From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 12:08:06 MDT
Damien Broderick writes
>> Will this man's shameless self-promotion of "The Spike" never cease?
>>
>> Now even the keystrokes of archaic software are being enrolled in
>> the campaign.
>
> Ah, but of course I wasn't talking for an instant about the book, but about
Yeah, right. Professor Broderick, or his minions, evidently combed every
conceivable reference to "The Spike" in Google and all the other search
engines to come up with the F3 key stroke "to the singularity" that just
*by coincidence* happens to match the title of the Professor's latest book
(Translator's note: to those of you born before 1975, "minions" means the
same thing, in this context as "droogies", or more specifically sniveling
sycophants.)
Lee Corbin
> the idea and prospect the term denotes. I was dazzled at the thought that
> Microsoft should have so thoughtfully provided a keystroke shortcut direct
> to the singularity. Has anyone dared use it, though? Presumably not, I
> suppose, unless we are the Pedestrians (Eliezer's nice word) who declined
> to be Transcended--as would be fitting among those still using Word 97.
>
> Damien Broderick
> [Word 97 is still in the misty, bloated future to us WP5.1 devotees]
>
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