From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net), Sun Aug 20 2000
>The context I heard of it in is wide-spread/generic use.
I'm hopelessly out of touch with what is "wide-spread/generic use"
the last 3 or 4 years: TV, Internet, etc.
>For example,
>http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19990928S0001
Thank you (and Barbara too).
Whew.
>Are you sure that you're the Amara it's attributed to? Granted, "Amara"
>is not the most common of names, but it could have been put out by
>another Amara.
Yes there are other Amaras. Not many. Most of them with Internet
access (usually teenage girls) have contacted me in the last 5 years
telling me that I have their name (!). I wish that Roy Amara was one of
them.
Interesting coincidence, that the Amara's Law quote resembled my
sci.physics post. I'll have to write that lady in North Carolina and
tell her.
And I wonder who is the "Amara" that signed up for KCSM radio station
real audio feed from the S.F. Bay Area? I tried to sign up with an
"Amara" username a couple weeks ago, and it *was taken*. (*sob*)
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