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To: Gauguin who wrote (12359)	9/8/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Helen has figured out the forward gear. Yesterday I laid the TV remote (which she already knows to be Forbidden Fruit) two feet away from her - on our extra fuzzy newly-cleaned carpets. She made six knee-steps and got to where she could stretch for it. She gave it her 29-point Lubrication Service, then sat up and gave me a wet gummy grin (+two lower incisors growing daily like Sweden after the ice retreated). Today she crawled a foot to count coup on my... foot. Oh. And last night she made a beeline for the TV altar, <cough> table, and pulled open the drawer! How do you make drawers secure against the doings of inquisitive scions? The market may suck, but the Bear-child rulz!

To: Gauguin who wrote (12359)	9/8/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

Damned lurkers have been reading our thread again: Carnegie Mellon's HomeNet study hit the world (online and off) with a big thud--inspiring a front page story in the Sunday New York Times with the memorable headline "Researchers Find Sad, Lonely World In Cyberspace." The headline, and to a lesser degree the article itself, conjured up images of a tribe of pasty-faced geeks, sitting alone in the sickly glow of their computer monitors, quietly sobbing, having systematically alienated every real friend they had in the real world in favor of vague virtual dalliances with other geeks as miserable and antisocial as they are. The article--and follow-up articles on the wire services, on CNN and the BBC--painted a picture of a world far different than the perky paradise seen in all those commercials for America Online. David Futrelle takes investigates the study's findings and soothes our bruised egos. ------------------------------------------------------- upside.com