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revised 11/3/00

I have been on the net since long before there was a web. Yes, the internet goes all the way back to 1979, but I did not find it until 1983. It was a wintry night on the Cornell campus, when Karl Torvic, a Dungeons and Dragons buddy of mine, took me into the bowels of Uris Hall and introduced me to the intricacies of "relay," the forerunner of today's IRC. In those days one bolt of lightening to the generator on the roof of Langmuir Lab out by the airport in Ithaca, NY took out most of the net in upstate New York. This was a GREY internet, but we didn't call it that. It waas called Bitnet.

These days I am also ZOIDRubashov, creator of ZOID CITY Community and Commuity Competition. I began work on ZOID after four rather unhappy weeks at Site Fights. ZOID is different from most voting and visiting competitions on the web. ZOID scores openly, allows dissent, and encourages members to work and explore outside the competition's boundaries.

Others of you know me as a channeler and amateur medium. I am still active though I wish I had time to write down my logs like in the "old days." Put quite simply, I believe immortality of the human soul and the ability to communicate with the dead. If you are curious about this, check out my channeling pages.

Beyond the net, I cook from scratch. I particularly enjoy making my own soups and salads, even the dressings. I enjoy reading magazines and novels. I am not sure I have any favoites, except that the Atlantic would rate highly. I also take many long solitary walks.

I am a nondriving New Yorker who two years ago relocated in Western Georgia. One of my web pages, Less Than Three Percent, is about that relocation. It also has a small recipe section. When I get homesick I like to read Forgotten New York. I think the net keeps me sane and happy. The net gives me a chance to try and do what money, property, and time do not allow me to do in real life. I feel that I am priviledged to have these two lives side by side.
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These are my adopted angels. On the left is the boy, Willard Noah, and on the right is the girl, Salix Vajra. I adopted them February 22, 2000 from Di's Angels. They are my prolife angels. Yes, I oppose abortion. Does that offend you? Quite simply put a fetus is a living, sentient being and given a few weeks to months a viable human being.

We also live in a country that has basicly decided to turn its back on those most in need. Already one state has started rationing Medicaid health care. That is the same state that allows assisted suicide. Clearly it costs less to do away with a terminally ill patient than to provide adequate pain contorl and palliative care. It is cheaper for the powers that be to not pay for poor children through welfare payments, and we have had welfare reform. Abortion is part of this, though interestingly enough the fereal government does not pay for it.

Moreover with our knowledge of the human genome, how long will it be until parents can have their children genetically engineered? Yes, you can have the best children on the market. Do we really want people to become commodities that can be gotten rid of if they are too burdensome or not perfect? Isn't human life precious, and shouldn't this include life in the womb?

And by the way, I am not in favor of a constitutional ammendment or any other effort to outlaw abortion. The law is a blunt instrument, and people will niether obey nor enforce it unless they believe in it. I believe in changing people's hearts and minds before they have to make a decision. We need to stand behind the children who are already here with decent funding for education and nutrition programs that include Food Stamps. Yes, let's support mothers so they do not have to consider killing their unborn offspring.

These angels are part of a campaign to change people's minds. I adopted my first angel as part of a spoof web page and only as I was tweaking the graphic and puting it up, did I realize that each child in the womb was an angel. I guess I had always known, but living amongst "liberal" folks I had been taught that to be prolife was an anathma. I had forgotten to make up my own mind. Di's Angels are rather powerful. That is why they are on this page.