Eclectic Views

    
Welcome to Mike! 

But I really, really hope that this does not mean that Chuck will be
cutting back on the Well in general...
  

    
This pseud is a commemorative of the day that I reported aboard
my first submarine, as the most junior officer, and I was
immediately given all of the mandatory but irrelevant
assignments, including but not limited to:

Library Officer
Recreation Officer
Savings Bonds Officer
Combined Federal Campaign Officer
and twenty other such assignments.

The position was universally referred to as Shitty Little Jobs
Officer.  The Exec kept calling for me, "Where's the SLJO?"

When I took the pseud, I chose to punctuate it as in M*A*S*H.
  

    
I would love to see a TV series based on that.  ;)
  

    
Were you Laundry and Morale Officer, Chuck?
  

    
By regulation, the skipper is the Morale Officer, and the 
appointment cannot be delegated.

We had no ship's laundry.  We used the tender's laundry.  Except
when we were in foreign ports.  So I guess I was Laundry Officer
the first time we arrived in Lisbon.

I was Recreation Officer.
  

    
Doesn't being the skipper ever conflict with having to be Morale Officer as
well?
  

    
Of course.  I didn't say it made sense.  I just said it was a
regulation.

And this pseud is one that I have been using in the books
conference since 1989.  I had a slow modem in those days.
  

    
snort!
  

    
This pseud was inspired by a NASA discovery.  I kept it for a 
couple of years.
  

    
Chuck, that is TOO cool!
  

    
Two years later I changed to this one.
  

    

<209>  That made for newspaper headlines that were much ridiculed at
the time.  
  

    
No one has introduced themselves here in over two years?  I just came
back to this conference because I ran out of new topics and am bored at
work.  It was a nice read-through from R:0, but I've already
introduced myself a few times.  

Thought I'd move this one up on the topics list for someone to say hi
who maybe hasn't introduced themselves yet.  or not.
  

    

I just went through (extract for picosaurs) all my posts in this topic and
I found I had never introduced myself. So here follows my .plan.  This
agglomeration of words defines me in the same way as the sum of the blind
men's observations defines an elephant:

My interests include Meher Baba, spirituality, dogs, system administration
& music. Co-host of <gratitude.ind.> and <islam.ind.>.  Webmaster for our
local dog owners group http://www.wcdog.org

My wife arranges tours of North America for celtic and folk musicians.
http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com She also works for the Lute Society
of America: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/index.html

Read the ghost written autobiography of the one that rules us:
        http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/lila/lila.html

A picture: http://www.well.com/~jmcarlin/carlins.jpg

Do you remember Jay Ward's Super Chicken?
   http://www.tilda.edu-negev.gov.il/nit/super.wav 
   http://www.tilda.edu-negev.gov.il/nit/charge.wav
   http://www.tilda.edu-negev.gov.il/nit/job.wav

Want to be an evil overlord? http://www.eviloverlord.com/

Hail colorectal surgeons: http://f2.org/snd/colo-surgeon-abcrn-20030818.mp3

Some favorite buttons from http://www.nancybuttons.com/

  If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well DANCE.

  Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for
  bears to dance to, while we long to make music which will melt the stars.

  God created music so people can pray without words.

  Shit happens but it also makes things grow.

  Don't worry. Be silly.
  

    
Heh!  I just discovered that <gail> has her own page in Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Williams
  

    
Congrats, Gail!
  

    

> In 2000 Williams was named as one of the Top 25 Women of the Web.

Tres cool.
  

    
It was a really wonderful ceremony with 25 women telling their stories 
about getting into the Internet. And <evy> was included the following 
year.  A real treat.
  

    
Wow!  Congrats!