[AGL] sent to Coventry and bragging

[telebob]

Jesus, Mike. Trump?  Really?

I wasn’t regularly speaking to you for other reasons, but OK.

Voting to disassemble a pluralist democracy and replace it with an insane clown asshat autocrat
will work as an additional reason to avoid dialog..

As a semi-famous artist futurist once said to me, “Good luck in the new world.”

telebob





> On Mar 23, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> some friends not talking to me because i voted for the orange man.
> 
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> 
> not having had a vast circle of friends beginning in childhood and
> throughout a longish life, i dont notice any personal distress
> 
> OTOH, after screwing up my courage, i fixed our car, a 1998 Merc
> Grand Marquis. specifically i R&R'ed (removed and replaced) the
> ignition set and spark plug of cylinder number 5. and afterwards,
> i erased the trouble code (305) with the computer reader and
> got the Check Engine light to go off.
> 
> i should mention that i just deleted some thousands of backup emails
> stored by Google. as i deleted i fleetingly saw an email by Gerry
> Storm flash by. Gerry deceased used to be wildly entertaining
> with his posts from rural New Mexico where he astrologized,
> drummed in the woods, and drove long drives to his doctor to
> treat his disease. Gerry had a good job in Austin. he was the
> president of the musicians union, but after unions were abolished,
> he turned to fixing BMWs. and wound up in rural New Mexico.
> 
> i sorta knew him from Fletcher's Raw Deal bar(s).
> 
> i remember that i turned on the archive option and off and
> on based on our collective wisdom back in the days. but
> it has been turned on for a long time now, and with my
> access to it i see that it's there day by day whether the
> traffic is active or non-existent. so maybe Gerry's wildly
> funny postings live on there if anyone cared to look.
> 
> Karen Willis at the beginning of our operation undertook
> to poisonally archive the AGL flow on her home machine
> but as we now know that is not feasible. home machines
> come and go, but we didn't have as firm a grasp on the
> limits of the technology as we do now.
> 
> Karen has changed email providers so she got automatically
> unsubscribed by the mail list's software which also
> automatically informs me by email. we have about 25
> subscribers. i used to list them with their email addresses
> from time to time - which reached a peak of about 70 - but
> there again as we morphed into the security state, that
> became a no-no. - i just thought naively at that pre-historic
> time that as we were all reasonably known to one another
> in real life, that a list of one another's emails would be
> useful like a list of phone numbers.
> 
> those of us that are still around must be struck by
> the enormous social changes since 2001. now we
> are increasingly living in a world where less and
> less of our fellows were of age in 2001. a clerk
> at the DPS when i renewed my drivers license
> was too young but apparently had informed himself
> retrospectively of what life was like in the US
> before 2001. no, he said with a laugh, a DNA
> sample was not required - yet - for a driver's license. -
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