With A Pentium Chip, Make It 665.946728
Where else but the Internet would you find a warning that zillionaire techno-nerd Bill Gates may be the antichrist?
Harper’s magazine reprinted a computer message about the Microsoft president that read:
“Revelation 13:18 says, `Let anyone who has intelligence work out the number of the beast, for the number represents a man’s name, and the numerical value of its letters is 666.’
“Bill Gates’ full name is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays, he is known as Bill Gates (III).”
And when you convert B I L L G A T E S 3 to its ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) values, you get 66 + 73 + 76 + 76 + 71 + 65 + 84 + 69 + 83 + 3 - which just happens to equal 666.
Magician Penn Jillette, pitching the upcoming CD-ROM “Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors” at a computer convention: “It’s not that different from the spirit of our live shows, except you won’t be able to smell us.”
He mellows more with every passing year
Donovan turns 49 today.
They would aim to do it on-line, of course
When aging rocker David Crosby was recovering from his liver transplant, he passed the time in his hospital bed communicating via laptop computer with fans in cyberspace. “All of a sudden there would be all these other sparks out there in the darkness,” he told People magazine. “People saying, `Croz, pull through! Don’t die! We need this music! And if you do die, I’ll come and pee on your grave.”’
The choice was between music and journalism
For Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, it all started when his mother took him to see “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” at the tender age of 6. “It gave me my first sense that there are things in this world that are really weird,” Garcia, 52, said on an American Movie Channel special. “It was powerful and I wanted to be involved with it because it was so much fun.”
Elvis, on the other hand, took a matter of minutes
Stephen Sprouse, costume curator for the future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, explaining his craft in Spin magazine: “I’m building mannequins in generic rock poses like `the lunging guitar player’ and `the soldier solo.’ Getting the size right is difficult. Rock stars tend to be smaller than the average person.”
But you still have to watch out for photographers
Los Angeles police Capt. Margaret York, wife of O.J. Simpson trial judge Lance Ito, hopes to convince her husband to buy property near her hometown of Minerva, Ohio as “a getaway” from the fast-paced L.A. life. “I’ve never been anywhere as beautiful as Minerva,” she told a neighboring newspaper.
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino