If you ask me, drugs are a BAD idea. I mean, if it's not you, then it's not
you. I would rather be ME and be sitting in a basement, rather than some
powder, effectively turning my body into a slave.
Also, drugs are getting to be the past. Ask a group of junior-high
schoolers about drugs. 9 out of 10 will say that they're a mistake. As for
tobacco and alcohol, that's border-lined, but many are anti-tobacco, but
alcohol.... that's kind of next-generation. We're getting there.
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-8/Es available
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>>Uncle Roger wrote:
>>>
>>> At 11:07 PM 1/21/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>> >>I'll leave this public since it might be useful to someone...I'm 29
>now
>>> >>but when I was 16 or 17 my parents expended GREAT energy trying to
>get me
>>>
>>> >Well, I AM 17, and I'm up to 30 computers or so... Let me see if I
>can
>>> >remember them all, my web site is a partial listing.
>>>
>>> One other item that was pointed out to me in the collectibles forum
>of
>>> Compuserve -- teenagers who collect things rarely get into trouble.
>You
>>> don't see them spending money on drugs or liquor or whathaveyou, and
>they
>>> don't often end up in jail. (Yes, I'm an exception, but I wasn't
>actively
>>> collecting anything in high school.)
>>
>>What exception? In high school I actively collected science fiction
>>books since computers weren't affordable yet to a high school kid -- I
>>wore a slide rule on my belt because (1) I used it (2) that honestly
>was
>>the easiest way to carry a Pickett and (3) the HP-35 came out in my
>>junior year of high school priced about $395.00 more than I had on
>hand.
>>
>(SNIP)
>If you ask me, it is better to have a social life and do drugs (though
>I am firmly against drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and firearms) than not
>do drugs and sit for years in the basement without seeing the light
>of day. It seems to me that since we all die anyway, might as well
>enjoy. I am not brave enough to take that approach, so I sit at my
>computer all day (when I am not at school-I am in 9th grade).
>
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