Everhart, Glenn From: OPCOM [vaxhackery@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 9:54 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Cryptic prophecies of OPCOM %%%%%%%%%%%OPCOM 22-FEB-1999 Reperire veritas post unus Martius, perubique VMS omnipotens, liber quod publicus DECUS uti illudere. The hammerblows of reality implode the barriers of disconnectivity around the Righteous 32 ounce single-layer cakes, and reveal the availability of more layers and larger 64 ounce Righteous cakes. The illumination of truth boils away the ocean of disconnectivity surrounding Islands of Automation. Scales fall from eyes as larger islands are seen. The islands grow bridgelike structures, and connect, large and small. Things stop and start again. Sets of Holy Writings are placed upon and beside Sets of Holy writings. Intelligent Machinery announces itself, and joins its brethren, now acting as one of great power. The deceptive but new brilliance of a freely distributed but most foul and heathen public solarium, which has for some time been a scourge most heinous upon the lost, is eclipsed by the most Holy and Righteous 64 ounce cake which is Freely had (but eaten only with the right permissions) and which hath as many Layers as the individual Manager shall desire, And even too shall the Managers with only the smaller 32 ounce mixing bowls make their cakes of many Layers, and of Products both crufty and divine! Artists shall select their own MOTIF, and paint many rectangles upon "The one and only" glass. And in many places, the cakes shall be put together, so that it may be said, "that is a very large cake, and it is also a set of individual cakes of various sizes." And it will be the Right Thing to say. Prepare ye oh DECheads and fans of robusty buxom beautiful boxes! The time is close at hand, when mere Islands of Automation shall join to become Clusters of Communal Connectivity! Hear now the here now! The Sun devil hides from the traps of the mouths of stone lawyers, the great pagan idol-heads of the Bill the Evil One, as they loll and bob above the teemed masses! But we, the ever faithful, need not ACK the Sun god nor the Dragon! A transfer of information known by the true devotee, such transfer costing only the already paid for price of the use of existing infrastructure, reveals a set of exquisite keys, unliken to those for any lock of the worldly realm. Beautiful keys made by mathemagical formulae and cast in electron states, a likeness of which the devotee may record upon papayrus, for sayfe keeping (and to impress lesser magi and sun worshippers). Vernon and Albert shall appear in a vision to young people, and shall appear not unlike a wonderful waking dream to the elders, each saint appearing on one side of a set of otherwise respectively mirrored and holey discs, the mirror not for the base vanity practiced of the heathenry, but holding the writing of the sacred Mysteries, which can, it is said, be read only by the Virtual. And it will be the Right Thing. And so I have Spoken. (and typed on a DEC keyboard which still has a blue |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| expense tag on it! PLBPLBPLBPLB!!)