SNN UPDATE #29

Friday, 1 November 1996

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And a merry All Saints Day to you too, Pumpkin Pete.  Hey!  
don't eat that 'till you've checked it, there may be razor  
blades in- what?  on the AIR?  Why you... Welcome once      
again to SNN UDPATE, where as you can tell Special Corres-  
pondent Pete has once again tricked the likeable and liked  
publishing maven Mike into flubbing up on-air again.  But   
worry not, I get my revenge when he wakes up.  Hey, Pete!   
how's that taffy apple? heh heh heh...                      
                                                            
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* The STF Web Colony has sprung into action, with upwards   
 of half a dozen dedicated *P trekkers mingling with...     
 well, half a dozen dedicated *P trekkers.  The only thing  
 that seperates the Web Colony from STF*P is Grace "Sun-    
 shine" Larsen and the occasional .gif from Nick or Greg.   
 Perhaps we should try advertising somewhere?               
* Also on the web, Nick Oven's STF Yearbook (or should it   
 be called picturebook, because it represents no real       
 year?) has expanded with two new pictures, including       
 Rebecca "Hopefully this will be at least a LITTLE better"  
 Juarez and Greg "You GDMF misspelled it again, Mike"       
 Hertzch.  Already-inducted-ees:  Nick "Incompetant Idiot"  
 Oven, Phil "Promotion by default" Bishop, Randy "I had to  
 get my name in this UPDATE somehow" McCullick, and others. 
* And as some of you may or may not know, our southern      
 neighbor STNG is holding a fun little Halloween Party,     
 despite the fact that they're already a day behind.  Word  
 is that the entertainment has just shown up (Proton Pete & 
 the Valence Electrons) and the STF and STNG rank and file  
 have already begun ranking and filing in.  All STFers and  
 STNGers are invited;  come dressed in a costume.  The      
 place to be?  "STNG: SB-EMILY'S PUB."                      
* Well!  We've finished about all of our news for the day,  
 and we've still got two more pages left.  The solution?    
 Well, here's an oldie I found on the net-                  
 Admiral Grace "Sunnie" Larsen, former FC of F2 and CO of   
 the Connie, has a homepage on the web (and has had it for  
 some time).  IF you check this page out, however (http://  
 www.aros.net/~sunshine/), you may notice a link marked     
 "Data" or "Data page" or something to that effect.  Yes,   
 it's about DATA, everyone's favorite fully functional      
 android... but better than that, it's related to STF!      
 Admrial Larsen has compiled some of Admiral Larsen's       
 (different Larsen, this is Julie Larsen) old "Data Lovers" 
 columns from back... well, from before even I joined STF!  
 To give you some perspective on how long ago that was,     
 Fleet Two had seven ships at the time, the Connie was the  
 NCC-1017-E, (it's now the "H") and SNN UPDATE was negative 
 two years old.  Ken "Velso" Marklan -- Velos Larech --     
 joined STF after I did;  So did Mike "Barcbutt" Barclay,   
 who was once his CO.  "Data Lovers" was dead by the time I 
 joined as Lt. Cmdr., CE on the Connie -- Christmas 1992.   
                                                            
                                                            
       Celebrate the emptiness of the Extra Space.          
                                                            
                                                            
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celebrates the dawn of its third year in publication under  
the skillfull leadership of Mike "Yes, our third year!"     
Ballway, still guided by the Journalistic Motto of "Quick,  
Informative, Totally Biased Reporting of STF Events."       
While it's true that Mike, even after two years at this,    
still has working brain cells, the opinions of these brain  
cells do not necessarily represent the opinions of STF.  If 
you have a complaint, commendation, comment, communique,    
calculation, criticism, charge, command, compliment, chat,  
contact, or coronary artery, feel free to email the Editor- 
Commodore Mike "bwsc65c" Ballway, Circulation Coordinator