Topic 1 of 28: genx conference bidness
Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (04:13) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Generation X. Not me. It's about 60s born people. But it's also for
those younger and older than them, and those who love and hate them. And
for them themselves mostly.
I should dedicate this to the memory of the lost springeur, Melissa
Petrek, known in the parts in days of yore as suprnaut. One day she got
up and married and became Martha Stewart. But she sure did run one
helluva genx conference.
Any Melissa Petreks out there want to volunteer to host this conference.
It doesn't pay much, but the rewards get better if you can get some
chemistry going like Melissa did.
A moment of silence of the memory of Melissa please.
58 responses total.
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Response 1 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (04:23) * 6 lines
If you want to see the Spring the way it was when the genx conference was
in it's heyday, check out:
http://www.spring.com/~dbii/forum/
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Response 2 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (04:24) * 5 lines
Then check out:
http://www.spring.com:/~dbii/forum/deeper.html
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Response 3 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (04:26) * 6 lines
Then go to
http://www.spring.com:/~dbii/forum/confs/genx.html
which is frozen slice of what was once was.
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Response 4 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (04:43) * 4 lines
There were 64 topics in the orginal genx conference. nike was the last
person to post there on June 22, 1995. We ran caucus software back
then. No web interface. That came later when David Bluestein did a
redesign.
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Response 5 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (04:50) * 89 lines
And now, for the original topic list:
THE "OK" MANIFESTO
1. What's the point of "OK"? Well, what's the point of anything?
2. The better you understand something, the more OK it turns out to be.
3. "OK" emphatically rejects anything that is not OK, and fully supports
any
-thing that is.
4. "OK" may be the preferred drink of other people such as yourself.
5. Never overestimate the remarkable abilities of "OK."
WELCOME TO THE GEN-X CONFERENCE!
Your genteel hostess
Melissa Marie
(suprnaut)
Contents
Item 1 ( 126) Introductions
Item 2 ( 118) sex or ...
Item 3 ( 40) Embarrassing Things I Did in the '80s
Item 4 ( 27) First Jobs From Hell and Beyond
Item 5 ( 96) OK Cola: Your Comments, Please
Item 6 ( 12) My Favorite Emo's Story
Item 7 ( 24) Julia Robert and ___?___ (Fill in the blank)
Item 8 ( 4) Recommended Roadtrips for Genx'rs
Item 9 ( 42) Roommates: the Good, the Bad and the Totally Deranged
Item 10 ( 46) Coffeehouse Clique
Item 11 ( 19) The Crow
Item 12 ( 13) The Best (or Worst) Pick-Up Lines of the '90s
Item 13 ( 0) "Life After God": Douglas Coupland's New Book
Item 14 ( 17) GenX Marketing: Your Favorite Obnoxious Example Here
Item 15 ( 1) Vignettes From the 13th Edge
Item 16 ( 43) They Shoot Old MTV VJ's, Don't They?
Item 17 ( 19) Speed Racer vs. Garfield - The Cartoon Topic
Item 18 ( 13) I Love Lovejoy's! (604 Nueces)
Item 19 ( 13) Tales from the Vat: Fast Food Horror Stories
Item 20 ( 11) Reality Bites: Did anyone else hate this movie?
Item 21 ( 14) Two BILLION Teens by the Millenium
Item 22 ( 26) Prozac, En Vogue
Item 23 ( 72) Bad 13th Gen Fiction Writing (Ongoing)
Item 24 ( 32) My First Rock Concert Was ...
Item 25 ( 64) the soundtrack of our adolescence
Item 26 ( 15) Melrose Place - Predictions for Next Season
Item 27 ( 26) Things from Childhood that I Really, Really Miss
Item 28 ( 38) I Knew I Was an Adult When ...
Item 29 ( 32) This is not my beautiful life ...
Item 30 ( 31) Woodstock II: Sucking in Saugerties, NY
Item 31 ( 10) Boomers-pension/social security=0
Item 32 ( 7) Genx Role Models -- are there any?
Item 33 ( 34) Shacking Up
Item 34 ( 44) Describe your perfect job here
Item 35 ( 8) True Confessions: I didn't go to Lollapalooza
Item 36 ( 5) Courting, Gen-X Style
Item 37 ( 21) Models Inc.: Who Watches this Shit?
Item 38 ( 5) Confession of a Billy Idol fan...
Item 39 ( 10) X'ing it up, Austin-style
Item 40 ( 26) UT-Austin Survival Stories
Item 41 ( 12) The Walsh's vs. Valerizilla (or: Where the hell is Brenda?)
Item 42 ( 26) The Movies of Our Adolescence
Item 43 ( 33) What did you want to be when you grew up?
Item 44 ( 70) Needful Things: Are we materialistic?
Item 45 ( 32) The River Pheonix Syndrome
Item 46 ( 21) C.D.'s for Twentysomethings
Item 47 ( 55) gen-x concert reviews
Item 48 ( 126) Republican take-over: are we screwed?
Item 49 ( 18) concerts i wish i could have gone to ('60s-'70s)
Item 50 ( 17) The "I Hate Courtney" Topic
Item 51 ( 24) Falling into The Gap!
Item 52 ( 23) The World through the Eyes of Genxers and How it Should be
Item 53 ( 21) the first time i got drunk
Item 54 ( 29) Political Correctness: How do I loathe thee ....?
Item 55 ( 14) predictions for future mega-trends
Item 56 ( 10) The Worst/Most Embarrassing Job I've Ever Had
Item 57 ( 13) Did you have a good hair day?
Item 58 ( 12) Winona Ryder Overkill
Item 59 ( 20) Animaniacs: Cartoons for the Post-Modern Fringe
Item 60 ( 2) Name your favorite/least favorite brady!
Item 61 ( 17) GenX and the Spring on the World Wide Web
Item 62 ( 0) The Brady Bunch Movie -- Okay, Who's Seen It? y
Item 63 ( 0) Ok? what is the concept?
Item 64 ( 9) MTV's The Real World
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Response 6 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Mar 4, 1998 (00:21) * 1 lines
I'll be back...
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Response 7 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Mar 4, 1998 (07:29) * 2 lines
Really, come on back.
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Response 8 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Mar 5, 1998 (01:29) * 3 lines
Okay, okay, I'm back...
Volunteer number one
(interim or permanent or co-)
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Response 9 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (09:01) * 1 lines
host, that is...
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Response 10 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Apr 4, 1998 (04:23) * 2 lines
Well, huh, can I, huh huh huh?
Oohh, puh-leeease?
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Response 11 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Apr 6, 1998 (16:25) * 1 lines
i don't know... can you?
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Response 12 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Apr 6, 1998 (16:40) * 3 lines
Do I sense...
willingness?
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Response 13 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Apr 7, 1998 (19:01) * 7 lines
or do you sense...
... interest?
... coyness?
... silliness?
or was that...
willingness???
*?*
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Response 14 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Apr 7, 1998 (23:56) * 2 lines
My guess would be b and c cause a and d, I believe, are
incident specific or at least mood dependant...
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Response 15 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Apr 8, 1998 (09:52) * 2 lines
And my guess is that your answers are also 'incident specific or at least mood dependant...'
*smile*
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Response 16 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Apr 8, 1998 (23:47) * 1 lines
More like incident anticipatory or person dependant...
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Response 17 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr 9, 1998 (09:51) * 3 lines
there's a pill for that you know.
*smile*
big hug to you on this bright shiny morning WER!
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Response 18 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Apr 9, 1998 (13:07) * 2 lines
Thanks, hon.
Got one for you, too...
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Response 19 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr 9, 1998 (16:30) * 3 lines
thanks.
been a pretty good day here.
getting another new student (just because 'stability' in a classroom doesn't make sense to the district)
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Response 20 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Apr 14, 1998 (01:19) * 1 lines
How's school, teach?
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Response 21 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (09:30) * 1 lines
going alright. More crazy stuff regarding the student situation I 'vented' about before. He's okay now but Mom is in jail for child abuse and abandonment as well as drug abuse. And he's in another shelter.
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Response 22 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (12:16) * 2 lines
Wish I could smack her around for ya.
My best to him, and strength to you.
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Response 23 of 58: Wolf (Wolf) * Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (12:43) * 1 lines
God, I'm sorry Stacey. How is he doing through all this?
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Response 24 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (16:22) * 3 lines
he's one heck of a kid. resilient, strong and usually very upbeat.
He doesn't keep things in and so we've been able to talk a lot about conflicting emotions (loving Mom/hating the things she's done) which help keep him from having festering feelings.
If my own life were more stable (financially and otherwise) I'd certainly put my name on the foster parent list!
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Response 25 of 58: Wolf (Wolf) * Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (21:12) * 1 lines
don't blame ya there...sounds like a good kid, glad he is able to talk about it...
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Response 26 of 58: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:04) * 1 lines
Even without being a foster parent, you are still making a huge difference in those kids' lives...
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Response 27 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (10:19) * 1 lines
they bring an awful lot to mine as well!
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Response 28 of 58: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (15:58) * 1 lines
How old is the spring?
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Response 29 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (16:02) * 5 lines
Conceptually, going on 10 years. ON the net, going on 5 years.
March 21, 1999 will be our 10th anniversery from the point of conception
and the fifth anniversery of going on the Internet. We started out as a
telnet service. Our web anniversery will be the 4th year on March 21, 1999.
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Response 30 of 58: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (06:14) * 1 lines
That's amazing! Is there going to be a party? Because that date sounds pretty free and possible to me . . .
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Response 31 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (07:41) * 1 lines
I think we should have a *major* party for our tenth anniversery.
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Response 32 of 58: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (08:03) * 1 lines
Great! I MUST make it this time! Mike, how does March sound to you?
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Response 33 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (13:25) * 1 lines
You must!
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Response 34 of 58: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (13:32) * 1 lines
And I will. I really hope the others will come too.
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Response 35 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (14:39) * 2 lines
all going as planned...
I shall be in Berlin on March 21, 1999
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Response 36 of 58: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (16:37) * 2 lines
What's going on there?
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Response 37 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (21:19) * 2 lines
Acoustical Society of America meeting...
I'm tagging along!
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Response 38 of 58: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (02:16) * 1 lines
I knew it! I'll be going to America, and you will all end up in Germany or Switzerland on that precise date!
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Response 39 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (08:39) * 1 lines
not me, I'm pretty much stuck where I am...
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Response 40 of 58: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (09:13) * 1 lines
At least I'll eat well - which would more that compensate for my loneliness.
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Response 41 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (14:09) * 1 lines
try the tiramisu!
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Response 42 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Dec 11, 1998 (11:03) * 1 lines
just make sure I'm at work before you come by...
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Response 43 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Dec 18, 1998 (20:39) * 1 lines
Yeah... I blew that one. Sorry.
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Response 44 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Dec 19, 1998 (11:44) * 1 lines
no need to apologize, oh passing ship...
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Response 45 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Dec 21, 1998 (22:11) * 1 lines
oh... Frigate!
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Response 46 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (00:49) * 1 lines
ever notice how that word is startling close to frigid?
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Response 47 of 58: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (12:19) * 1 lines
Did you notice she named the most powerful ship that is allowed to travel solo.
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Response 48 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (17:18) * 2 lines
semantics semantics...
go ahead, just TRY and put meaning into my words!
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Response 49 of 58: T Patrick McCourt (PT) * Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (19:23) * 1 lines
Are you trying to say that your words are meaningless?
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Response 50 of 58: Leplep le Plep (jgross) * Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (21:52) * 3 lines
her ship is midnight blue and it blew right by....
the water is so cold now
it's like frigid or something....
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Response 51 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Dec 22, 1998 (21:52) * 3 lines
*laugh*
Jim, that had just as much meaning as that flyer that froze to the windshield of my car this morning...
tres poingant!
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Response 52 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Dec 25, 1998 (09:44) * 1 lines
and why didn't you post said flyer on here, Stace?
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Response 53 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 6, 1999 (15:08) * 1 lines
oh, well...
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Response 54 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jan 6, 1999 (20:35) * 1 lines
oh well what??? (throw be a bone, I'm telnetting)
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Response 55 of 58: wer (wer) * Wed, Jan 6, 1999 (22:28) * 2 lines
the flyer on your car,
why you no post so all of us could share?
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Response 56 of 58: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 7, 1999 (03:31) * 1 lines
methinks you must be referring to the church post bazaar sale flyer that got all stuck in my windshield with the wet snow...
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Response 57 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan 7, 1999 (11:51) * 1 lines
probably
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Response 58 of 58: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 30, 1999 (12:20) * 1 lines
but then again...
genx slacker heaven 
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