ObConspiracy content: high. They are coming to take me away, take me away! Clinton's black helicopters are swooping low over my house. What should I do? Yes, this has nothing to do with coding in C, or even coding in Java, but it's too good a story not to share with you. My hilltop house, in the Santa Cruz mountains, lies directly between Monterey and San Jose. His Excellency is landing tonight in Monterey--probably has just done so, judging by the sudden increase in air traffic--to dedicate tomorrow a "defense conversion" of the former Fort Ord to "Cal State Monterey Bay," a new state college. (In California there are three tiers of colleges: the 9 campuses of the University of California system (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSC, UCSB, UCSD, etc.), the twenty-some "Cal State" schools, and some ungodly number of Community Colleges.) Anyway, lots of choppers flying directly over my house, at fairly low altitude. Maybe I could spell out a Cypherpunks message in white stones in my driveway, or maybe just a rose? He'll be choppering from Monterey to Alameda tommorrow, after lunch, so I need to think of something to prepare for him. I'm tempted to try to take a photo with my telescope, but the choppers flying with him might think I had a Redeye or Stinger or something from the weapon shops of Isher, and send me back at least a visit by the Praetorians, so I'll avoid "looking dangerous" in my back yard as the choppers pass overhead. (I find it hard to believe what the scribblers are saying, that this is the first visit by a sitting President to Monterey in 100 years. What with Carmel and Big Sur nearby, kind of hard to believe, eh?) --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."