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There was this
young man, on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. It was wonderful, the
experience of his life. But, it did not last. A Hurricane came up
unexpectedly. The ship went down almost instantly.
The man found
himself swept up on the shore of an island. There was nothing else
anywhere to be seen. No person, no supplies, nothing. The man looked
around. There were some bananas and coconuts, but that was it. He was
desperate, and forlorn, but decided to make the best of it. So for the
next four months he ate bananas, drank coconut juice and mostly looked
to the sea mightily for a ship to come to his rescue.
One day, from
around the corner of the island came a rowboat. In it was the most
gorgeous woman he had ever seen, or at least seen in four months. She
was tall, tanned, and her blond hair flowing in the sea breeze gave her
an almost ethereal quality. She rowed her boat towards him.
In disbelief,
he asked, "Where did you come from? How did you get here"?
She said, "I rowed from the other side of the island. I landed on this
island when my cruise ship sank."
"Amazing", he
said, "I didn't know anyone else had survived. How many of you are
there? You must have been really lucky to have a rowboat wash-up with
you."
"It is only me", she said, "and the rowboat didn't wash up, nothing
else did."
"Well then",
said the man, "how did you get the rowboat?"
"I made the rowboat out of raw material that I found on the island,"
replied the woman. "The oars were whittled from Gum tree branches, I
wove the bottom from Palm branches, and the sides and stern came from a
Eucalyptus tree."
"But, but,"
asked the man, "what about tools and hardware, how did you do that?"
"Oh, no problem," replied the woman, "on the south side of the island
there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed. I found that
if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into
forgeable ductile iron. I used that for tools, and used the tools to
make the hardware. But, enough of that, where do you live?"
At last the man
was forced to confess that he had been sleeping on the beach.
"Well, let's row over to my place", she said. So they both got into the
rowboat and left for her side of island.
The woman
easily rowed them around to a wharf that led to the approach to her
place. She tied up the rowboat with a beautifully woven hemp rope. They
walked up a stone walk and around a Palm tree, there stood an exquisite
bungalow painted in blue and white.
"It's not
much," she said, "but I call it home. Would you like to have a drink?"
"No," said the man, "one more coconut juice and I will puke."
"It won't be coconut juice," the woman replied. "I have a still, how
about a Pina Colada?" Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man
accepted, and they sat down on her couch to talk.
After a while,
and they had exchanged their stories, the woman asked, "Tell me, have
you always had a beard?"
"No", the man replied, "I was clean shaven all of my life, and even on
the cruise ship".
"Well, if you would like to shave, there is a man's razor upstairs in
the cabinet in the bathroom."
The man, no
longer questioning anything, went upstairs to the bath room. There in
the cabinet was a razor made from a bone handle, two shells honed to a
hollow ground edge were fastened on to its end inside of a swivel
mechanism. The man shaved, showered and went back down stairs.
"You look
great," said the woman. "I think I will go up and slip into something
more comfortable." After a short time, she returned wearing fig leafs
strategically positioned and smelling faintly of gardenia.
"Tell me," she
asked, "we have both been out here for a very long time with no
companionship. You know what I mean. Have you been lonely, is there
anything that you really miss? Something that all men and woman need.
Something that it would be really nice to have right now."
"Yes there is,"
the man replied, as he moved closer to the woman while fixing a winsome
gaze upon her, "You mean you actually figured out some way to make an
Internet connection?"
Being a hacker
is kind of being a supermodel. Eventually you grow up and move on.
Kevin
Poulson, legendary hacker, 1999
You
know you are an Internet Junkie when..
When asked to your
address, your answer begins with http://
Instead of
calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail.
You chat with
your fingers, not your mouth.
You use
Netscape 4.72, and you check every week whether version 4.73 was
released.
You know the
difference between Java and Java script.
Most of your
friends have an @ in their names.
In order to
watch CNN you move to www.cnn.com
On your
business card the e-mail appears before the phone number.
You find
yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word
processor.com
You check your
mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
You can
perfectly imitate the sound pattern of your modem connecting to your
ISP.
You can think
of nineteen keystroke symbols that are far more clever than :-).
You are told
about a new program, and you are disappointed to find that it is a TV
program.
Not only do you
check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your
network address faster than your postal one.
You wake up at
3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way
back to bed.
Customer: "Can
you copy the Internet for me on this diskette?"
Ten
ways to realize your Internet connection is a little slow
Text on Web pages display as Morse Code and..
Graphics arrive via Fed Ex.
You believe a heavier string might improve your throughput
You post a message to your favorite Newsgroup and it displays a week
later.
Your credit card expires while ordering on-line.
Playboy web site exhibits "Playmate of the year"...for 1989.
You're still in the middle of downloading that popular new game, "Ping
Pong".
Everyone you talk to on the 'net phone' sounds like Forest Gump.
You receive e-mails with stamps on them.
You click the "Send" button, a little door opens on the side of your
monitor and a pigeon flies out.
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