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. STARLINK-IRC NETWORK NEWS
- Delete anaheim.ca.us from your server list. Add to
your list: pensacola.fl.us. StarLink-IRC.org (199.120.223.107). Pensacola
is in test, with busterc as the administrator.
- Willco (of #Norwich) is a new IRC Operator on pensacola,
and is in training to become server administrator there. (Congrats, Willco!)
- Pensacola is co-administered by wullie and busterc
- To keep informed of server changes, type /links in
mIRC.
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THIS MONTH'S CELEBRATIONS
- Let's party!
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by lois
Personal Celebrations:
March 28 OldMan's birthday (#Norwich)
April 08 Lilbear's birthday (#Norwich)
April 16 busterc's birthday (#Norwich)
April 19 Retee and Jim (#Norwich) anniversary
Belated good wishes to the following:
Birthdays
- 02 debA
- 05 NOLady
- 05 g-force
- 06 andrew
- 14 ClassyF
- 14 chief
Anniversary
(If we do not have your birthday or anniversary date,
let us know so we can celebrate with you. Tell us which channel you are
on, please.)
DATES YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS!
Mar 20th Spring Equinox
Mar 21st California Strawberry Day
Mar 22nd National Goof Off Day
Mar 23rd National Chip&Dip Day
Mar 24th Phillipines Independence Day
Mar 25th Greece Independence Day
Mar 26th Make Up Your Holiday Day
Mar 27th Lazy Moochers Day
Mar 28th Palm Sunday
Mar 29th Delaware Swedish Colonial Day
Mar 30th National Hotdog Day
Mar 31st National Clams on a Half Shell Day
Apr 1st First Day of Passover/April Fools' Day (Take a fool to lunch)
Apr 2nd Good Friday
Apr 3rd National Find a Rainbow Day
Apr 4th Easter Sunday
Apr 5th National Raisin and Spice Bar Day
Apr 6th Jump Over Things Day
Apr 7th No Housework Day
Apr 8th International Bird Day
Apr 9th All Over Again Day
Apr 10th Humane Day
Apr 11th National Cheese Fondue Day
Apr 12th Look Up at the Sky Day
Apr 13th Blame Somebody Else Day
Apr 14th National Pecan Day
Apr 15th National Gripers Day
Apr 16th National Stress Awareness Day
Apr 17th National Cheeseball Day
Apr 18th National Animal Crackers Day
Apr 19th National Amaretto Day
Apr 20th National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day
Events in History
Mar 21st Alcatraz Prison closed (1963)
Mar 22nd Niagra Falls ran out of water due to a drought (1903)
Mar 23rd Canadas' First newspaper published (1752)
Mar 24th UK parliament passed Quartering Act (1765)
Mar 25th Maryland first settled (1634)
Mar 26th John & Yoko's Bed-In began (1969)
Mar 27th Alaska Earthquake (1964)
Mar 28th First seaplane flew (1910)
Mar 29th Coca-Cola invented (1886)
Mar 30th Eraser topped pencil patented (1858)
Mar 31st Eiffel Tower opened (1889)
Apr 1st Automatic Record Changer introduced (1924)
Apr 2nd First Easter Egg Hunt (1877)
Apr 3rd Pony Express established (1860)
Apr 4th First Home Phone installed (1877)
Apr 5th Noah's Ark Grounded on Mt. Ararat
Apr 6th Perry reached the North Pole (1909)
Apr 7th First TV transmission (1927)
Apr 8th Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, CA (1986)
Apr 9th Beatles officially dissolved their partnership (1970)
Apr 10th Safety Pin patented (1849)
Apr 11th Popeye first appeared (1929)
Apr 12th First Space Shuttle Launched (1981)
Apr 13th Steam Power Brake patented (1869)
Apr 14th Cordless Telephone introduced (1983)
Apr 15th McDonalds restaurant 1st opened in San Bernadino, CA (1955)
Apr 16th Book of the Month Club established (1926)
Apr 17th Ford Mustang introduced (1964)
Apr 18th First laundromat opened in Ft. Worth, TX (1934)
Apr 19th First Plutonium Bomb tested (1948)
Apr 20th Cook reached the North Pole (1908)
HIDDEN TREASURES OF SL-IRC (by
debA)
I thought it might be a nice idea to interview some
interesting people who are Starlink-IRC regular chatters that SL-IRC people
might not get to know unless they were hanging around the channel where
these people could be found. I normally can be found in #Just4Fun and I
chose to interview our very own Pops aka poips. Pops has always tickled
my funny bone whenever he has shown up in channel .......so let's get
to know Pops. :)
<DebA> Hey pops......can I do an interview
with you for the starlink-irc newsletter?
<poips> sure. I'm an open book. trouble is,
everybody has already read me Pops has been married to the same lady for
quite some time. How long?
<pops> 52 great years
<poips> 53 years in July
<poips> July 13, the lucky day
<poips> We were married in St. Luke's Cathedral
in Ancon, CZ What was Pops willing to share about Mrs. Pops?
<poips> Now there is the gold mine in our family
<poips> Mom is an elegant lady, we're both
81. Pops and Mom's children?
<poips> Got two solid gold kids, a boy and
a girl How long has Pops been chatting?
<poips> I couldn't keep my mouth shut when
I was born!!!!!!
<poips> My first sentence was "when are
they going to invent MIRC?" How did Pops get started with computers?
<poips> Let's see, I retired about 17 years
ago so I must have got hooked about 15 years ago.
<poips> While I was working, I was using computers.
When I retired, that was the one big thing I missed so I had to get one.
It was a Franklin--strictly floppy disks. There wasn't a net then
<DebA> how did you become part of #just4fun?
<poips> roaming around--a newbie--and I ran
into Fern. She told me about some good places
<poips> Carol, debo and juju adopted me the
first time I came in.
<DebA> how long have you been with j4f?
<poips> I've been here probably about two years
<DebA> do you hang out in any other places
to chat?
<poips> Spend most of my time playing games
and in icq
<DebA> does mom ever get online?
<poips> NOOOO. she won't come near the puter.
hahaha.
<poips> My computer room is Off Limits--not
because of me but because of her.
<poips> She says she's a computer widow <poips>
She's the greatest but thinks computers are too advanced for her
<DebA> somehow I doubt that...she was smart
enough to marry you....sounds like a smart lady to me
<poips> she is a smart lady--was V.P. of a
bank when she retired
<DebA> of all the things that you have seen
or done in your life, what would you consider to be the most influential?
<poips> WHOA-----gotta think about that.
<poips> Probably the war years
<DebA> in what way?
<poips> Also the way my parents raised me
<poips> Experiences I'd never dreamed of and
all the memories now
<DebA> were you in the military ?
<DebA> how long were you in the service and
what branch?
<poips> USARCARIB (Army) five years and CAIRC
(AirForce) 5 years
<poips> Our zone was Central and South America.
Living in Panama was great. I loved the country and the people
<poips> CZ was Canal Zone which no longer exists.It's
all Panama now <poips> my daughter was born in a place that isn't.
hahahaha
<DebA> any outstanding achievements for you
or mom?
<poips> nah, just an average life--was just
going to say, MY FAMILY
<poips> I got the Mr. Shrubber Award for 1998
- Just4Fun!!!!!!!
<DebA> sounds like you had the "American
Dream" pops
<poips> I've made some wonderful friends on
the net. Did I tell you that one friend from New Zealand visited us last
year and is coming back again this year. Another couple from Germany have
visited us twice
<DebA> how long have you been chatting with
them? <poips> Probably a couple of years. They knew my daughter first
<DebA> do you have any pet peeves?
<poips> YES: Young punks that are trying to
be tough and use dirty language
Pops shared many other things with me, but if you
want to know what they were, you'll have to drop into #Just4Fun and find
out from him. You may want to know that all the ladies in J4F fight over
Pops....there's a stiff competition for his lap. Speaking of which....
DebA distracts carol^ by tossing a bag of M&Ms to her, tosses a blanket
over puff^s head so she can't see Pops is in the channel, trips Juju^,
tells debo^ that Elvis is sitting right next to her and runs like crazy
to be the first in Pops lap!!!!!!!! You can also find out about Pops and
other #Just4Fun regulars at the web
site:
POPS, thank you very much for this interview. ((((((((love
ya POPS!!!)))))))))
If anyone would like me to interview someone they
know or would be willing to have me do an article on their channel, please
contact me via email I_wonder_why@hotmail.com DebA
#NORWICH
#Norwich was originally opened as a help channel for
the users of Chenango Net Services located in Norwich, NY. CNS had several
sub nets, one of which was norwich.net. There was a core group of users
from literally around the world looking for a new place to chat, rather
than a channel most belonged to at the time on a different net. We began
to meet on #Norwich. CNS support was no longr using the channel and Busterc
was listed as the owner, so our group then turned #Norwich to our new home.
Soon we were meeting there daily, rather than on our old channel.
We decided to try a new concept. We elected to run the
channel by committee and let the users make their own rules. The committee
was Buster, gyrene, lois, OldMan, and willco. That concept has served the
channel well and the committe remains today as it was then, with the exception
of OldMan. Sharkie now fills his chair. We held meetings where the users
told us how they would like to see a channel run, what to allow and what
not to allow.
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There had also always been a #Norwich on Starlink-IRC
as well. We grew tired of all the sewer garbage on the other net, dropped
#Norwich there and moved our gathering to #Norwich Starlink-IRC a little
over a year ago. Some of you may recall our first birthday bash held in
#Townhall.
We have a few youngers members, but most of the #Norwich
members are 50 plus. We enjoy sharing lively mature conversation, sharing
.wav and midi files, without a lot of line flooding. The door is always
open. Our general to[ic tends to vary from the main stream. Drop in and
visit! Outside of enjoying yourself, we only have a couple of policies.
The language is kept to a general day to day content. We are not prudes
by any means, but donot permit "gutter talk" on the channel.
We also don't discuss the two big inflammatory subjects of Politics and
Religion on open channel. If you wish to discuss those topics, please do
so in private chat. Our door is always open!
- Busterc, owner of #Norwich
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WHO'S DOING WHAT?
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by lois and amazing
Maran of #40nHolding became a very proud grandma on
Feb 19th to Joel Christopher, weighing in at 7 lbs 1 oz. Congrats, Maran!!
A Bithday Bash was held in #Townhall for NOLady and
g-force and was attended by many of their friends. Unfortunatly the birthday
people almost didnt attend. NOLady was a "bit" late in arriving
due to a prior engagement, and g-force was away on holidays in Las Vegas,
but nevertheless a GREAT time was held by all!
A Birthday Brunch was held for ClassyF in #townhall
on Sunday, Mar 14th. Many friends arrived to sample the brekky buffet and
we found out that ClassyF LOVES garlic with her eggs. Must be Italian.
hehehe
February was also the time for a Birthday Party for
our Amazing SLIRC Staff member on February 22nd. She showed up for her
party, and #townhall walls were bursting with revellers crowding in to
give their good wishes!
#Norwich's two young Danes, rygter and mukke, left
on a holiday in Ireland March 5 - 22 with their school class, their trip
to coincide with St. Patrick's Day. They were looking forward to the dancing
in the streets in Dublin. (And perhaps a bit of green beer?)
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FOGWEB FOLLIES
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A short column of made-up facts and
non-information brought to you by your friendly neighborhood arachnid
We're being invaded by people from dalnet !!!!!!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEK. Lock the doors .. there are billions of them !!! Ok. Five
maybe. They SEEM nice enough, but they really like #TownHall ... and the
rest of the net, so you never know... they even like the spider's channel.
The blue one has also noticed people hanging out in
#TownHall on sunday morning for the free brunch buffet. Some people will
do anything for free food. Or snax.
And speaking of warped priorities, this reporter has
learned that one of OUR admins (who, alas, I am "force"d to keep
anonymous) had a choice between going to Las Vegas with a companion for
his birthday or hanging out on the net. This person of misplaced priorities
actually WENT to VEGAS instead of hanging out HERE.!!! Yes. one more for
the unbelievable but true file.
The intrepid spider was at Lois' birthday party .(held
here on the net, I might add!) .. but, wow, talk about long winded acceptance
speeches... Some people you give em a soapbox and they just go on and on
and on and on and ..well ...its just sad. The text of the speech is (in
full): SPEECH: Thank yawl and I promise not to have another 80th! END OF
SPEECH yak yak yak yak yak yak (Editor's Note: Lois is misquoted - she
never has said "yak yak etc")
A certain treeperson was observed munching away on
something called an instant pot roast.. which at 20 minutes isn't real
instant. Prolly wasn't even a pot roast, just a batch of polathingies all
nailed together. Sometimes you just have to wonder about the maple leaf
set here .. ya really do.
One of our intrepid canadians made their way to Raincouver
for a visit this week ... I suppose he went by footbus to the busbus to
the planebus and then by boatbus to the dirtbus and on to wherever he's
staying. They have a lot of buses there. Apparently no airplanes, ferries,
or trains .. just a lot of buses. (This reporter suspects its just the
mold from the rain plugging up the brain cells, but I could be wrong.)
Until next issue .. -30-
PS Unpaid advertisement: A certain grammydragon is
soliciting again. Hmm. Oh. I mean soliciting a flannel teddy to fit a dragon.
Anyone having knowledge of the whereabouts of such an item of apparel REALLY
NEEDS TO GET A LIFE. Uh. I mean, should let the dragon know where it is,
costs of shipping (and I do mean SHIPping) and handling (of the teddy,
handling the dragon is prolly a LOT extra).
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NEW STARS IN OUR LINK
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by Treecat
A warm welcome to this month's new channels and their
owners.
If you have a chance, do stop in and give these folks a friendly Hi!
- #Taiwan - Natural
- #kampung - taJul
- #SIBL - Shaun
- #cafemac - Weedhopper
- #uss-excalibur - CaptJason
- #raven_popups - Honey
- #50's-R-US - ClassyF
- #ysams_corner - ysam
- #beginner - HaAwK
- #Yo-Yo - Toby
- #alliance - FaLcOnAtOr
- #Cyberparty - elastic
- #30+ - Naylin
- #Dot-Pops - DotMatrix
- #chatarena - ManchuU
- #FAS - garnet
- #uss-lexington - CaptWaugh
- #Country&OldiesMp3 - MadDawg1
- #ChatHouse - LordRydane
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TRAVEL
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Places to go on the net
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THE MEETING ROOM
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by Amazing
KIDZ TRIVIA:9:00PM EST Saturdays in #KidzChat.
Hosted by maia, the weekly kids Trivial Pursuit game!
TRIVIA GAME: 9:00PM EST Wednesdays
in #WedNiteTrivia.
Hosted by NOLady, a weekly trivia game for the grown
ups (18+)
OUTBURST: Occurs randomly (mostly Fridays) in
#Just4Fun
Hosted by somebody, this is a fun and exciting game
you have to try.
Regular
Network Event Schedule
Note: All times are Eastern US
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SUN
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9:30
PM
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#TownHall
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Network
Wide User Meeting **
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MON
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9:00
PM
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#TownHall
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User
Classes and Seminars
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TUE
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WED
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9:00
PM
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#WedNiteTrivia
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TRIVIA
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THU
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8:00
PM
9:30
PM
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#OldRadio
#TownHall
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Fans
of Old Time Radio
Network
Wide User Meeting **
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FRI
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9:00
PM
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#Just4Fun
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Outburst
Game! Fun for All
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SAT
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9:00
PM
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#KidzChat
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Kidz
Only Trivia Nite!
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NET MEETINGS:9:30pm EST Sun/Thu in #TownHall
Hosted by Amazing, SL-IRC Net meetings are now held
Sunday and Thursday nights, 9:30 ET in #TownHall. Everyone is invited to
attend!
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Unpaid Advertisement
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RESERVE TOWNHALL FOR YOUR MEETING!
#Townhall can be reserved for parties or meetings.
Send an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org
if you are interested in reserving the channel for an event. An email will
be sent back, confirming the reservation. Put #townhall in the SUBJECT
of the mail, and date, time and reason in the BODY.
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Yet Another Unpaid Advertisement!.
there has to be some way to make a buck here
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THE WORKSHOP - PUTER TIPS
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Contributed Tips and Information
- Tip # 999: Always unplug the PC before washing it.
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THE POETRY CORNER
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contributed poems
* Cyberwocky *
With Apologies to Lewis Carroll)
'Twas e-mail, and the ftp
Did route and telnet to the node.
All rlogin to Xterms free
To let gopher download.
``Beware the Internet, my son!
The posts that spam, the speech that's free!
Beware the Netscape cache, and shun
The AOL mail id!''
He took his HP mouse in hand.
Long time a higher bandwidth sought --
And wished had he for his old PC
A faster modem bought.
And, as that wistful thought he gripped,
The Internet, with bait of flame,
Ran applets through the Javascript,
And mailbombed as it came!
The war he waged! As on each page
The HP mouse he double-clicked!
And 'twas absurd, the hype he'd heard
'Bout sites that he had picked.
``And, hast thou surfed the Internet?
Come link my page, my newbie bud!
O Lycos night! Yahoo! Excite!''
He messaged on his MUD.
'Twas e-mail, and the ftp
Did route and telnet to the node.
All rlogin to Xterms free
To let gopher download.
by Mike ``Hammerwocky'' Hammond
Lois
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