"citycabn" (was Re: Jejune Jesuits)


Subject: "citycabn" (was Re: Jejune Jesuits)
From: Robbie (vasudeva@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 04:09:24 GMT


Bruce said:
<< The house I rent in the ridiculously over-priced city of San
Francisco has
an add-on room in the garage. The entire room is pine-paneled,
including
the ceiling (floor of oak). My wife and I always refer to it as The
Cabin.
When we bought our first computer, we hooked it up down there (I mean
_here_). Our ISP limits the user name to a maximum of 8 letters. My
wife
came up with "citycabn". (I now think "ctycabin" would have been much
clearer; "citycabn" sort of sounds like we're running a taxi service.)
>>

"citycabn" is clear enough that every time I see it in the header of one
of your messages my mind fills with a vivid and preposterous image of a
rather manly man named Bruce wearing flannel and a grisly beard in a
log-walled room with rustic fixtures, sending messages to the list on a
small computer which doesn't plug into a wall (because a socket would
clash harshly) and which looks suspiciously like an old mechanical
typewriter. And all of this in a log cabin with a view of the San
Francisco Bay, and with a backdrop of the beautiful cityscape punctuated
by Coit Tower and the Transamerica building.

And living about 30 miles away (just on the other side of the tunnel --
Concord) and having spent great deals of time in the city on a great
many occasions, that image strikes me as being all the more absurd and
it makes me laugh out loud rather frequently.

-robbie

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