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To: David Lawrence who wrote (9682)	11/22/1997 1:57:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

....get done with their butts? Do I detect a recurring theme? RFLOL..Until he said that, those church members didn't realize how lucky they were he was leaving the state. Re Gold Hill..no kidding, those town council members were sure taken advantage of..: (The Town Council was also displeased that she sold Mary Kay cosmetics while on duty.) Gold Hill is right on I-5 in Southern Oregon. The only buildings I recall are a Star Mart-type gas station (on East side of freeway) and an ice cream stand (West side of freeway). Excellent ice cream, very big servings..a must stop on a hot day..-G- DK

To: David Lawrence who wrote (9682)	11/22/1997 11:48:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

Comdex gets a little funky with Village People's help// The Village People help Comdex '97 get a little funky// Parties, plastic bags and piles and piles of press releases make up a hip trade show Austin American-Statesman Fri, Nov 21 1997 I spent time looking around at all the things I hadn't seen yet at Comdex '97 in Las Vegas. The show is split into three big venues _ the Convention Center area with some pavi lions, the Hilton convention center area and a large area at the Sands. I walked and walked and walked some more and these were, in a hurried four- or five-hour stretch, the impressions I got: Everything, according to the marketing people at Comdex, is "exploding." DVD is "exploding." LCD flat-screen monitors are "exploding.' ' Sony's WebTV Plus is "exploding." Flash RAM cards for digital cameras are "exploding." The only things that aren't exploding, it seems, are weapons-grade explosives. Fujitsu had a weird Santa Claus workshop booth. Gateway 2000 had a cow pasture booth that I spent exactly 4.6 secondsPeople, Back pageContinued from D1iting. Creative Labs (makers of Sound Blaster audio cards) had an incredible sound demo room, lots of giveaways and many cool games on display with surround-sound . A macho, macho party This is the difference between a good trade show and a garden-variety one: There's a company at Comdex called Adaptec. I had no idea who they were Wednesday night and I still don't, so I'll refer to the Media Companion: According to it, they make things like "AAA-130 Series array adapters (PCI-to-Wide Ultra SCSI) for entry-level NT and NetWare servers." Uh-huh. The only reason I know the company's name is because it threw a party Wednesday that I sneaked into with the help of a PR person and some techies from California. They were paying me back for getting them into a smaller cocktail party with my single invitation. Adaptec rented a huge ballroom at Treasure Island and had a big disco party going on, complete with a semi-open bar. We danced to a weird, funky '70s music revue that included audience participation _ "We Are Family " and some Parliament Funkadelic sung by women and men with big wigs and male dancers without shirts who could best be described as "Lord of the Dance-esque." But the big draw was THE VILLAGE PEOPLE! They came, they saw, they YMCA'd. I shook hands with "The Soldier in Fatigues." His hand was big, strong and a little clammy. The rumor (from a very reliable source I just met ) says Adaptec spent $150,000 to put on the Village People show. THAT is a good trade show. Comdex = food and drink If I come to Comdex next year, I definitely know what to do: stay at the same hotel (Lady Luck, classy and far away from the crazy, expensive theme hotels on the strip), resist the temptation to bring more money and attend more parties. The parties are important, I've come to realize. I thought everyone went to Comdex, went to their rooms, then went out and did the town. They're actually all at big meeting rooms eating appetizers and partying down. The same people who got me into the Village People show told me they'd spent every night at parties put on by different companies. They hadn't paid for a meal all week and they'd had access to open bars and open schmoozing. From what I hear, a PC magazine party was the scene of Bill Gates dancing. Next year, I'll ask around about party invitations. Tote that bag, lift that PR A big part of the culture at Comdex is what bag you carry. Because press releases and sales material can get heavy, lots of companies give out little tote bags or big plastic shopping bags in which to carry your things. Aside from IBM's neat suitcase carriers, the most common bags were Iomega, 3Com, Microsoft (all pervasive, even in this area) and Creative Labs. The bags are a little like showing allegiance, even though it's not much more than free advertising for the companies. And they're one of these evil necessities: You can't not have a bag to carry all the junk you get at Comdex. And press releases, my aching back has learned, can get very, very heavy. Must remember to check if my health insurance covers massage and/or chiropractic care for public relations trauma suffered on the job. o~~~ O

To: David Lawrence who wrote (9682)	11/22/1997 4:08:00 PM
From: Steve Parrino	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Attending the WSW broadcast last night was fun. About all I can add to Al Brumley's article below is that the only question Lou pitched to Ep with the least bit of heat on it was what he thought about the browser wars. Ep sort of mumbled right through it. Rukeyser bullish on Texas cliches 'Wall Street Week' kicks off season at SMU 11/22/97 By Al Brumley / The Dallas Morning News There was plenty of highfalutin talk at first, but when it came time to draw, Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser turned into the "OK, whatever" corral. The venerable show kicked off its 28th season Friday night with its first-ever Texas-based broadcast at Southern Methodist University's McFarlin Auditorium. (Or, as the announcer said, "The McFarlin Memorial Auditorium." Dang furiners.) About 1,500 people showed up at 7:30 for the broadcast, a fund-raiser for KERA-TV (Channel 13). Two giant video screens on either side of the stage allowed the well-heeled crowd to experience the modern-day phenomenon of going to a live event and watching it on television. Mr. Rukeyser, affable as always, entered twirling a riata, his head nearly swallowed up by a huge cowboy hat, a cartoon-large six-point star pinned to his lapel. "Howdy," he said, delighting the crowd. "You can call me L.R. Ewing." He proceeded to give Texas some big ol' slobbery sugar as he raved about the state's "vibrant economy, powered by ultra-modern technology and transportation." A video about Texas opened with a typical stock shot of livestock silhouetted against a setting sun. Texas, Mr. Rukeyser said in a voice-over, is "a land so vast that pioneering Americans drove their cattle over a seemingly endless landscape." Later came his two guests, American Airlines chairman Robert L. Crandall and Eckhard Pfeiffer, president and CEO of Houston-based Compaq Computer. But any hopes that Mr. Crandall would take off on the Wright Amendment fell flat. All he said was that the public decided in 1968 it wanted one major airport. "It made the right decision then," he said. "I think it'll make the right decision now." A few more questions about the futures of their prospective companies, and just like that, the 30-minute show was done. It happened so quickly, it even seemed to take KERA-FM (90.1) by surprise: The station ran a plug for the event 10 minutes after it was over. Oh yeah, one more thing: For the week, the Dow was up 308.59 to close at 7881.07. c 1997 The Dallas Morning News

To: David Lawrence who wrote (9682)	11/24/1997 6:37:00 PM
From: Jeffery E. Forrest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

* On August 7, police in Delaware, Ohio, and Thibodaux, La., reported that an alleged child molester received private justice. According to police in Ohio, the wife and mother-in-law of Rodney Hosler, 27, kidnapped him shortly after he was released from prison on child-molesting charges, tied him up, shaved his body, applied hot ointment to his genitals, inserted a cucumber into his body, scribbled "I am a child molester" on him, and dumped him naked in front of a pizza parlor in his home town, 70 miles away. >>Another fine pickle he's gotten into himself.<<< ---------- I thought that story sounded familar: techstocks.com