To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (46055 ) 6/9/2000 6:07:00 PM From: JC Jaros Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Okay, I'm back from a Gurdjieff level quest to discover this 'task bar'. Spending the night in the city (SF) with my wife, house sitting for a friend, I woke up early and just happened to catch Ed Zander (Joel Klein; whatever - same person) on CSPAN saying that Microsoft had performed an illegal operation and would be shut down. Watching the M$ response, I remain in continuing awe of watching Bill Gates blow it. If ever there was anyone in need of a 12 step progam, *this guy is it. --- Later that morning, I walked up one side of Haight st and down the other. It's been many years. --- On the same block as the free clinic (still there) near the tobacco store(?), independant entrepreneurs were hawking things like "green bud" and other things (no Giants tickets). One fellow sitting, looking up, seemingly avoiding direct solicitation of me, expressed a look of wanting to know what I was looking for. I thought about it for a short time and came up with "task bar?". He spoke, "huh?". I replied "You know, Windows?".
He pointed to another guy, who as it turns out was selling LSD and had never even *heard of 'task bar' but wanted me to come back and tell him if and when I found out. --- Before leaving the Haight (which is not where I found the task bar but did find this brew pub called Magnolia which is what I actually want for), I saw this place called "The People's Cafe". It had the cute minimalist profesionally created logo incorporating the peace sign, and then on the door, next to the "People's Cafe" welcome sign was another sign that said "Restrooms for customer use only". I stood there looking at that for the longest time. The only thing I could come up with was that whatever they were serving was causing their restroom to be in high demand, and that wasn't a good sign at all. --- Anyway, much later in the day back at home, it ends up that my 16 year old step son who HAS Windows 98 knows all about the taskbar, but since he never leaves the ICQ program, he never uses it. BTW, I swear, if GW Bush is elected and
we get some REAL law enforcement, the kind that goes after PEOPLE instead of BUSINESS, we have an entire country full of 16 year old boys using this ICQ thing to conspire with each other across state lines in any number of illegal hacking activities and frauds, which could result in a MASSIVE confiscation of PCs under the RICO act, flood the Federal court system and bring the U.S. to a halt. --- There is, I believe an informal collective, a 'borg' if you will, of tens of thousands of 16 year old boys running the whole show in real time with this ICQ thing, while multitasking Limp Biskit's 'Mission Impossible' theme over and over on their MP3 players. --- Sorry for the ramble. I could no way catch up with the messages on this thread. Out of curiosity, I clicked to see how long a Fredrick Smart reply that quoted back a rudedog post was. That became my ispiration. <g> -JCJ --- Edit: Plus the longer the posts, the greater demand on the server side and the better for - OT: SUNW. :)
