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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: I'm Disappointed In You People.  No Hugs For You.
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:13:40 GMT
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I'm disappointed in you people.

Lately nobody's pointed out to a.r.k how many books, magazines, and newspapers
I've been mentioned in.

Don't you folks realize that the first person to spot a media mention
of Kibo gets an AUTOMATIC VIRTUAL HUG?  (Or the cash equivalent.)
And those who actually mail me clippings for me scrapbook, well, you
get a CUSTOM VIRTUAL HUG!!!  (Or the Cybercash equivalent.)

For instance, in the April '98 issue of the Boston Software Newsletter,
page 4, there is a trivia contest:

"7.  James W. Parry, a well-known Net personality, has been called
     'a fixture in the pantheon of Net gods, maybe even a bathroom fixture.'
     By what name is he better known?"

Because it wasn't multiple-choice, I'd love to see the incorrect answers
they get.  (A lot of "Kibbo" and "Kido" ones, plus a few "Archimedes
Plutonium"s.  Gosh, I'm glad there are only a few Archimedes Plutoniums.)

Similarly, in the April 13 '98 issue of ComputerWorld, there's a photo
of me in a gas mask (you've seen that photo before, taken by E. Jay O'Connell --
I just posed for some new ones in a more scary costume, so that the next
batch of magazines will have something else to work with.)  I'm advising
people how to save time by not using the Internet.

(Well, it *is* a print magazine, in much the same way that TV Guide always
has that long "Robins Report" on why WE MUST NEVER TRUST TELEVISION AS
A SOURCE OF NEWS, UNLIKE THE NEW YORK POST.)

So anyway, you still have a chance to be the first one to spot Kibo
in Fast Company next month, and tell me the page number I'm mentioned
on so that I won't have to suffer through all those ads aimed at
yuppie versions of BIFF or handle that toxic clay-coated paper that
feels like cooked lasagna dipped in very-very-very-slow-drying cement
made with mineral oil instead of water.

                                -- K.

                                "...the hairy arm of the U.S. Government
                                can reach out and touch anyone
                                but they can't reach out and touch us."
                                -- guy from the Health Dept. on CNN