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beamjockey) wrote2022-04-26 06:58 pm
beamjockey) wrote2022-04-26 06:58 pm
Now at File 770: "Two Vain Guys Named Robert"
I wrote something called "Two Vain Guys Named Robert" which appeared today on Mike Glyer's science fiction news site, File 770.
It's about Robert Osband, the fan, hacker, and space enthusiast, and Robert Heinlein, the writer. They met once, in 1976, and you can see a picture of that moment.
I figured out that they had something else in common. Something odd. Read the article. It is in no way important. But it might be interesting.
It's about Robert Osband, the fan, hacker, and space enthusiast, and Robert Heinlein, the writer. They met once, in 1976, and you can see a picture of that moment.
I figured out that they had something else in common. Something odd. Read the article. It is in no way important. But it might be interesting.
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We used to have a person hereabouts who had the last listing in the White Pages. His name was Joybubbles and his listing was for the Zzzzzerific Fun Line. I have approximated the number of z's. My children would dial that number from time to time: he always answered and was always amusing.
Joybubbles was a phone phreak in that "whistle the dial tone" kind of way. He moved to Minneapolis on the 12th of June because our area code was then 612.
Ah, he has a Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles
K.