Conference back40::soapbox

    	Everybody has a  ::  somewhere in their middle.
    
    	And who is the "we" in "tell us what you think we look like"

    I think everybody in the box wears a tie. They all have stress lines
    around their eyes and they all have what I call automobile butt (except
    maybe that guy named Chip 'cause he is in the bicycle conference) The
    guys all wear aftershave and the women all wear lipstick. Well that is
    all I'll say 'cause I wouldn't want to offend anyone, god forbid anyone
    getting offended. 

I don't wear a tie, at least not if I can help it.  I also don't wear
aftershave, 'coz that's for puffs.

Chris.

    
    
    Mikey,
    
    Why do I have to remain nameless?  :*)
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

All the men wear aftershave?  Does that include the ones with beards?

    Not all of us have a :: somewhere in the middle.
    
    Sign me binder@zk3.dec.com.

    Joe, the we is the invisible conspiratorial we that makes up the
    Trilateral Commission.
    
    Gerald, bearded men shave occasionally at least if they wish to keep
    themsleves somewhat kempt.
    
    		     SMURF::BINDER 
    What's this then?     ^^
    
    

>    Gerald, bearded men shave occasionally at least if they wish to keep
>    themsleves somewhat kempt.

Some of us don't.

    You never ever everever shave?  Do you pluck instead?  

What never?
No never.

It gets the occasional trim with scissors, mostly to keep me from eating
my moustache.

    .7
    
    >                  SMURF::BINDER
    > What's this then?     ^^
    
    I use a VMS system for Notes.  Period.

	Let Mz_Deb eat yer stash.... 

    You don't eat a stash, Glen, you toke it one lid at a time.

    
    Gerald...what, NEVER?

    
>>    Gerald...what, NEVER?

	conjures up quite an image, doesn't it?  so far we have sort of
	a slouching rip van winkle.    

| <<< Note 473.13 by SMURF::BINDER "Father, Son, and Holy Spigot" >>>

| You don't eat a stash, Glen, you toke it one lid at a time.


	But is it fattening, Dick?

    If you smoked the whole lid, you would end up with terminal munchies
    which would be quite fattening if not deadly.  

I should think so, the idea of eating a VT320 doesn't really appeal...

Chris.

    
    chris, to crunchy

That's what I thought, too.  You get a nice tingling sensation when the
tube implodes, though... :)

Chris.

>	conjures up quite an image, doesn't it?  so far we have sort of
>	a slouching rip van winkle.    

Zzzzzz... Huh?  What?

    re: .2
    
    I own lipstick.  I wear it about the same number of times per
    year as we have national holidays.
    
    I wear earrings when I get up in time to find at least a matching
    pair that goes with what I am wearing and has not been carted off
    by one of the 8 four-legged creatures that reside in my house.
    
    Hope this helps.
    
    Mary-Michael

Ties ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH.  without one life is wonderful.  When I wear one I
become immediately anal retentive, arrogant and obnoxious.  

CONFESSION TIME!
I have a picture of the beautiful Terrie Woodford in my posession.  I was not
going to tell anyone without her permission.   

I started this thing, and will put my impressions in here too.  But I want to
see what ya'll think the 'boxers look like.  

Mikey

    I was wrong with my first attempt st describing the boxers. The men all
    wear baseball caps with farm machinery logos on them and the women are
    all beautiful with a look of calm satisfaction.

I wouldn't be seen dead wearing a baseball cap!

Chris.

    I wear mostly my motorcycle helmet, always a conversation starter in
    meetings... :-)
    
    Or what most people refer to as my "cowboy hat".  Doesn't really look
    like one to me, but then what do I know, I can't see it very well,
    after all it's on top of my head :-)

    :-)
    Dan

    BTW - I used to have a CAT baseball hat (as in Caterpillar)

    re: hats
    
    Bzzzzt.  Wrongo.  I don't wear hats.  I hate that silly ring it leaves
    in my hair- most annoying.  Forces you to keep the stupid thing on all
    the time or look foolish.  (oops, I just gave away one detail of my 
    appearance...I'm not bald)
    
    
    -steve 

>    I was wrong with my first attempt st describing the boxers. The men all
>    wear baseball caps with farm machinery logos on them and the women are
>    all beautiful with a look of calm satisfaction.

Male boxers wear gloves and trunks.  Female boxers wear gloves, trunks, and
frilly blouses.

    Male boxers are all unshaven louts who wear ill-fitting blue jeans
    heavy on crack display, and guzzle cheap lager or jug wine.
    
    Female boxers are like male boxers except that they're not unshaven,
    they wear much better-fitting attire, and their taste in alcoholic
    beverages is much classier.

re .29,

wow, that man has some perception!

Chris.

    >> heavy on crack display, and guzzle cheap lager or jug wine.   
    
    No crack display here.  Pretty hard when they are pulled up around my
    armpits.  You never know when the flood waters will rise.  My beverage
    choice comes from a box versus a jug but it serves the same purpose.  

    .30
    
    Read your mail, lager lout.

    It ain't the former, and the form ain't something I'd want to deal.

>    Read your mail, lager lout.

sorry, I was busy stuffing my face at the time.  If anyone's daft enough
to want to see my hideous appearence, it's on one of these new fangled web
thingys at http://vodka.rhc.dec.com/home/chris/chris.html.  It's a load of
old bollocks, so don't hassle me.

Chris.

    He was right too.....hideous... {blurgh}

    Hey hey!!  Binder, I do NOT drink cheap lager.

    Cute pic of the Porcelain God in
    http://vodka.rhc.dec.com/home/vodka/vodka.html
    , O Loutish One...
    
    PS -- note that proper webiquette (q.v.) is not to append spurious
          punctuation to URLs, the better to glom 'em with mice.  nnttm.
    

    And how about a picture in which yer ugly mug isn't too dark to be
    seen?

    Note to WebImpaired onlookers -- the good Doctah referreth to ye Lout,
    not Yours Truly.
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Apologies for the spurious punctuation, I'm always managing to do that!  No
apologies for the lack of lighting in the 'photo, what you can see is bad
enough.  Oh, and I'd like to point out that the picture of the Porcelain
God *isn't* from my bathroom; I know I'm disgusting, but even I'm not that
bad!

re .40, good to put another face to a name!  Any other html's, GIFs or
whatever out there that people would admit to?

Chris.

    > Any other html's, GIFs or
    > whatever out there that people would admit to?
    
    http://www.zk3.dec.com/~binder/bio.html

    
    Why do people have their own homepages anyhow?
    Ego? A means of advertising? networking? Bored? No Life?
    
    							Hank

In my case, because a couple of irresponsible Deccies were let loose with
a scanner and wanted to do something with it.

Chris.

    > Why do people have their own homepages anyhow?
    > Ego? A means of advertising? networking? Bored? No Life?

    My technical consulting resume is part of my home page,
    as is information about ISO 13240 (the standard I edit).
    There are also excerpts from various CD-ROM projects
    my company has produced.

    Soon, I will be adding a list of recordings (by myself
    and various friends) that people can order, as well
    as gig notices.

    I'm not publishing a pointer just now though, as I'm in
    the process of moving my home page from a public access
    Internet provider (for which I pay for every connection
    to my home page), to my company's Internet gateway.

    -b

    > Why do people have their own homepages anyhow?
    
    Have you looked at mine?  It tells what my Digital responsibilities and
    assignments are and gives significant amounts of information about the
    tools for which I'm the DRI.  It also offers a little insight into me
    as a person - which may make somebody a little more comfortable about
    dealing with me for the first time.

     How come I can't "see" the picture using Mosaic? (I'd use netscape,
    but when I do the connection is refused.)

>>  which may make somebody a little more comfortable about
>>  dealing with me for the first time.

	nothing can prepare one.  ;>

    .47
    
    Mosaic requires a helper application to open the picture for it.  Try
    xv.  Dunno why Netscape is getting refusals - I can open the page with
    Netscape from another system (the Mac on my desk).

	Mosaic can see the thumbnail.gif, but won't show the inlined JPEG
	in /picture.html    vx would show the JPEG, but the picture is
	linked back to the /bio page instead of to the jpeg image.

    It's decided to start working now. Must have been an issue with the crl
    proxy machine.

    .51
    
    Why are you using crl as a proxy?  Change your settings to set no proxy
    on dec.com and you'll get lots better results inside Digital.

    >Why are you using crl as a proxy?
    
     Because otherwise I can't see squat outside the company (where I do
    most of my surfing.)

    Does the Trilateral Commission monitor personal homepages?

    .50
    
    > vx would show the JPEG, but the picture is
    > linked back to the /bio page instead of to the jpeg image.
    
    I'd guess this is a deficiency of Mosaic; the JPEG is a clickable link
    to the bio page, but Netscape displays it just fine.

    .53
    
    Pull down the Options menu to Preferences.  Click on the popup menu in
    the Preferences window and choose Mail and Proxies.  In the Proxies
    box, find the line No proxy on: and put dec.com in the box.  Leave the
    crl proxy in place for the other entries.

	.55
	
>    I'd guess this is a deficiency of Mosaic; the JPEG is a clickable link
>    to the bio page, but Netscape displays it just fine.

	Right. It is a deficiency of Mosaic. However, my point was; if the
	inlined image was a clickable link to the fullsize .JPEG image,
	Mosaic users could view the .JPEG using XV.

    .50, .55
    
    I've converted the JPEG to an interlaced GIF, and now Mosaic is happy.

	Yeah, too bad it's still a picture of you and not a BoxBabe(tm)
	
	;-)  ;-)

    
    Perhaps I could bring in a picture of the MSO_Babes and scan it in 8^).

	whattaya waitin' for?    A request?   ;-)

    
    I shouldn't even be TALKING to you after what you did to me in December.

	You're not going to bring that up again, are you?

>    Perhaps I could bring in a picture of the MSO_Babes and scan it in 8^).

go on, then!  (Curious PN, btw)

Chris.

    
    It's a bit late to be feeling guilty NOW, Jay 8^).

	You're right, Deb. Thanks. I feel better now.    ;-)

    You shouldn't, that was a pretty mean thing you did in December.

    .60
    
    Bring it into ZKO.  I'll scan it and put it on the Web.  Mebbe I'll
    even retouch it a little.

    
    
    >>> Any other html's, GIFs or
    >>> whatever out there that people would admit to?
    
    
    http://bulova.zko.dec.com/people/MIKE_WOLINSKI.HTML
    
    or John Covert,
    
    http://bulova.zko.dec.com/people/JOHN_COVERT.HTML
    
    
    	-mike
    

    
    Ooh, good!  I've always wanted to be tall and blonde.

It's a little known fact that Dick used to be an airbrusher for Playboy.

    No, Gerald.  I used to be a playboy with an airbrush.  Not the same
    thing at all.

    Ms. Deb,
        I'm absolutely SURE that there are no improvements that he could
    make to YOUR appearance.

    :-)
    Dan

    .73
    
    You are correct, Dan.  However, Mz_Debra, being a woman, is incapable
    of perceiving the obvious - in this regard, anyway.

    'Twuz a backhanded double compliment to Yer Babeness, O Bronzed one.
    

| <<< Note 473.24 by POLAR::WILSONC "Cars = Death" >>>

| I was wrong with my first attempt st describing the boxers. The men all
| wear baseball caps with farm machinery logos on them and the women are
| all beautiful with a look of calm satisfaction.

	My hat would have to be pink.... :-)

    Adorned with spangles and ostrich feathers.

    Glen, 
    Tell us something we don't know......
    hehehehehe
    
    :-)
    Dan

    .75
    
    Listen to the man in .76, m'dear.

| <<< Note 473.78 by WAHOO::LEVESQUE "the countdown is on" >>>

| Adorned with spangles and ostrich feathers.

	Spangles yes, the ostrich feathers would be used to make up my feather
boa. :-)