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By Pete Miner
Don't you just hate it, when all that's on TV are summer reruns? You've already seen them once, and now they want you to suffer through them again. What's a person to do?
Well, if you've come to Miner Thoughts for something fresh and new, you've just added to the number of blunders you've already made today because all you're going to find here is, you guessed it, a summer rerun!
The following little ditty appeared in the April, 1996 issue of My Mac.
The reason I'm submitting an old, used piece is not what you may think. I'm not on vacation, soaking up the sun on some swanky beach. In fact, I haven't taken a vacation in 10 or 12 years.
This isn't a piece that I think is great and deserves to be read a second time. In fact, as poetry goes, it really stinks. I didn't get lazy or forget to write something for this issue. In fact, I always have 2 or 3 columns in the works at any given time.
It's because of one of those columns (one that I have been working on for the past six weeks), that my submission deadline came and went, and although I had 3 columns in various stages of completion, I didn't feel I could put endings on any of them in the time I had left, which was none.
I got carried away with the column I've been feverishly working on for this issue. So far it consists of more than 5,000 words and I've begun to separate it into chapters. I gave some thought to submitting this mastodon of a story in sections but didn't feel the separate chapters were strong enough to stand on their own, so I'll wait until I finish the whole thing before I throw it at you, hopefully by the September issue.
I will, however, tell you the story is about a man named Buford who wants to make a career change, from a disgruntled and bored truck driver, to..., well, he's not really sure to what. But he explores several options, one of which takes place inside the mansion of the chief character of my poem below.
Secret Thoughts of Bill Gates (The rerun)
Dinosaurs all dead and destroyed All await the new version of Pentium And software from me and my boys +
But my plan differs entirely +
Late at night in my mansion +
I know the Macintosh System +
Windows will always sell more +
It should be obvious to everyone +
Moving ahead to the future +
Microsoft has the marketing +
I took over Apple Computer +
I bought out IBM +
I'll use the Apple computer +
I'll tell the world's computing masses +
I'll say to them of all the rest +
The only software from now on +
Now all the world's computers
Pete Miner (pete@mymac.com)
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