Not shocked.  Sad.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, August 02, 2000 8:34 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: HP World

Gavin writes:

> Denys writes:
>  > You are not now a member of Interex?!?
>
>  Nor will I name names of those who are, Senator.

Proving once again that you can only be famous only if people have heard of
you, I mentioned to my most recent QueryCalc class that in an informal poll
that I recently took, more than 70% of the QueryCalc users had never heard of
Interex, HPWorld, or even the HP3000-L. In that class just two weeks ago, it
was 100%. No one in attendance had ever heard of any of these organizations.

There are an awful lot of fairly powerful, very bright HP3000 users out there
who have never heard of Interex. Denys would be shocked.



>  > Another trick that we use is to fly to another airport that has
>  > cheaper flights.  In this case, we will probably fly into
>  > Baltimore (BWI) and drive up to Philly.
>
>  The secret here is that the East is a lot smaller than people there would
>  like you to think.  I once accidentally visited three States and the
>  District of Columbia on the drive from BWI to my Maryland hotel (it was
>  dark, ok?).

That's going to be just as possible in Philadelphia, if you too drive in the
dark. Four states will be possible in a manner of minutes (or hours,
depending on how well you get lost). See the freeway construction map at:

     http://www.phillyvisitor.com/travel.html

Wirt Atmar