[81955] in Cypherpunks
Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue Jun 17 11:46:40 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970616233000.0075a9f4@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:12:44 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:30 am -0400 on 6/17/97, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Foo ... On a list with several millionares, people who make the
> New York Times Magazine cover, people who get in the Times for
> successfully suing the NSA, college students who get covered on
> National Public Radio, people who were in Wired before it was c001,
> people who drop in on Esther in New York because they'll be too
> busy to see her at Hackers', people who were Xanadudes or SGML hackers
> decades before the Web caught on, people who were on the Well
> before that Grateful Dead lyricist got there, various wizards of
> speed and time, folks who have Japanese tv crews show up for their parties
> and already know Tim Leary when he drops... by, I'd say we have enough
> people who are or know Silicon Valley insiders to really complain much
> when people from the Other Coast talk about who _they_ had lunch with :-)
Wow. How utterly cool. I guess it's time to move. Your country sounds waay
better than my country...
;-)
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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