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"74 Engineers Review DAC'99 in New Orleans, LA, June 21-25, 1999"
by John Cooley
Holliston Poor Farm, P.O. Box 6222, Holliston, MA 01746-6222
Legal Disclaimer: "As always, anything said here is only opinion."
As I got out of the taxi in front of my hotel and the driver had handed me
my 40 lb duffel bag -- "*HOLY-MOTHER-OF-GOD!!!" -- my back VERY painfully
went out. They checked me into my hotel room with the bellhop bringing me
in on his cart. (I tipped him $15.)
I spent 10:PM to 4:AM Saturday night three blocks from Bourbon Street on
a gurney in the hallway of the Tulane Hospital Emergency Room. They
started with Codine pills. What eventually worked 4 hours later was the
intramuscular shot of Demerol. By 4:30 AM, I was back in my hotel room,
chemically numb, tired and happy. Ah... Demerol dreaming...
I was excited about DAC. And the night before I saw that new movie
"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" with my girlfriend. Glasses, bad
teeth, 'International Man Of Mystery' (POOF!) I'm 'Austin Powers'!
Missing-but-we-know-he'll-be-back, past personal rival... (POOF!) Joe
Costello becomes 'Dr. Evil'. Technically-incoherent, concentrated evil,
and 1/8th the man that Joe Costello is... (POOF!) and, of course,
Ron Collett becomes the evil little 'Mini-Me'!
It's fun to dream laughing. :^)
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
- German philosopher, Baron von Leibniz, 1646 - 1716
"If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?"
- French wit and philosopher, Voltaire, 1759
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