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>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:24:36 -0400
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Theory 1:

While working through the examples for Day Eight of "Teach Yourself Java
for Macintosh in 21 Days," I accidentally created a rogue applet which
enabled a virus developed in Bulgaria to enter my system. From there, it
infected several other computer systems, including a Sony PlayStation, a
Foonley, and several Exidy Sorcerers. Service to Northern California is
only now being restored.

Theory 2:

The Men in Black finally had enough, especially of my theft of their domain
name (Blacknet). At 9:09 a.m., PDT, Clinton's black helicopter detoured on
its route and landed on my hill, abducting me for medical experiments I am
too embarrassed to describe (except that Chelsea was also involved). I am
back now, albeit subtly changed (for the better).

Theory 3:

My ISP, got.net, had a router failure on its "ZNEt" link to the outside world.



Take your pick. Or maybe we should vote? The social construction of
reality, and all.

Alas, sometimes the truth is too banal.

--Tim May






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In article <ada2fe6f030210045e74@[205.199.118.202]>,
tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:

> Theory 1:
> 
> While working through the examples for Day Eight of "Teach Yourself Java
> for Macintosh in 21 Days," I accidentally created a rogue applet which
> enabled a virus developed in Bulgaria to enter my system. From there, it
> infected several other computer systems, including a Sony PlayStation, a
> Foonley, and several Exidy Sorcerers. Service to Northern California is
> only now being restored.
> 
> Theory 2:
> 
> The Men in Black finally had enough, especially of my theft of their domain
> name (Blacknet). At 9:09 a.m., PDT, Clinton's black helicopter detoured on
> its route and landed on my hill, abducting me for medical experiments I am
> too embarrassed to describe (except that Chelsea was also involved). I am
> back now, albeit subtly changed (for the better).
> 
> Theory 3:
> 
> My ISP, got.net, had a router failure on its "ZNEt" link to the outside world.
> 
> 
> 
> Take your pick. Or maybe we should vote? The social construction of
> reality, and all.
> 
> Alas, sometimes the truth is too banal.

It's a clever piece of misdirection, "Tim", but it just won't work.

You know as well as I that that was no router failure at all, but an 
unavoidable side-effect of putting the man-in-the-middle connection that
directs all electronic communications to or from the real Tim May through
the Blue Cube at Onizuka Air Force Base.

Poor Tim - getting a sanitized, innocuous Internet feed.  Possibly none
the wiser for it.

I bet you're having fun, whoever you are, with the chance to make a
monkey out of Tim.  But we're on to you, and it's only a matter of time
before Tim is, too.

- -- 
Alan Bostick               | They say in online country there is no middle way
mailto:abostick@netcom.com | You'll either be a Usenet man or a thug for the CDA
news:alt.grelb             |    Simon Spero (after Tom Glazer)
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~abostick

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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> its route and landed on my hill, abducting me for medical experiments I am
> too embarrassed to describe (except that Chelsea was also involved). I am
> back now, albeit subtly changed (for the better).

That a medical experiment including Chelsea could improve a man is beyond
the bounds of reason.

Mr. May, are you making this up?

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