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Cyberspace sickness
Posted May 31, 2001
Jumping from virtual to actual reality after a session on H2G2 has begun to engender mild disorientation, with a definite experience of blurring of boundaries between the two distinct worlds. Going about my daily routine, I've noticed my concentration in the outer world wavering more and more, having become susceptible to intrusive thoughts and emotions associated with the various activities on the web. I find myself eagerly anticipating my messages and latest postings, and it is possible that total immersion in this alternative reality is a stone's throw away. The fear is I'm losing my grip and turning into a so-called cyberspace nerd? What's the betting that this compulsive and insidious affliction will soon appear under a diagnostic category in the DSM-IV? Will it be treated by virtual doctors and practitioners in the same way as OCD? Virtual pills, now there's a thing.
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Cyberspace sickness
Posted May 31, 2001
Jumping from virtual to actual reality after a session on H2G2 has begun to engender mild disorientation, with a definite experience of blurring of boundaries between the two distinct worlds. Going about my daily routine, I've noticed my concentration in the outer world wavering more and more, having become susceptible to intrusive thoughts and emotions associated with the various activities on the web. I find myself eagerly anticipating my messages and latest postings, and it is possible that total immersion in this alternative reality is a stone's throw away. The fear is I'm losing my grip and turning into a so-called cyberspace nerd? What's the betting that this compulsive and insidious affliction will soon appear under a diagnostic category in the DSM-IV? Will it be treated by virtual practitioners in the same way as OCD?
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Have you seen my missing ball?
Posted May 31, 2001
Several years ago I was bought a pair of Chinese balls, contained in an ornamental box. You may not believe this, but whilst handling them, I had one vanish into thin air. After the initial shock, I began to look high and low for this fugitive ball, and to this day I have not been able to locate it nor phantom out what happened.
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Gobbledygook
Posted May 27, 2001
NOW PAY ATTENTION EVERYONE
This is the time for plain speaking,
a time for facing facts squarely,
without shilly-shallying,
without equivocation, or,
without beating about the bush.
Now I believe, as many of us believe,
that we will. . . all of us,
as we have before,
and can, nay must, once again . . .
make no mistake about it.
We cannot afford not to be.
For let us be quite clear about this,
in the past few months we have proved,
without any doubt . . .
that we do.
And, not to labour the point,
can, in the fullness of time,
bring forth the means to achieve this.
Thank you for listening. 
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