Rudy Rucker.....Subgenius?

From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 6:43 PM
Message-ID: <3BBCE5F6.3EE6B12F@carbon.cudenver.edu>

These paintings may hold a clue:
http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/links.htm

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
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Subject: Re: Rudy Rucker.....Subgenius?
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2001 6:45 PM
Message-ID: <3BBCE699.37787DFF@carbon.cudenver.edu>

Note for instance the Stangish fellow in painting 3, the saucer
themes, and the squid.
--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
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Subject: Re: Rudy Rucker.....Subgenius?
From: "Rev Jerry" <jthreet@team-vci.com>

> >

Sorry man..I thought you were calling the guy a fag in Scooby Doo talk.....
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Subject: Re: Rudy Rucker.....Subgenius?
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Rev. Rudy Rucker has been a dues-paying SubGenius minister since the
80s or very early 90s. In fact he penned a whole essay about how he
became a SubGenius that was reprinted in one of his collections,
"TRANSREAL." It's the next to last essay in the book. ""Bob's" Three
Miracles and Me" is the name of the essay. He originally wrote it for
THREE FISTED TALES OF "BOB," but I didn't use it because it wasn't a
"tale" about "Bob."

Also, he described me in it as "weasily looking," although I think he
ammended that to "ruggedly handsome" (at my request) by the time it got
in this collection.

He, John Shirley, Lewis Shiner, and Bruce Sterling were all on a
"cyberpunk" panel at an sf con somewhere, which is the first time I met
Shirley, Rucker and Sterling. Sterling is not a dues paying SubGenius
and will likely die on X-Day... DAMN, 'cause he's certainly a
SYMPATHISER, he just never coughed up that measly ticket to
immortality.

Rucker is one of several weird-ass math nerds in the Church, another
fairly visible one being Dr. Mojo, whose Mojoworld program demo is now
downloadable at http://www.pandromeda.com (it's like a Bryce 3D world,
but you can fly around in it -- and then make your own.) Mojo is they
guy who invented the rendering engine that made Bryce and some other 3D
graphics programs possible. He's also the mad rocket and explosives
hobbyist who gets us in trouble at Brushwood every year when his "art"
causes horses for miles around to kick down their stables in terror.
The Amish HATE Mojo...

Rucker also created the world's first home fractals program, for
Autodesk, in the olden days. The world's first psychedelic screen
saver, you might say. He put an Authorized Dobbshead into it as one of
the templates around which the swirly colors would mutate. I have a
copy of the program/book, but it is on a bunch of those big round
actually FLOPPY actual DISKS, I suppose for IBM computers that predate
even me. You know, that format that came after punch cards but before
holocubes.

This Has Been Your SubGenius History Trivia Man

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Subject: Re: Rudy Rucker.....Subgenius?
From: "St. Marc the Perpetually Amused" <disciple@templeoferis.org>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2001 12:52 PM
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote in message
news:051020011050413417%stang@subgenius.com...

> The Amish HATE Mojo...

I can think of no higher recommendation for a person than "It could honestly
be said of him that even the Amish hated him."

I am sitting here slowly shaking my head in awe. I can just barely get my
brain around the concept of somebody who could make an Amish person hate
him. I can just barely get my brain around the concept of an Amish person
hating anybody or anything. And I studied quantum mechanics AND law. My
brain's got more dimensions than Sister Decadence's topology.

Wow.

St. Marc
Realizes That Was A Casual Comment, But Still...
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Subject: Re: Rudy Rucker.....Subgenius?
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>

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Of course! I remember the Dobbshead in one of his programs.

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
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Subject: Re: Rudy Rucker.....Subgenius?
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>

So that *is* you in the saucer picture. Here is where you can get
the Cell Lab freeware cellular automata program with Dobbshead
initial conditions:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."

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