Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 18 2001 - 22:28:44 GMT

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    Hi Scott Chase -

    >I haven't had any tattoos or piercings so far. I'm aloof when others are
    >discussing the latest episodes of the series "Survivor". I never caved into
    >the trend of religiously following Seinfeld, a hopelessly unfunny show. I'm
    >doing pretty good at meme reduction.

    While I too have remained mostly unsullied by bucking under to the
    popular trends, I also remain horribly encumbered by trivial pocketfuls
    of factoids.

    Staying aloof from the mainstream is a popular pastime here in the
    People's Republik of Cambridge- it is still a source of great distinction
    to mention at all the right parties that you do not have a television....
    While I never have watched a Seinfeld episode, I can tell you there was
    always a Macintosh computer in the back of the big room, and at many
    times, a Klein bicycle hanging up (at first with an inverted fork) in the
    back room, and one of the guest stars in one of the few hour episodes was
    a Playmate called Samantha Dorman. So, I could quite possibly impress
    even a Seinfeld aficionado with these effluvious snippets.

    So, if trivia are memes, then I doubt anyone, short of a hermit, could
    reduce to a starvation level.

    - Wade

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