[Log started by Adam Wed May  5 14:34:19 1999]

lpsmith exclaims, "I'm too clever by half!"
Ellison says, "now I don't believe in anything!"
Ellison says, "yup, I usually record Futurama"
lpsmith says, "Buffy comes on at 7.  We watch it at 8, so as to be able to
  fast-forward the commercials."
liza says, "I don't know what I'd do if I didn't live in EST/PST.  I'd have
  to go to work earlier."
liza says, "And it's not that I watch a lot of TV. It's just that it would
  seem fundamentally wrong for prime time to begin that early."
Ellison says, "I think it'd be weird to have prime time end that late"
lpsmith says, "Woah, only two people got the airport puzzle on CarTalk?  I
  shoulda sent in the answer."
katre says, "that was one of my main problems switching from est to cst. 
  I'm still not completely used to it."
markm says, "It took me a while to adjust, but you get used to it."
katre says, "It's been ..."
katre says, "omigod it's been 8 months."
katre asks, "where did the time go?"
markm says (to katre), "I've been in the midwest since May 95.  Iowa since
  Jul 97."
markm says, "And I still don't feel like a resident."
liza says (to markm), "Good."
markm grins.
Spatch says, "Bad Day At The Midway for Markm"
lpsmith says, "I've been in Russia for 19 months and every day I get a
  visit from the Rezident."
<vimes> I've only been here Five Minutes and, already I am Famus.
liza says, "Hey, Ultima III for the Mac is pretty cool."
markm says, "I haven't played that in aeons."
liza says, "At least I've found something to do with this stupid machine I
  couldn't do with my PC."
liza says, "> KILL LORD BRITISH. G. G."
markm says (to liza), "Here's a hint: the monsters can't walk over treasure
  chests.  So you can create a nice wall of protection around you by not
  opening them."
(From Spatch) liza says, "I can serve drinks from its copious casing."
markm says, "I once had a goal of filling up the entire surface area with
  chests."
liza says (to markm), "I'll bet you did."
lpsmith giggles.
katre says, "ha"
liza says (to Spatch), "I read that in Comic Store Guy voice."
Spatch says (to liza), "Yay!!"
Spatch says, "At last, a computer that allows me to serve up plenty of grog
  from its copious casing, not unlike those slim PCs everybody else seems to
  like."
<DorianX> And it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.
Earendil says, "I bought ultima III for my Atari 800, but the disks were
  corrupted and I was too lazy to send off to origin for a replacement disk,
  so I never got to play it"
katre says (to Earendil), "you are obviously not a fan."
katre says, "of course, neither am I."
markm asks, "Aren't Origin selling all the Ultimas bundled together?"
Earendil says, "yep.  I might get it someday."
katre asks (to markm), "how much, what platform?"
Earendil says, "I have ultima viii, but never liked it"
markm says (to katre), "Dunno."
Earendil says, "I think it's either $19 or $29 retail"
katre asks, "what use is a rumor with no info?"
Earendil says, "I got the Ultimate Might and Magic collection during
  christmas holidays and spent about 3 weeks playing them all"
DorianX has arrived.
katre says (to DorianX), "hi"
DorianX says, "Howdy"
<Hugo> Hugo has connected to ifMUD.
Grocible says, "ultima iii. heh"
DorianX says, "They wouldn't buy back my history bookl"
katre says (to markm), "problem with your matching code: I can't use "..dx.
  hi"."
Grocible says, "I remember that port"
katre says (to DX), "suck."
Grocible says, "any port in a storm"
Hugo walks into the room, saying, "And then I showed the little girl the
  picture of the nun and she said, 'That's what I wanna be.'"
DorianX says, "It's a huge hardcover book that cost me a ton of money too"
katre says (to hugo), "also hi."
Hugo says, "Also, heya."
DorianX says, "synonyms for player names would be cool"
inky strides in amidst the fog and gloom. Three monkey witches follow him,
  ooking in iambic pentameter. After calling inky the "Thane of Quendor", the
  witches abruptly exeunt, leaving the fog to dissipate.
katre says (to inky), "also also hi."
katre says, "I just need to wait til people finish connecting."
Hugo says, "Cool...Popup Bomber fan e-mail..."
Grocible says, "heh. my friend who's organizing a rave and trying to become
  a promoter says I'm the only one who recognized the rave flyer graphics he
  used"
Grocible says, "I like a rave flyer"
liza asks (to Groc), "What were the graphics?"
liza says, "Eeeagh! Designer just came in and took photos of me with
  digital camera."
katre asks (to liza), "same one who was coloring you?"
liza says, "They were yelling, 'MUST HAVE PHOTO OF NEW HAIR!'"
liza says (to katre), "Yeah, but the whole design staff was behind it."
katre says, "ha"
liza says, "I had to figure out how to close my Ultima window ASAP."
katre says, "double ha"
<Adam> Can Archie fight or not? In one issue he gets sucker-punched by
  Reggie; in another he knocks out BOTH Khrushchev and Castro.
Adam says, "Okay, let me tell you about my dream."
Spatch says, "liza: now with NEW HAIR"
Grocible says, "liza: couple cute anime characters"
Adam says, "First of all, in my dream, I wasn't me.  I was a black yuppie
  in my late 30s.  And it wasn't the present, either -- it was 1987 or so."
Hugo asks, "Waitasec--this isn't 1987?"
Adam says, "In the dream, I went to LAX to catch a flight.  But my wife and
  child were kidnapped, and I couldn't find them, because I somehow ended up
  in the LAX mall and couldn't get back to the airport part."
Adam says, "This nice girl kept trying to help me find the airport, but in
  reality she was working for the kidnappers and was steering me *away* from
  the exits."
Adam says, "Finally I got wise to her plan and escaped into the parking
  garage."
<Gordy> Gordy has connected to ifMUD.
Adam says, "There were the kidnappers, on the stairwell.  I managed to
  defeat one, leaving him beaten bloody.  But he was just the flunkie."
Gordy arrives from the east.
liza says, "Funk-slappa."
Adam says, "Then came the dramatic showdown with the main guy."
Grocible asks, "he wasn't a lion?"
Adam says, "He explained that this was all revenge for the fact that the
  three of us had been drug-using pimps together back in the good old days,
  and by turning my life around, I was showing him disrespect by acting like
  I was now better than he was."
Adam says, "Anyway, he was about to get away, but he got hit by a car."
liza asks (to Adam), "So you dreamt you were Wesley Snipes?"
Gordy reads Alex-cap. Adam becomes Shaft in his dreams?
Adam says, "So I went to *his* car, and found a tray of fabulous
  desserts."
Adam says, "So I ate all the desserts."
katre says, "yay desserts!"
Spatch says, "the woman who played Nellie Olson on Little House on the
  Prairie has a web site entitled "Confessions of a Prairie Bitch"."
Adam says, "And that was the end.  I didn't actually rescue my family at
  any point in the dream.  I just ate like seven slices of
  differently-flavored cheesecakes."
Gordy asks, "With seven slices of cheesecake, who the heck needs family?"
Spatch says, "Six Degrees of Separation from Seven Different Slices of
  Cheesecake"
Alex exclaims, "Awwk! Log started!"

[Log finished Wed May  5 14:34:51 1999]