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Dear Millard, er, um, Angela, Thank you so much for your letter. When Millard finishes yelling at you for writing it, tell him it was all my fault for being so cryptic. You've been intercepting messages sent from a Nuorleenian who fantasizes that he's engaged in some kind of battle. Yeah. That's the ticket. The Battle of New Orleans. Except the struggle extends way beyond the boundaries of this fair state. AP > Been watching this thread while ROTFL for some time now. AP > You guys are great. I couldn't keep silent any longer. Glad to see somebody's having fun. AP > So you are not a dealer? AP > Then how do you have this awesome insight, this psychic perspective AP > that seems to ring in my brain and dreams at night? Actually, I signed up with Mrs. "Do Yo Know the Way to San Jose / That's What Friends are For's Psychic 1-900 Number" and I've been plugged in to the universal mind. AP > Do you develop IPAS routines that read the brains and hearts of the small AP > MM dealers out there. I new IPAS was powerful, but I had no idea…… No. But I'll get my guys right on it. At present we're working on an IPAS that prints money. If we can get the code right, we'll all be able to afford doing just animation and chatting on Compuserve. And forget about the drudgery of Bizness or Bidness. AP > I had this dream of a giant conference table, the size of the football AP > stadium (we call it the Swamp), with the Adesk brass on the other side… We interrupt this dream for a message from our sponsor. Ms. Pate. You apparently ate the wrong thing for dinner. You're not having a dream. You're having a nightmare. It is definitely not the same dream that I have been living. AP > Now, in reality, I have to admit that Adesk is doing good things now AP > trying to protect us small guys who live on service and support, AP > not volume, from the mail order monsters < aarrgghh > who stalk our AP > customers with sirens singing discounts. AP > I really do think they are trying to help. Ms. Pate. Thank you for your support. Now put your helmet on and get back down in the trenches. The bullets are flying way too fast and furious and I really don't want to see you get hurt. There are no alligators in California. At least, none that I am aware of. Some lost souls, some misguided. But alligators. Nah. I don't think so. Now about these mail order monsters that you speak of. Where exactly are they located? Where do they get the products they are selling? These are rhetorical questions, there is no need to answer. Keep your head down. AP > I'll stick with the desk as long as I am able to do so. MAJOR DITTOS AP > They have done good things for the world many times AP > and IMHO blown it a few times too. Another round of dittos everybody. AP > (someday I'll write a book) Hey! Now you're cruising through familiar territory! If you would like a collaborator or iffin ya can use the soiveces of a desent copy edditor just SCREAM. Yo Kevin! AP > Proper politics aside… AP > ever heard of the harvesting procedure of cutting down vertical market AP > apps so they become horizontal ?? Politics aside? So you're not running for office. Better run for cover. AP > It kind of like logging, but nobody hears the tree when it falls. AP > Just a silent scream. Does it sound something like this? HEY EVERYBODY WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AP > (now I'm really in trouble…)<ggg> Just jesting folks… Hmmm. Could be. those three ggg's might not be enuff. Try a couple of smiley faces next time. :^) ;-> :-] Nah. Guess not. People can't hear you laughing either. AP > Your attitude is refreshing, and entertaining, so I thought I would AP > say hello and applaude. Heck. With you for an audience, I might reconsider my profession. Wonder if Foust's stand-up comedian friends would like some company? AP > I was floored to read that you are not a dealer! Sounds like you been spending a lot of time on that floor Ms. Pate. ROTFL AP > Please let us know if we can do anything anytime to help you. To quote a wise sage from Florida: " Be careful what you ask for… You'll generally get it…." AP > I feel for those 6 dealers in N'awlins and their families. AP > I wonder how many have bitten the dust in the past year or so. Actually, We lost five in the past year. One is still hustling on the outskirts of town. But he doesn't depend on Autodesk for his existence. He's a super dealer for Truevision and a vendor of many other products. Then there's that guy out in the swamps. New Orleans is a slow market. We're coming into our own though. We lost the oil industry and the economy went to hell. The inhabitants, at least the corporate ones and their families, went to Houston. Our political system has always been notorious for being totally bizarre. You would have thought that we would have been the new Las Vegas given the history of the city of New Orleans, what with all of the gambling, Red Light District, French Quarter, Riverboats and shhhhh (mafia.) But noooooooo. Mississippi, our backwards, ooops, backwoods friends to the east got their act together faster than you can say "Edwin Edwards" and now they have a golden coast of beaches and casinos. Not that I really care for gambling. I'm not sure how it's going to impact New Orleans. Lord knows, we've got enough problems already. And I don't really blame it on the governor either. It just seemed like something funny to say. But our state sure needs to pull out of the slump. And the things you speak of battling are the same thing small businesses and large have to deal with in my home state. That's why I look forward to conventions like SIGGRAPH. It's not the only one coming to town. Sheesh. We have one of the largest convention centers in the world. And the sites ain't bad here either. But SIGGRAPH is my favorite. There isn't enough time to do all of the things I want to do at SIGGRAPH. And I am so glad it's coming to New Orleans. Maybe more of this high tech stuff will rub off on the local economy and we'll find a new place in the sun. We're ripe and ready for it. Kevin Gibson Animation Nation <tm> -=It's a Southern Thang.=- This is what I do: animate 1 : to give spirit and support to : Encourage 2 a: to give life to b: to give vigor and zest to 3 : to move to action 4 a: to make or design in such a way that apparent spontaneous lifelike movement is effected b: to produce in the form of an animated cartoon P.S. For a more comprehensive collection of the issues addressed by this here author set your age selection back 30 days and search for messages from and to 75313,620. That will get you started. P.P.S. We don't talk about hurricanes in this thread. That topic is addressed in the "It's the Stupidity" thread. I'll be posting a weather report up there shortly. P.P.P.S. I'm thinking of starting a new thread called "Micron Green." Just so we can talk non-political shop. My mailbox is backing up, but it's on the do list. Unless somebody beats me to it. That's an invitation to you AND ALL YOU LURKERS.