Re: The return of a robot...

[Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com>]

Don't worry about your flame wars, there are enough already in this
newsgroup...
Boris Guenter wrote:
> 
> Greetings! After nearly two years  in Limbo I'm glad to report that I've
> finally managed to regain my Internet access. Who am I? Two years are an
> eternity in the computer world and I think I have to introduce myself.
> 
> I think there are three groups of people in csa2: People who don't know me,
> because they are new here; people who know me and like me and the rest.
> 
> For the first group, I would like to say a few words about my insignificant
> person. Call me Boris in real (?) life, Marvin in the InterNet. Why Marvin?
> Because after many years with arrogant profs, corrupt officials, slimy
> students, snappy secretaries and egocentric programmers, I have correctly
> deduced that many people do not want another nice person. They just want a
> manically depressed robot. They wanted it, they got it!
> 
> Call me an unfiltered realist, a Douglas Adams fan, an Apple II enthusiast,
> manically depressed, and a smartass. ;-)
> 
> Call me mostly harmless, the keeper of ftp.uni-kl.de, an anti-bureaucrat, a
> nature lover, an evolutionist,  a fanatic anti-fanatic, a humanist, another
> PC slave worker, a dreamer, a wanna-be II gs programmer, a sarcast
> and a cool guy!
> 
> For everybody in the second group who has been puzzled because I have left
> without a trace in 1996, I have to apologize myself. Every ten years, or so,
> everybody has a period where he has to reorganize his life
> completely. With my exmatriculation, my Internet access went down and I
> have been struggling very hard in 1997 on flea markets and street markets.
> No money, no job, no future. I have tried to improve my II gs
> knowledge in my spare time, but then my Focus hard card crashed, taking all
> the created graphics and icons into oblivion and rendering my II gs hardly
> useable for almost one year.
> 
> Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse
> it suddenly does...
> 
> Finally, I have managed to get a job in a small company, I don't know if I am
> good enough to keep it. The times are hard in these days, but I have got a
> break at least. Time and money are still valuable, but I have regained
> a working internet connection and I plan to do good things for the II
> community again in the next months.
> 
> Enough talking, I guess you are all interested in software and not in
> reasons why I don't have any! I have excavated a lot of  Public Domain disks
> and I plan to blow the dust off my ftp site again. Feel free to check
> ftp.uni-kl.de in regular intervals for new additions.
> 
> Everybody can feel free to add a link to this legal site, I know and respect
> the copyright laws (although I am a little stinker who enjoys bending the
> laws as far as I can without actually breaking them ;-) I plan to build an
> archive of patches and deprotects for various software. Everybody is
> invited to send me some.
> 
> I will also offer space for any demos and announcements from everybody
> who has written something. The big ftp sites are the best marketplace for
> all persons who still have an Apple II. I have still not too much time,
> so be patient if you upload something, please.
> 
> Special greetings to the Vogon constructor fleet! Fortunately (for them) I
> have not been able to bring my anti-bureaucracy web page back on-line yet.
> But I think the ftp site is far more important than childish flame wars
> and if life doesn't get too tough for me again, I will try to expand my
> Apple II activities again.
> 
> By the way, big thanks to Rubywand for his alternative FAQ. I have just read
> them and I think they have been a big deal of work. Much better than Vogon
> Poetry. Keep up your love for the Apple II.
> 
> Sorry for the last period of inactivity again. You can believe me, I have not
> enjoyed it very much. Even if I never manage to steal enough time to learn
> IIgs programming, I will try to help as much as I can. Expect a few
> Douglas Adams quotes and even more software in the future... :-)
> 
>                                                  Don't panic
> 
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> "The first ten million years were the worst               __
> and the second ten million years, they were     |\/| /\ |__||  | | |\  |
> the worst too. The third ten million years      |  ||__||\  |  | | | \ |
> I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into   |  ||  || \  \/  | |  \|
> a bit of decline."
> 
> Need Apple II gs software? Visit ftp.uni-kl.de...
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