Disappointing MOO
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the July 1999 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
June 2 we had scheduled a very special meeting which was to be a part of a
world wide Internet Event, from 9:00 am to noon, people from all over the
world were to discuss uses of Hypertext. The person who promised to help me
lug the equipment in at the start was not able to make it, so guess who got
to do that all by himself. The same guy that sat there in the room all alone
for an hour, watching the MOO by himself. At 10:00 people started to show
up, but not for our meeting, but for a class which apparently had been scheduled
in the room after our contact in the Dean's office assured me we were booked
for the room, so I had to pack up and let them learn about Partial Differential
Equations. As I recall from when I went to school, I would have preferred
to watch an Internet Happening, but such is life. At least the first TCS
member, Dan O'Rourke, showed up just as I was leaving, so I had someone to
help me out with the equipment. I hope no one else showed up after I left,
or they would have been as disappointed as I was.
I guess this should teach me not to schedule one-time events, regardless of
how significant they seem to be.
The disappointment remindme of how frustrated I get at some normally scheduled
meetings when I get there 30 minutes before the meeting, and there is no one
to help me in with the equipment. Usually I can get someone to help me out with
it, and I appreciate that help, but I really would appreciate it if some of
you would come 30 minutes early to some of the meetings, and meet me at my
yellow Buick in the parking lot, and help me lug all the stuff in. If not,
and if turnout at the meetings continues to be as light as it sometimes is,
I may be forced to cut back on the number of programs I conduct. It is just
getting harder and harder for me to do the manual work.
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Tulsa Computer Society 7/10/99
Don Singleton, President
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