Miscellaneous - Prulevka - strange people.

<b>Miscellaneous</b> - Prulevka - strange people.

Strange people (C) 1997 E. Nesterenko (Jam 
)________________________________ ... In the city center, 
zatisnu-melting between two noisy and solidnyhulits modestly 
situated ma-Lenka quiet streets, nazvannayav honor of the 
immortal creator of "Dead Souls", a monument in the nearby 
kotoromunahoditsya Square-kyo. Along the streets stretch light 
schiesya signs latter-day firms, diversifying arhitekturustaryh 
unusually tired moschenoybulyzhnikom houses and roads. And it 
seems sovsemstrannym prisutstviezdes same Catholic Church-the 
church. But this fact without-govorochno evidence of the 
sanctity of these places. Most citizens on the question of the 
location above the street just shrug their shoulders in 
bewilderment, some still know, so just will point you to the 
best way to find it, but there is a special category of people, 
they can not even know the names of most streets,

despite the fact that every Tuesday there are. What is this
people?

   At first glance - nothing
special. Among them are those who
still in school or university and
those who are over forty. They
different characters, different opinions,
Many of them do not know each other and yet all share one thing
- SECRET COMPUTER WORLD.
This does not mean that they do business. They do
here do not sell and do not buy anything - in this place it was
would be "sacrilege." Any material benefit they are not
receive. The question arises: why should they persistently 
arrive here from all over the City? Strange people ... But one 
who so believes they never will understand

As someone who has never sat behind the keyboard at night or
with a soldering iron in his hand. Yes, these people are really 
strange. About They can say that they are fanatics, they are 
great kids that they are just bums, finally.

And it would be somewhat true, but the secret of their souls
lies in a different space -
dimensions of imagination and curiosity. They are real
the world is too imperfect, and therefore create their own, let 
a virtual ghost, but this wonderful!


   In this world you can forget
all laws of physics and fly to
other planets, we can communicate
with cosmic civilizations and
create your own, travel
in time and space, to communicate with friends via 
tysyachekilometrovye distance ... Most interesting that the 
possibility of the computer world is not quite

limited, and is constantly expanding parallel to the expansion 
of the human imagination. Looking into the world once it is 
impossible forget about him, he is like a drug. But if this drug

is the most harmless and wonderful of all the most useful
and kind. From him no one dies and is not sick, he was not
makes unhappy and not forced to commit crimes. On the contrary, 
to the best way to shoot Germans in a computer maze,

than among the burning houses with AKM th
blazing with brass knuckles or a
a dark alley ... The computer will take you all the evil things 
that are Unfortunately, the inherent human

soul, and instead broaden your horizons, recharge erudition, 
will receive the necessary information or a fun rest ...


  You probably think that now goes to the advertising style
"Computer - another person and
ORDER OF SUCH OTHER POSSIBLE FOR
So much money on such and such a
Address ... "But if you think that, then so do not understand 
anything, despite all my efforts. I

also warned that there is nothing
sold or purchased, and
so you finally in this
sure, we should come together on Tuesday at the very small 
street and a dip in its special atmosphere ...


   A warm autumn evening. White with
blue sign "INEC" next showcase a small "kiosk" directly in
window of a house. Near the house, on the
cobblestone road - a crowd of people up to fifty people.
Someone comes, someone goes out.
Periodically, people coming to
"Kiosk" zatarivatsya who does what,
but mostly beer. Near the tree is worth a bag of empty bottles, 
and the crowd now and then flashed some kind of surly

personality, keenly looking for prey. Seeing in the hands of 
the victim empty or nearly devastated by the bottle, sullen 
personality grows in front of her, as if

from beneath the earth: "Excuse me, do not leave the bottle?" 
And the victim almost doomed. The most persistent

(Or the most greedy?) Can
yet to pass an empty bottle in the
"Kiosk". Sullen personality accompanies such a long dull eyes, 
and continues to "hunt". Some wag aptly dubbed this most 
personality "BOTTLE HUNTER'om.


   The people mainly divided
in small groups, people from
two to ten, these groups are not constant because of the smooth
overflow of people from one group to another. The reason is 
simple: one - fans of "Spectrum" Other - IBM'a ", the third -" 
Amigo. " There is also a "apparatchiks" and programmers, and 
just the players. It is noteworthy that there is no animosity 
between them, nor contempt, then Everyone understands that 
among the "computer people" all classes and castes are 
meaningless, because regardless of the type of computer and 
religion are as people and Party, one. Let's hear what

as they say here ...
 - Just think, the ninth
access levels!
 - Why, it really nine? Here
is torsion-y-UTO!
 - And I'm telling you, do not go
this program on two meters, and if
even goes so do not go as well
crawl slower than a turtle ...
 - I have one friend, he did not
programmer, as is saying:
"What kind of people you are? Listened
I somehow your conversation. Listened
listen ... Frankly speaking ... From your computer bazaar, I 
saw only the pronouns, interjections and Matyuk. I no longer 
understood NOTHING!

 - And I gave him a chainsaw in the stomach,
yes at full speed! Look -
another, a chainsaw, then stretched out and her intestines were 
wrapped. Let me shake their ...

 - So?
 - Well, shake, I shook,
rushed for a second, but these
same damned guts and
slipped, then he and me
soaked!
 - What is it?
 - Do not you see zaDOOMalsya people.
 - I'll tell the computer
anecdote. Only for programmers.
 - It's funny!
 - To arrange a peasant pogrammistom in the firm. Working, 
working, and suddenly disappears somewhere. He's not a day or 
two a week. Well, worried, sent to him

home a couple of people to learn in the same
What's the matter. They come and watch -
he sits in a bathtub, a bottle in his hand
shampoo keeps. And the strange part:
take, squeeze a little shampoo to the palm, smear on his head. 
Then again - would push through, smear, squeeze and smear ... 
Nearby is a mountain of empty bottles worth it. Then took the 
bottle read: "Instructions for Use. First paragraph. Take a 
bottle Shampoo, squeeze a little on the hand, rub and rinse. 
Item second. Repeat the procedure

described in first paragraph ... "
 - What if a write
program ...
 - Yes, this is already written ...
 - Then another ...
 - Amiga, brother, is not only
valuable fur, but ... Another bottle of "Monastery" please!
So, what I stopped there?
 - What do I care about your "Pentyukhov? I'm on
forty-eight "Krasnodar" on the Internet to dig ...
 - No, you tell me, you're our
demo at the "Enlight-96" saw?
 - Well, I saw ...
 - And how cool?
 - Cool.
 - A demo of "Enlight-97" saw?
 - Well, I saw.
 - Well, how?
 - Crewe UTO.
 - And now imagine that
"Enlight-98" will be!
 - Crewe have something ...
 - I'll tell you so much right now
any lamer divorced ...
 - And do not say! Can not even
screen for interruption to throw!
So I sat down yesterday, one-two - and tossed, and in BASIC.
 - What are you? And packed?
 - Of course. And sho him to throw out there, I can even now
teach you: FOR A = 16384 ...
 - I have conceived a new project ...
 - And what about the previous?
 - And here is the previous?
I came up with his back in the year ...
 - Show me this developer Weird AY-mouse!
 - I have the honor!
 - Um ... Not bad in general
Mouse!
 - And a lot of you in letters to magazine
come from?
 - So far, not one.
 - Nothing, composed!
 - Imagine: I walked by these
Vikings through the maze for two hours.
Quite confused, I'm sitting, I think. A
a viking, and says to another:
"Just tired I am. And for a long time that
idiot behind the keyboard will have
in a circle to drive? "
 - That would flash a "ph ze-ear"
MS-DOS'om - there's your "second
breath for the Spectrum! "
 - Well, what are you doing now?
 - Yes MULTICOLOR writing. Imagine, thirty-two color
one point!
 - Wow! This has to
Spectrum was not there!
 - Um ... I generally write on IBM ...


   Could be a long time to continue these conversations, but I 
think better to see once

and most of them participate.
Therefore, wait until Tuesday - and
Forward!


   P.S. I almost forgot! It is called the next wonder of the 
world very exotic - PRULEVKA, but

do not try asking about it in
bystanders - may think that
you swear. So, see you soon!


         CONTACT:

Planet :.................. Land

Country :................. Ukraine

City :.................. Kharkiv

street :................... Gogol

point of arrival :....... PRULEVKA!


   P.P.S. By the way, for residents
other cities: if you look closely, I think, will find this 
PRULEVKU and in the city. And if it even

and no, so why not organize?
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