Chapter One is here

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), January 21, 2000

Answers

I've always had a problem "blurting out"

I didn't understand.

I'm sorry...

-- former marine (going@in.exile), January 21, 2000.

Hi former,

If you're saying what I think you're saying, not to worry. Everyone blurts now and then.

Regardless, this "Air Force Brat" thanks you for your service to my country.

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), January 21, 2000.

FM

Thanks for posting chapter one. I was smiling as I read it although I kept thinking this would be something that Kafka might have written about if he had lived another 70+years. Kind of his deathbed manuscript to a living theatre of the absurd.

FM, could you please (please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please) change "stockpiling information" to "hoarding information". You probably will have to add an entire chapter to explain the change, but it would capture more of the "perception management" that was/is occurring.

Thanks again for your generosity in sharing your book with us.

PA Engineer

-- PA Engineer (PA Engineer@longtimelurker.com), January 24, 2000.

Yo, PA Engineer!

You wrote:

"FM, could you please (please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please) change "stockpiling information" to "hoarding information". You probably will have to add an entire chapter to explain the change, but it would capture more of the "perception management" that was/is occurring."

Well, the general rule of journalism is that I cannot change any words that were documented as having emerged from someone's mouth.

Senator Bennett used the term "stockpiling." Unless I was kidnapped by aliens, I'm pretty certain he spoke those words on national television.

As for my subsequent references to his quote, you are most welcome to email me privately, and we can discuss this further. My email addresses are, and have always been real.

Thanks for checking in!

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), January 25, 2000.

Way cool......

Most humbly recommend kind author do massive global-level search and replace for "Y2k" into "Y2K" lest readers begin assuming she has DiEtEr-like proofreading ability......

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), January 26, 2000.

Robt.;

I most humbly suggest that Y2k is the proper rendition, Dieter-esque or not. And I think that an explanation of how Y2k came about (vs Y2K) would make for interesting insight in the book. Only a bunch of techno-dweeb anal retentive engineers with absolutely no social life could have spent the time necessary to make a solid case for Y2k. But someone did, and I think the explanation behind it is a hilarious look at how these things come about.

Do a deja news search on comp.software.year-2000, and you'll eventually find a whole series of threads on the subject. By the end, you'll be bustin

-- Rick Cowles (rick@csamerica.com), January 26, 2000.

AOL tells me the link doesn't work, isn't there, etc.?

-- sarah (sarahlyao@aol.com), February 04, 2000.

You're right Sara. I moved the link I just forgot to update it!

Sorry.

Remediating now!

:(

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), February 05, 2000.

Hi Marianne,

As I recall, one of your emails indicated disappointment that there wasn't more discussion about the book. Well, here goes:

I haven't been able to get past CH 1 (I've tried a couple times). Been there, done that, (still doing that if the truth be told, and will be picking up pieces for the next 3 months or so) and the rehash just isn't holding my attention.

Unfortunately, I don't have any constructive suggestions. The trenches and presonal preps / stress burnt me out and I'm ready to move on. Sorry.

I check in occasionally (maybe maybe it an unhealthy addiction) - to see what old friends are up to. Its a good bunch...

jh

-- john hebert (jt_hebert@hotmail.com), February 11, 2000.

Hmmm...maybe it would be easier to get past Chapter One if you had it installed in your bathroom as "light reading material?" :)

Seriously, I understand the "burnout" thing. Buy what's going to be interesting I think, is when we begin to consider everything that went on--from the vantage point of a full year of hindsight beginning on January 1, 2000.

Toward the end of this year, I expect the media to begin doing a crop of "remember when" stories, examining how people's lives were changed as a result of what they did to prepare for the "Y2k monster." (Note: I'm not projecting that these stories will be deep, or even accurate--just that--at some point, we'll see them.)

Later! :)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), February 11, 2000.

FM,

You made my day. I've seen telephones and even TV's in in the bathrooms some la-de-dah hotels San Franciso and DC but the image of a keyboard and screen in front of the toilet at home brought a spreading smile to my face that turned into a chuckle...

Then I thought about crawling around in the attic, through fiberglass insulation and whatnot to get the can online... so much for the smile.

Then I considered my wife's reaction to such antics... smile is back.

Have a good one.

jh

-- john hebert (jt_hebert@hotmail.com), February 14, 2000.