Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/23
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This scene keeps playing over, and over in my dreams!
FADE IN:
1 INT MODERN OFFICE
A wide shot shows a well dressed man, Dr. Kilgore Trout, standing before a
group of six very serious looking people seated around an oval conference
table.. His back is to them as he looks out a large window at one end of the
room. The camera dollies in as he turns. He momentarily pauses and then
opens a letter size folder marked "MOST SECRET".
The camera cuts to a close-up as he speaks:
DR. TROUT
- -Ladies, gentlemen, I have some disturbing information that has just been
received.
He looks up, and his gaze sweeps the small intent group as he continues
DR.TROUT
- - A small Ultra Dense Object has been detected hitting the Earth today; and
while it was no larger than the small red dot on a Leica, its mass was
substantial. So substantial in fact that it punched a rather deep hole into
the earth.
The camera shot switches to one of the attendees, a rather aple MAN IN
GLASSES.
MAN IN GLASSES
- -Was there any damage, Doctor
Camera pans to DR. TROUT in preparation for a one-two shot of him speaking.
DR. TROUT
- -Indeed, there was
He sighs, removes his glasses as the camera switches to a close up showing
beads of perspiration on his forehead, and upper lip.
DR. TROUT
- -IT seems that it severed a cable carrying information over the internet,
and somehow- we don't know exactly how, but one end of the cable was thrust
through a chronosynclastic infundibulum, and it tapped into some portion of
space and time where the earliest internet messages were just arriving.
There is a collective gasp.
DR. TROUT
- -It seems that the bandwidth of this phenomenon is almost infinite, and it
put every message sent over the internet the last 12 years back onto the
net. I am afraid we're going to have to re-read all of them before any new
ones can be delivered.....
FADE TO BLACK.
I awake, screaming, shouting- "CUT! CUT!
It could be worse, George!!
Dan :o)
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] network storms
> icommag@toad.net (Steve LeHuray)7/23/014:01 PM
>
> > Yes! I keep getting mail from Saturday and Sunday delivered
> over & over, I
> > delete it then when I hit recieve for new mail it all comes
> back again. And
> > I live about 20 miles from the 'tunnel'
>
> I'm having the same experience and I live over a thousand miles
> from the tunnel.
>
> George
>
>
>