Wednesday, 3/06/02 NOTICE: Web pages are "infinitely updateable." Save what you have to a disk, go get Netscape Composer, and fix it up, being sure to save all changes inside the web folder on your floppy disk. Bring the disk, along with your original grade sheet, and I'll reevaluate it.
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation? ("Why Cartoons Are Forever" by Ray Bradbury, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 3, 1989.)
Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. (10/10 = exempt, 9/10 = +3, 8/10 = +2, 7/10 = +1)
graft, resilient, (resilience), aurora, expendable, poised, subtle, infinitesimal, correlate
  1. The machine glowed. It had a(n) __________ that flickered brightly; orange, blue, and silver.
  2. He is not an _________ member of the team; we need his help desperately.
  3. The gardener _________(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.
  4. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) _______ amount.
  5. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered _________.
  6. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to ___________ to survive.
  7. She tried to make _________ hints about her friend's bad breath.
  8. A trampoline is, by definition, ___________.
  9. He tried to be be very ___________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.
  10. We tried to ___________ our arrival times so that we could be there together.
RAY BRADBURY ON COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?  (Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.)

Who do you want to talk to? All those morons who are living across the world somewhere? You don't even want to talk to them at home. (On the topic of Internet chat rooms)

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full time -- And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel.  (Salon.com, August 29, 2001)
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"ASOT" What's the real message here?
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