Teethmarks

When Randy began to experiment with cutting down on demon nic, he started chewing on his furniture. Or so he claimed. When I asked to see the teethmarks on his desk, Randy finally had something to put on his homepage! This project kept him busy for a while. I guess that page was the origin of this site and his desire to communicate was its purpose.

Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 13:10:54 -0500
From: rw@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (RW)
To: Multiple recipients of list smoke-free@msstate.edu
Subject: Re: a funny story (fwd)

>
> ........I wanna see the teeth marks on your desk :)
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> lucia
>
Hmmm.. this morning I woke looking for something to do to not smoke for a while. Mainly I felt like going down to the street to bite the tires on passing cars and bark a lot. That's a fitting thing to do on a holiday weekend, right??

Instead of that, I drove over to work and picked up a video camera, made some pictures of my desk. Then I drove back and captured the pictures into a computer file with this elderly Amiga I have here at home. Then I wanted to convert the picture file from an Amiga type thingy to a gif suitable for the internet. I also decided I'd like to have before and after pictures of me vis-a-vis stiopping smoking. You know: before: 90 lb weakling.. after 91 lb weakling.

I yanked the hard drive outta my mail computer and put in a drive that runs dos which has the graphics conversion doo-dad on it. After that, I deposited the converted files on my web site. Then I tried to re-install my mail system's hard drive. I put the cable on upside down. I was really wishin' I had Greg nearby. I felt like tossing the bloody computer all the way to Beer-Sheeva. I couldn't think at all (could I ever??).

Somehow, I got the cable fixed and restarted the thing. Then I used my other computer to dial in and edit the links on my home page. By this time, I was quite cross-eyed. Then I decided that I ought to check what I'd done, only to find that the other day when I upgraded the SLIP machine, I blew away my X-windows installation and my web browser won't work.. argghh.

I decided to say, "Screw it, I'm gonna whine on the mailing list before I fiddle with X-windows."

Anyways, you should be able to see the teeth marks on my desktop, my before picture, and you can listen to a sound file of what I think Kelly's jacuzi sounds like. The sound file is actually a speeded up siesmic recording of an earthquake. You need a www browser to do this.

The URL is: dumb web page

yi-eye-yi.. All this started because there are over 500 messages in my mailbox and I'd rather do just about anything besides cleaning out the old ones.. well, I ought to do some housework too, but that's even less likely to get done.

--Randy
rw@.. duhhhh, whereami

If you tried to click on Randy's "dumb web page" you found out it doesn't exit anymore. Somewhere along the process of change, the original page got linked into a new one and got transformed. But we still have the sound and some of the graphic files.

This is Randy in June 1995, just before he quit smoking:

[Randy before quitting]

Click here for the sound of a California earthquake.

We've misplaced the image of Randy's teeth marks :-(

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