Re: Cypherpunks as lobbying/propagandizing group

[werner@mc.ab.com]

>From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
>Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 17:38:54 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I can't think of much bad press, frankly. (The NSA guy's comment about
>Woodstock and trig homework, maybe, but that was more than countered
>by Bruce Sterling's closing talk at CFP and other talks. No big deal.)

When I thought back to where I was during Woodstock, I remembered that it
took place in the summer.  The only ones doing homework would have been
those in summer school, not the nerds.  Personally, I had just graduated
from high school.

A guy I was working with invited me to go with him to Woodstock, on the
Thursday before the big weekend, but I didn't know what he was talking
about.  He was going with a bunch of people in a semi trailer.

He never came back to work.  At least, not that summer.  I've often
wondered what would have happened if I had accepted his offer.  But you
didn't have to go to Woodstock to do LSD.  There was plenty of it in
Cleveland in 1969.  (Still is, from what I hear).

However, I wasn't doing trig homework.  I was assembling vacuum cleaners.

tw