This cone story is getting a lot of media attention (of course, since it was slashdotted.) I was just asked to telephone Scotland for a BBC Radio Scotland morning program where they wanted to do a wacky news segment on the "Dalek cones". (But I didn't get on the air because they went with Nigel Jones, who has a swell Web site that lets you blow up animated cones.)
This was the first time I've ever dialed one of those overseas phone numbers with all the extra digits in it. And all just because some mad scientist in Nebraska wants cones to run over people.
Anyway, now I hope I can go back to ignoring traffic cones (like a normal person) for the next few days, until another news story breaks about cones kidnapping the Olsen Twins or something.
Damn, I knew I should have updated my Web site several years ago. Oh well, too late now. I'll never get my thousands of other photos of orange cones posted before the robocones exterminate me. Best not to even try.
You can see my recent comments on the subject on alt.religion.kibology:
(Or, the old-fashioned way, open alt.religion.kibology in your favorite newsreader and select articles containing "cone" in the subject, but be careful not to accidentally read any articles by people other than me.)
Reid wrote:
> Hey Kibo, if you're reading this, remember that first Sun lab in the JEC?
Of course. It arrived the same summer as Podular, if I recall correctly.
I even remember being almost banned from that PAWL lab because I thought the "PAWL##.pawl.rpi.edu" names were boring so I made up names for all 23 machines and slapped stickers on them when nobody was around just to see if they'd get adopted. (I couldn't decide what naming scheme to use, so I named a third of the machines after science-fiction novelists, a third after cartoon sound effects, and I forget about the other third.)
Google even has a few of the posts I made from PAWL17 and PAWL23 and so on, plus a small fraction of the ones from MTS and Brazil. In late 1988 or possibly late 1987, Brazil was the first machine I used for Usenet access (RPI-ACM's 3B2) and then later it was the PAWLs and Sandro's *Forum-to-Usenet gateway. It was sometime during those years (probably around '87 or '88) that Mark-Jason Dominus (most likely, unless it was Todd McComb) said "There should be Kibology!" while we were at China Pagoda, and little did he realize that I was going to base the rest of my life on those four words. (Todd had a more concise, two-word philosophy -- "You're allowed!" -- which also warped me for life.)
Before Usenet, I had a conference on MTS's *Forum named "Kibo", I recall. I don't have the nine-track tape archive any more, but some printouts do exist of some of the, um, what's the word for stuff that doesn't have any highlights?
I like to think of 1985-1988 (my *Forum and Bitnet years) and 1988-1991 (my pre-alt.religion.kibology Usenet years) as the period when my articles were never worth reading, as opposed to now when they're only MOSTLY never worth reading.
The Google archive is quite spotty for my early years. They don't have my first month's worth from alt.religion.kibology, and they seem to be confused between the first posting I made from Schenectady (12/91) and my first posts to a.r.k (11/91).
(Plus a lot of people seem to have assumed I wasn't posting before that, even though Google has some articles I posted in 1988.)
Amusingly, in Google's list of their choice of 20 points in Usenet history, they identify the 12/91 article as my first a.r.k post, but the same sentence links to a page displaying the actual first article. (The one with almost half an attempt at some sort of onomatopoesis referring to Gene Spafford for reasons I can't remember.)
But at least Google doesn't have any articles from that one week I had a giant sword in my.signature. I'm embarassed enough by the.signatures they DO have. You can even see the one I had before I realized I should only use.signatures ironically and made it 250 times longer. You can watch it grow! Although I don't know why anyone would want to.
I've been lucky enough to have the same E-mail address for over ten years, which also helps if you're actually trying to turn up my junk in the archive. The articles from before 1991 are harder to find because of all the weird permutations of Bitnet and UUCP addresses...
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This cone story is getting a lot of media attention (of course, since it was slashdotted.) I was just asked to telephone Scotland for a BBC Radio Scotland morning program where they wanted to do a wacky news segment on the "Dalek cones". (But I didn't get on the air because they went with Nigel Jones, who has a swell Web site that lets you blow up animated cones.)
This was the first time I've ever dialed one of those overseas phone numbers with all the extra digits in it. And all just because some mad scientist in Nebraska wants cones to run over people.
Anyway, now I hope I can go back to ignoring traffic cones (like a normal person) for the next few days, until another news story breaks about cones kidnapping the Olsen Twins or something.
-- K.
Damn, I knew I should have updated my Web site several years ago. Oh well, too late now. I'll never get my thousands of other photos of orange cones posted before the robocones exterminate me. Best not to even try.
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You can see my recent comments on the subject on alt.religion.kibology:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:alt.relig
(Or, the old-fashioned way, open alt.religion.kibology in your favorite newsreader and select articles containing "cone" in the subject, but be careful not to accidentally read any articles by people other than me.)
-- K.
Reid wrote:
.signature. I'm embarassed enough by the .signatures they DO have. You can even see the one I had before I realized I should only use .signatures ironically and made it 250 times longer. You can watch it grow! Although I don't know why anyone would want to.
> Hey Kibo, if you're reading this, remember that first Sun lab in the JEC?
Of course. It arrived the same summer as Podular, if I recall correctly.
I even remember being almost banned from that PAWL lab because I thought the "PAWL##.pawl.rpi.edu" names were boring so I made up names for all 23 machines and slapped stickers on them when nobody was around just to see if they'd get adopted. (I couldn't decide what naming scheme to use, so I named a third of the machines after science-fiction novelists, a third after cartoon sound effects, and I forget about the other third.)
Google even has a few of the posts I made from PAWL17 and PAWL23 and so on, plus a small fraction of the ones from MTS and Brazil. In late 1988 or possibly late 1987, Brazil was the first machine I used for Usenet access (RPI-ACM's 3B2) and then later it was the PAWLs and Sandro's *Forum-to-Usenet gateway. It was sometime during those years (probably around '87 or '88) that Mark-Jason Dominus (most likely, unless it was Todd McComb) said "There should be Kibology!" while we were at China Pagoda, and little did he realize that I was going to base the rest of my life on those four words. (Todd had a more concise, two-word philosophy -- "You're allowed!" -- which also warped me for life.)
Before Usenet, I had a conference on MTS's *Forum named "Kibo", I recall. I don't have the nine-track tape archive any more, but some printouts do exist of some of the, um, what's the word for stuff that doesn't have any highlights?
I like to think of 1985-1988 (my *Forum and Bitnet years) and 1988-1991 (my pre-alt.religion.kibology Usenet years) as the period when my articles were never worth reading, as opposed to now when they're only MOSTLY never worth reading.
The Google archive is quite spotty for my early years. They don't have my first month's worth from alt.religion.kibology, and they seem to be confused between the first posting I made from Schenectady (12/91) and my first posts to a.r.k (11/91).
(Plus a lot of people seem to have assumed I wasn't posting before that, even though Google has some articles I posted in 1988.)
Amusingly, in Google's list of their choice of 20 points in Usenet history, they identify the 12/91 article as my first a.r.k post, but the same sentence links to a page displaying the actual first article. (The one with almost half an attempt at some sort of onomatopoesis referring to Gene Spafford for reasons I can't remember.)
But at least Google doesn't have any articles from that one week I had a giant sword in my
I've been lucky enough to have the same E-mail address for over ten years, which also helps if you're actually trying to turn up my junk in the archive. The articles from before 1991 are harder to find because of all the weird permutations of Bitnet and UUCP addresses...
By the way, I don't read SlashDot.
-- K.