;;/ TimeWaster on http://www.IAEhv.nl/users/hvdl ============== ,;( )_, )~\| Hans "Unicorn" Van de Looy PGP: 64 07 5D 4C 3F 81 22 73 ;; // `--; GSM: +31 653 261 368 52 9D 87 08 51 AA 35 F0 ==='= ;\ = | ==== Youth is not a time in life, it's a State of Mind! ========
Always glad to be of help... Keep in touch and we'll meet again in 2001 (if not sooner, some people in the Netehrlands say that once every four years just isn't enough ;-)
Rumours say it will be called HAL 2001 (hacking @ large) -- | Patrick Oonk - http://patrick.mypage.org/ - patrick@pine.nl | | PGP Key ID 0xDA2E93FA - Internic PO59 - <clicketyclick> | | Pine Internet B.V. Consultancy, installatie en beheer | | Tel: +31-70-3111010 - Fax: +31-70-3111011 - http://www.pine.nl/ |
Zooko Journeyman <zooko@xs4all.nl> writes:
A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>" typed:
Hey, Zooko! You were the only Cypherpunk who made the article in the 'Independent' (by that blonde reporter who was wandering around), though Lucky Green was mentioned by name.
Wow. Oh how the mighty have fallen, from an adulatory spread in Wired to a mention in The Independent. And to think that Lucky was the fellow who was supposed to get the most benefit from the situation in the first place!
His Real True Name is Lucky Orange. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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