[Air-L] Post article

[elw at stderr.org]

> I think we should develop a carefully worded script, something we can 
> just plug topics and words into. In the film Bull Durham (1988) Cosner 
> coaches Robbins on how to talk to the press and tells him to say the 
> same thing no matter what question he is asked: To wit-
>
> Y'know, I'm just happy to be here and hope I can help the ballclub. I 
> just want to give it my best shot and good Lord willing, things'll work 
> out...  gotta play 'em one day at a time, Y'know...



"Dear esteemed member of the traditional press,

We have been made aware that technology X is too advanced, too trendy, too 
utopianly spastic and certainly too culturally transformative for you to 
possibly understand, much less explain to your readers.

Could you please say some nice things about it, giving credit and 
accolades to the people who are actually thinking deep thoughts about it?

You could then proceed to say something open-ended and witty that promotes 
the status of our favorite newfangled Internet technology (hopefully in 3D 
or hypertextual or VRML-inspired... or with 31337 nanotechnology and cool 
virtual hair products available inside!!!) over your Gutenberg-derived 
dead-tree-press manifestoes?

We would be highly appreciative, and might even buy a subscription to 
NYT/WaPo/FoxNews online service as a token of our unending gratitude and 
symbolic capitulation to your economic grandstanding."


[This is all in fun, of course....

AND I managed to squeeze in a few Big Words....!!!]


yukyuk,

--elijah