From: Alienthe@hotmail.com   
      
   Sourcerer wrote:   
      
   > In article <3FC5286A.301@hotmail.com>, Alienthe     
   wrote:   
   >>Sourcerer wrote:   
   >>>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Alienthe wrote:   
      
      
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   >   
   >>From what I can remember, Eanna means something about being   
   >>dedicated to Ea/Enki right? That doesn't look too dystopic   
   >>either... Is your archive coming on-line soon? Seems several   
   >>regulars around here are about to get their big irons on-line   
   >>and so do I, broadband finally arrived around here.   
   >   
   > I will probably not put it online, however, several have   
   > requested it, and if I can find a spot to leave an 18Mb   
   > tarball, they can d'load it.   
      
      
   I saw it is up now, I'll download it soon. It is fun to   
   read through old postings and articles and see how things   
   change.   
      
   > I believe the E in Eanna means 'house', i.e., the house of   
   > 'Anna, or Inanna. The Eanna is the goddess's house in Uruk.   
   > Ea's or Enki's house, the Abzu, is in Eridu.   
   >   
   > I believe the US army believes it is in possession of them   
   > these days.   
      
      
   If the area once becomes safe to visit, I would like to   
   see some of these ancient sites. Much appears to have   
   been stolen but the bigheadlines disappeared when some   
   treasures were recovered from journalists on their way   
   out of the country.   
      
   > We almost had a discussion about Jaynes awhile back. Have you   
   > read him?   
      
      
   Unfortunately not. The last 18 months have been spent at   
   work or travelling and I have had problems getting on the   
   net. jaynes still is high on the list and I have gotten a   
   few leads on who to ask in the field on neurophysiology   
   some of the questions I mentioned here quite some time   
   ago. Just a cursory scan shows research on neuroelectric   
   interfaces and also corpus callosum are still going on.   
      
   >    
   >   
   >>"High desert"? That explains that bit about enjoying "desperate   
   >>situations". You are lucky if you have reliable weather, anyway,   
   >>thanks to sparse population here I can still enjoy starry skies.   
   >>I must admit when sitting outdoors on a quiet, dark, starry night   
   >>enjoying a cup of Japanese green tea (for that extra cyberpoint)   
   >>life does not feel that dystopic.   
   >   
   > We can see Arches and Canyonland national parks from our yard.   
   > The weather is cold and bright. The evening star appears like   
   > a laser in the cobalt blue sky...which is inspiring as hell,   
   > except that the gas furnace died two weeks ago and our heat's   
   > been a woodburning stove (and now christmas tree lights).   
      
      
   There have been many nice, bright constellations last year   
   and I guess Venus overlapping Mars had the astrologers bursting   
   of excitement... I met some that felt the moon lost some   
   of its romatic shine after people had "trampled all over it"   
   and now I hear Mars is next.   
      
   [snip]   
      
      
   >>Well, deserts tend not to be that inflammable and with the   
   >>predicted near permanent rainfall nothing much will ever   
   >>catch fire. I have seen the occational overlap of interest   
   >>between cyberpunk and survivalism, personally I am only   
   >>considering getting a generator and an UPS.   
   >   
   > I didn't mean to give the impression that Poly and I are   
   > "survivalists". We're just careful 8-) I've lived thru a   
   > period of urban decline and the present situation stirs my   
   > recollection. The suburbs will deteriorate, too, this time.   
      
      
   On the other hand you could get Stephensonian burbclaves   
   and compunds, not that I think of that as progress.   
      
   > Whether or not the next few years are to be experienced as   
   > 'dystopic' or not depends a lot on how well one deals with   
   > disorienting change. We think lots of Americans are not   
   > prepared to deal with that, so we have distanced ourselves   
   > from the mainstream. Although we're living back in 'nature'   
   > we haven't gone "back to nature" or "up the country" or   
   > become Luddite. Our circumstances are very technical and   
   > fwd looking.   
      
      
   I see indications of trouble ahead for Europe too, such as   
   serious corruption in the EU administration, depleting oil   
   reserves in the North Sea and impending pension fund   
   implosion when the 1945-generation retires. Few even want   
   to discuss these things.   
      
   > The future to look fwd to is in the wastelands...   
      
      
   Japan is once again moving forward and China is gearing   
   up for serious financial expansions. It might rather be   
   that the Far East is the place to look forward to.   
      
   ==<)   
      
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