Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: We can get in on the act too! Message-ID: <10171@gatech.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 23:42:42 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.10171 Posted: Tue Sep 11 23:42:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 03:39:30 EDT Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 165 1. What: A gathering for social entertainment or the entertain- ment itself, often of a specific nature. Viz., a party. 2. Why: To Celebrate. Celebrate the end of summer. Celebrate Tom (C.T. the Counter-terrestrial) Wilkes' and Gene (the Vegan Mutant) Spafford's new address. Celebrating Dave and Amy getting hitched. Celebrating Spaf and Eric passing their qualifiers and getting their thesis topics approved. Celebrating that C.T. and Dave (Captain Cognition) Pitts will soon do likewise. Celebrating an almost one-year anniversary of Dave (Captain Togo) Phelps surviving his close encounter with a van of the EES kind while practicing for the Olympic speed-bump trials. In short, we're celebrating a lot. As if we really need an excuse. However, to make sure we don't miss any (excuse), we'll have a sheet at the door for people to list things worth celebrating. Hopefully, we'll be able to cele- brate the presence of lots of our friends at our party. 3. Who(m): C.T. and Spaf are basically responsible for the party, with some probable assistance from such luminaries as Kathy (Bee Bait) Heaphy, Dave (Speed Bump) Phelps, Waldo the Wonder Duck, and a cast of tens. This might be considered to be an official Friends of Entropy event, but the Friends never plan things in advance. As to the guests, if you're reading this, you're invited! (Telepathically reading this through someone else is also okay. But you knew that already.) Please, no chain-saw murderers. No exploding Scotsmen or exploding penguins. Wombats welcome. 4. When: The evening of Saturday, September 29th. After 7 pm. Until whenever. 5. Where: At the new abode of C.T. and Spaf: 990 Tennyson Drive NW, Atlanta GA, USA, Terra/Sol, beyond reality and through the woods. Directions below somewhere. 6. Bring: Yourself. A friend. Someone you'd like to have as a friend (hint: point us out and note how you're much saner than we are). A spousal unit (yours or someone else's). Hamsters. We'll supply a limited supply of munchies. Also some beer, ice, iced tea, some soft drinks, chilled water, and crunchy rocks. If you have special preferences or anything in particular you'd like to inflict on the group, please feel free to bring it (unless the transport, display, or use of such items would incur the ire of judicial and police officials). As per usual, gifts of gold, precious gems, and nubile sheep are always appreciated. Also, piranha or sea serpents to help stock the moat, and livestock to feed same. Rare wines, exotic cheeses, and large pieces of chocolate are also encouraged. 7. Restrictions: Smoking inside is not permitted. Offenders will be violated. Anyone drinking large amounts of alcohol may be asked to surrender their keys until they evidence restored coordination. If you want to get falling down (or leaning over) drunk, please do it at home. Park in the street. Please DO NOT block any driveways or other cars. 8. Amusements: Well, there should be lots of good company. Besides the usual computer nerds and Techies, we'll be inviting guests from lots of other places. We'll also have a few games scattered about, some odd video tapes (to please everyone, we'd have to have titles like "Gidget does God- zilla"; we'll have to make do with "Plan 9"), and later in the evening we may teach people to play "Bite the Bag." Other suggestions welcomed. 9. Directions: From downtown Atlanta, go north on I-75 to the Howell Mill Road exit (#105). Go north on Howell Mill Road (a right turn from northbound exit). The first light at a street is Collier Road. Go straight through and continue to follow Howell Mill Road as it curves left. The 5th road on the left after Collier is Northcliffe -- turn left on North- cliffe. Take your next left turn and immediate right onto Tennyson. From Cobb County environs, come south on I-75 to the Moore's Mill Road exit (#106). Turn left (eastbound) on Moore's Mill. Turn right at the first light (Northside Drive). After the next light, and just after the bend in the road beyond, take Northcliffe to your right. 10. RSVP Please let us know if you're coming, and about how many of you there are. Try any of the following: phone (404) 355-8353 evenings phone (404) 894-6169 weekdays uucp mail to ...gatech!spaf -or- ...gatech!wilkes CSnet mail to spaf@gatech -or- wilkes@gatech telepathy 11. Special considerations for out-of-town guests: We have multiple instances of fold-out couches. We also have lots of room for sleeping bags. Amphibious visi- tors may appreciate the stream and cushy mud bank in the front yard. More conventional accomodations may be arranged if we are given enough warning. Room is available in Spaf's waterbed for female guests, housepets, and attractive plants -- however, you have to get by Kathy (Spaf's Squeeze) first. C.T. doesn't have an Irish chaperone, but neither does he have a large bed. He does have room to hang in his closet, however, if you are so inclined (inverted). Atlanta has excellent air connections for you soar- heads. Most airlines visit here on their way to other, more dreary places. For those of you who have a fear of flying, Atlanta is also served by Amtrak and the various bus ser- vices. Let us know your schedule and we'll try to arrange ground transportation. Drivers and hitchhikers can arrive via I-75 (from Ohio and points NW), I-85 (from NJ, New England, points NE), and I-20 (Alabama, Texas, and points West). Further details available on request. Travelers from other planets and dimensions probably already know the way. Just home in on the beacon, as usual. However, please let us know if you have any special landing requirements, or if your craft emits any radiation or sub- stance requiring the filing of an environmental impact statement. Please let us know if you're traveling any major dis- tance to come to the party -- we'll arrange amusements for Friday night and Saturday. Sunday morning, of course, will be devoted to burying the dead, and looting and pillaging the comatose. -- Off the Wall of Gene Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Phone: (404) 894-6169, (404) 894-6170 [messages] CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!spaf ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!spaf