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Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven)

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Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #1 from rnymdn

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:51:29 -0500

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Posted August 13, 2007 2:51 PM by rnymdn

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #2 from Mark D

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:00:41 -0500

ironymaiden: I don't think you really did have to say that. Not even a little.

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Posted August 13, 2007 3:00 PM by Mark D

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #3 from Caroline

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:14:07 -0500

ironymaiden: Making Light posts are often long. That's why I use a feed that gives me only the first line or two, and then click over to read the rest.

That was a pretty hurtful thing to say. Many of the people here knew him personally.

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Posted August 13, 2007 3:14 PM by Caroline

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #4 from Kathryn from Sunnyvale

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:51:29 -0500

All-
Ironmaiden's comment at #1 is a troll. I'd ignore it and give no thought as to why a person'd say something like it*.

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* Trolls are a stunted boggart, countered with a 'Ignorthemallus.'

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Posted August 13, 2007 3:51 PM by Kathryn from Sunnyvale

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #5 from Serge

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:00:53 -0500

Kathryn @ 4... Not a troll, but a (censored) jerk. Jerks should not be fed anything any more than trolls should. Of course, my saying that constitutes food for jerks. It is a great paradox that I shall ponder at the expense of every other productive task.

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Posted August 13, 2007 4:00 PM by Serge

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #6 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:35:10 -0500

In future, rnymdn, please bear in mind that Patrick, Jim, Avram, and I can see your IP address.

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Posted August 13, 2007 4:35 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #7 from dan

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:29:57 -0500

Thanks as always, Jim.

De vermis being a personal favorite...

(Sweet, Teresa!)

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Posted August 13, 2007 5:29 PM by dan

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #8 from Julie L.

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:29:49 -0500

"De Vermis" reminds me: does anyone know where any revenue from Mike's CafePress store (still in operation) now goes? Reading that poem again makes me want to buy something that it's on.

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Posted August 13, 2007 6:29 PM by Julie L.

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #9 from Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:24:46 -0500

Mike writes on the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago:

This meant that every bored kid in the area (Hyde Park, while it had the University of Chicago, was also seriously economic depressed, at least in my pre-1974 era) would go there, or be dumped by their parents, and run around the halls mashing buttons (an early incidence of that supposedly modern phrase) or, in a few cases, deliberately trying to break things. You know the drill. Things got fixed, but it was impossible to keep even. There’s now an admission charge, and as I noted above, a new set of directors that’s trying to be less commercial and more creative.

A prominent local fan, Doug Drummond, has worked at MSI for some years maintaining the gigantic model railroad layout there.

I keep telling him, "You have the coolest job in Chicago!"

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Posted August 13, 2007 8:24 PM by Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #10 from Caroline

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:03:19 -0500

Kathryn @ 4 -- I was taking abi's concerns to heart. From tone and content, it sounded like someone who just didn't quite get that we are remembering someone real, not just words on the Internet.

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Posted August 13, 2007 10:03 PM by Caroline

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #11 from Paul A.

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:08:26 -0500

Long ago on Usenet, I started using the term “cuckoo” for folks who (often, though not always, under pseuds) showed up out of nowhere to post rants, and then disappeared into the Void-O-Tron.

Ooh, I like that.

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Posted August 14, 2007 1:08 AM by Paul A.

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #12 from Nix

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:21:46 -0500

I only just noticed that De Vermis was a response to Patrick's request in the post above, as well as being, well, amazing.

(read it again. teared up again. dammit.)

--- Besides, even for those of us who never met him (so for us he *was* just words on the Internet), they were such good words, and now there will be no more. I know I've mourned people I've only met on Usenet. Probably most people here have.

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Posted August 14, 2007 4:21 AM by Nix

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #13 from Caroline

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:46:13 -0500

Nix -- I never met him either; he was words on the Internet to me too. It's still hard to believe that he's gone.

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Posted August 14, 2007 1:46 PM by Caroline

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #14 from Janet Brennan Croft

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:04:54 -0500

Yes, every time I think it's time for another poetry challege or something, I just kind of lose heart and don't suggest it because, dammit, there wouldn't be any Mike Ford entries to astonish and demoralize me beyond all hope of competing.

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Posted August 14, 2007 4:04 PM by Janet Brennan Croft

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #15 from elise

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:50:10 -0500

—The Django Fett Concert Hall and Automatic Weapons Range

Mike was much given to mentioning Django Fett, the famed three-fingered Gypsy bounty hunter.

Bill @ 9: That really is the coolest job in Chicago.

Memo to self: hunt up copy of Rhythm of Life and watch it again.

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Posted August 16, 2007 9:50 AM by elise

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #16 from Kevin Marks

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:47:01 -0500

From my personal collection of pot-melted jackboots, this crept across my feedreader today:

You can't see what needs to happen
Take a step back. Are you spending your time on things that will make (the right) impact? What is required down the road? Don't drive while
contemplating the inside of the car.

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Posted August 17, 2007 1:47 AM by Kevin Marks

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #17 from Serge sees SPAM

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:52:04 -0500

Go away.

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Posted November 7, 2010 9:52 AM by Serge sees SPAM

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #18 from Serge sees SPAM

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:33:49 -0500

None of your business.

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Posted November 9, 2010 7:33 AM by Serge sees SPAM

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #19 from Serge sees SPAM

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:17:26 -0500

shoo!

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Posted November 19, 2010 12:17 AM by Serge sees SPAM

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #20 from Stefan Jones sees spam

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:18:01 -0500

Ineptly created, with no link.

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Posted November 19, 2010 12:18 AM by Stefan Jones sees spam

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #21 from Lila sees spam

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:39:23 -0500

Does the cold weather bring out more spambots?

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Posted January 6, 2014 9:39 PM by Lila sees spam

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #22 from P J Evans agrees it's spam

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:02:40 -0500

and a lot of it, too. Mike would have had fun with them, I suspect.

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Posted January 6, 2014 10:02 PM by P J Evans agrees it's spam

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #23 from Stefan Jones

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 23:52:22 -0500

There are a variety of objects and phenomena in the world, and the concepts presented here are a unique explication of a subset of them. Who is to say?

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Posted January 6, 2014 11:52 PM by Stefan Jones

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #24 from P J Evans

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:11:09 -0500

All three spambots are from the same URL. How boring.

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Posted January 7, 2014 12:11 AM by P J Evans

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #25 from Cadbury Moose

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:37:30 -0500

True, but all the easier for the gnomes to eradicate.

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Posted January 7, 2014 6:37 AM by Cadbury Moose

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #26 from eric

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:00:46 -0500

Just rolling 'The discamelating straw' over again and again.

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Posted January 7, 2014 4:00 PM by eric

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #27 from Mary Aileen

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:52:43 -0500

eric (26): Isn't that a great turn of phrase?

I miss Mike.

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Posted January 7, 2014 4:52 PM by Mary Aileen

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #28 from elise

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:00:49 -0500

:raises a glass to our Mike:

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Posted January 8, 2014 1:00 PM by elise

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #29 from Lizzy L

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:54:40 -0500

*looking for her glass -- ah, there it is*

Joining you.

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Posted January 8, 2014 2:54 PM by Lizzy L

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #30 from Clifton

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:11:10 -0500

May his memory long be a blessing! Joining you.

(With a toast in coffee, since I have nothing stronger here at work.)

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Posted January 8, 2014 4:11 PM by Clifton

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #31 from Cadbury Moose

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:33:02 -0500

To Mike!

(Hoists cup of tea because, well, because...)

#30 Doesn't toast go all soggy in coffee?

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Posted January 8, 2014 5:33 PM by Cadbury Moose

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #32 from Tom Whitmore

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:25:25 -0500

Hear, here!

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Posted January 8, 2014 9:25 PM by Tom Whitmore

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Eleven) -- comment #33 from Xopher Halftongue

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:18:18 -0500

Hear, their, and every ware!

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Posted January 9, 2014 12:18 AM by Xopher Halftongue