Fear and Loathing Scrawl

A Geekcentric Journey...

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Fear and Loathing on the Internet

This started out as a series of .sigs on the newsgroup alt.geek. (More on alt.geek alt.below.) Then the silly stuff kinda grew and grew and became an obsession. Of sorts. If you've ever read Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, you might actually find this amusing. Then again, maybe not. Thanks to Paul Zanca for forcing my hand on this.

The Usenet Travelogue Project

What do Jack Kerouac and Donna Summer have in common? They are both quoted in the introduction to our TRAV FAQ. Gardner Trask (trask@world.std.com) and I are on a quest to visit all the 'froups on Usenet one at a time. Here is how it started.
That Fiorentino CHYK

Lisa Higgins's "Travels With Gigo"

I think Lisa Higgins ( lisarea@netcom.com) is a way K3WL writer-CHYK. Sadly, she is too lazy...er...I mean busy to write a novel or finish a screenplay or anything--which is too bad, because, if she did, she could make bazillions of greenbacks and her Cyber-Pals could appear on talk shows and neato stuff like that.

The alt.geek FAQ

 In September of 1994, I returned to Usenet after an 8-year absence. Two of the groups I immediately stumbled into were alt.buddha.short.fat.guy and alt.geek. A.b.s.f.g already had a FAQ. Alt.geek didn't. Here's the FAQ that Basehead and I put together. The absfg FAQ is much funnier, so I haven't included a link. Right. Because I don't want you to compare the two.

Well, that's about it for now. If you want to send me e-mail (trichard@ionet.net) to tell me that Hunter Thompson would cut out my pineal gland and feed it to me unseasoned if he were ever forced to look at my inane beabling, go ahead and make my day.

Really.

Oh yeah, I was going to so say something about how most people CLAIM that their web pages are kinda works in progress and whatnot and how you should come back later when everything is fixed up and such.

HA! As of today (January 19, 1996), my page is FINISHED!!!!

So THERE!!!

Squeezes,
Tom Richardson

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Why was this page blacked out for so long? Well, first of all, it's because I was so lazy that I blacked it out during the free speech protest thingie that was organized in...ah... February of 1996 and I left it black until today. Also, I think it was because Tjames claimed that he had the ugliest home page on the web and I wanted to prove him wrong. On *that* I think I succeeded.