Conference back40::soapbox

 Yesterday I happened upon something in a CD based encyclopedia that got
 me to thinking about the movie "2001".  Last night at dinner, my son 
 and I get to talking about "2001".  I get home last night, turn on the
 tube and it was on!




 Jim

    Shrimp...  Plate of shrimp...

    .139
    
    I watched it.  And after this year's big celebration of his birth I was
    surprised to discover that we've all been wrong.  HAL was *not* born on
    January 12, 1997, at least not in the film.  He might have been, in the
    book; I never could stomach Clarke's writing.)  In the film he says, "I
    became operational at the H-A-L plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the
    twelfth of January, nineteen ninety-two."

 I was listening for that part as well, and was somewhat befuddled what with
 all the fol-de-rol recently.


 I've seen that movie about a 100 times and I still don't understand it.



 Jim

    read 2010. Great book! And it explains what happened to Dave.

    Where "explains" is a relative term.

    Didn't get it, eh?

Supposedly the book has the date 1997, the movie 1992.  Hardly the only
change (Saturn vs. Jupiter etc.)

If I remember correctly there was a note in either SOAPBOX or TRIVIA entered
on the 1992 date that mentioned that "today is HAL's birthday".

My mother's "boyfriend" is friends with Bruce Claflin's FIL.

    that's nearly interesting.

    No, it isn't.

Fine, BE THAT WAY.

It's not like I have nothing better to do than to try and breathe a 
bit of life into this conference, so if you're less than impressed 
than by all means please tell me.

    
    We're less than impressed.
    

    not only that, would you mind formatting your notes to 80 collumns so we
    all can read them?

But why would we want to read them?

    {italian shrug}

.150 appears to be no more than 80 columns wide ... I just checked it 
out from VMS and it's all visible.

And, like Gerald said, if it's so uninteresting, does it matter if 
you can read it or not?