[TAG] Editor retirement

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:06:49AM -0700, Breen Mullins wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 21:15, Mike Orr wrote:
> > [For the Mailbag.]
> > 
> > This is my last issue editing Linux Gazette.  Ben Okopnik has agreed to take
> > over producing LG starting in May.  So you're all gonna DIE!!!  DOOM IS AT
> > HAND!!!  
> 
> I'm ready to run!
 
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From: TruthMonger <tm at dev.null>
To: TAG <tag at lists.linuxgazette.net>
To: president at whitehouse.gov
Cc: cypherpunks at toad.com
Subject: I'm going to count to ten...

BadBillyC,
  I thought you'd finally come to your senses.
  The headline read, "Clinton Urges Feinstein To Run." Delighted, I
scanned the page for the picture of you pumping a round into the
riot gun, with a caption quoting you as saying, "I'm going to count
to ten..." Sadly, upon reading the accompanying news blurb, it became
apparent that the women in your life give you just as much trouble
when you're keeping Little Peter out of the relationship, as they do
when you let him bend you to his will.

...
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Look this rant up elsewhere on the Net. It's hilarious in a
chewing-the-scenery, heavy-duty-restraints-required way.

> Pho. Yum. 
 
Indeed - although I'm not a fan of the powdered dried pork the
Vietnamese pho places sometimes use for a topping. Otherwise, "yum"
indeed! 

[sigh] One of the few things I dislike about living here is that
anything other than burgers and fried chicken (well, and fried gator
tail) is "that weird food". We do have two Japanese restaurants in town;
they get away with it by being "upscale" - with the corresponding price
leap. "If you ain't up for Billy Joe Bob's BBQ Hut, you ain't from 'round
heah!"

> The Mercury-News had an article in yesterday's food section about
> something I'd never heard of -- bahn xeo.
> 
> "Banh xeo (bun see-oh) is not only one of my favorite Vietnamese dishes,
> but one of my most beloved foods -- period. The lacy crepe is stuffed
> with shrimp, pork, mushrooms, creamy mung beans and crunchy bean
> sprouts. Tear off a piece of the hot-off-the-pan, golden-orange rice
> crepe. Swaddle it in a cool lettuce leaf with sprigs of fresh mint and
> basil. Then dunk it all into a spritely blend of lime juice, garlic,
> chiles and Vietnamese fish sauce. It is snap, crackle and wow."
> 
> http://snipurl.com/62hw
> 
> I think I'll have to try that this weekend.

Mmmm. I'll have to try it next time I get the chance. I love Vietnamese
food anyway; in Torrance, CA where I used to live, there was a Viet
supermarket where I used to go for lunch - they had all sorts of aspics
and jellies in the cold case that were simply _awesome_ tasting as well
as beautiful to look at, at about $2 a piece (1 - 2 of them made a good
meal.) Humongous tiger shrimp at $8/lb... oh, man. I'm going to have to
move back to the West Coast at some point. :)

> Good luck, Mike. Keep in touch.

Oh. Yeah. [laugh] I'd become so used to Mike being here that I didn't
even think about that. Mike, I sure do hope you'll stick around!

> And, of course, good luck to Ben too. I've got a feeling that
> interesting times are ahead for LG.

Not in the Chinese sense, I hope!


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