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Date: 2 Oct 1998 20:48:18 -0700
0. The desktop itself is a translucent green-blue stone slab I got from a
friend doing geology in the South Atlantic; he said the sea floor was
littered with them. I wore through more of the government's diamond bits
than I care to admit, drilling the holes for the intercom wires.
Sometimes when the sunlight comes in my window at just the right angle,
the shapes below the polished surface look like written words. Sometimes
it just looks like stone.
1. Multipart ZIP file of the largest prime number, on a box of 8" diskettes
2. CDs:
- Bachman Turner Overdrive Live
- ruby backup
- Skala File Archive
- After the Gold Rush
- HTML Icon Archive
- akt history 1998 working disc
3. Northwest Digital Systems GP-29 terminal
4. The bleached skull of my enemy
5. Sealed, stamped envelope addressed to "IEEE Operations Center, Admission
and Advancement Department"
6. Fermat's Little Theorem "Simple Groups" playset for ages seven and up,
in heavily worn condition; some proofs missing, and almost all of the
margin used up
7. Modern sculpture made from T pins, perched on the Jaz drive to keep the
demons and the cleaning lady away
8. Unlabelled vial of white powder
9. Your heart's desire
10. Two fingers of djinn and tonic in a Styrofoam cup
11. _GURPS Discworld_, _Applied Cryptography_, and _Miss Bianca_
12. A framed photo of my lover, dressed inappropriately, in a heavy rainstorm
--
"Let me lose so beautifully http://www.islandnet.com/~mskala/
Let me lick the dew from the money tree Matthew Skala
Have the moms of the world all care about me Ansuz BBS
At suppertime" - Odds (250) 472-3169
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