nessus@nsc.UUCP@tekecs.UUCP (nessus@nsc.UUCP) (10/03/83)
Re: recent articles in these newsgroups{shaving legs, long hair, women
in computing}
1. I don't shave my legs. There have been many articles about how
**AWFUL** unshaven legs are under nylons. My solution:
I wear tights. I can find them in almost any color to go with
anything I wear. They are much thicker than nylons, therefore warmer.
I buy the really thick kind[like Danskin(tm)], that one associates with
dancers and such. After my friends got used to me wearing them, they
gave me no hassles. Also, tights don't run as easily as nylons. I had
a pair for a year, and the only reason they ran was because I scraped
my foot brushing against a cement wall. I wouldn't touch the stuff
palmed off as "opaqe panty hose"; you can still see through them more
easily than through my car windows...
However, they[and nylons] have the annoying habit of sticking to my
dresses/skirts/pants. Does anyone know how to cure this problem? It
cannot be insurmountable, because I have seen other women walking around
that don't have this problem. If I wear a slip, the slip sticks, and
I'm back where I started. Can anyone advise me by mail?
Any men that have {constructive} advice will not have their names
announced to the net[:-)]. Also I have had luck with a silk slip, at
least with Danskin[(tm)] skirts, but silk slips are too expensive for my
budget.
2. I wear my hair moderately long[middle of my back], frequently tied back
pony-tail style. People say this looks good on me, and it is easy to
implement. All it requires is a brushing-out[ghastly/painful process]
in the morning. Have you ever gone done the freeway with windows open,
then tried[!] to brush long hair out? That is almost an excuse in
itself for cutting my hair, but I enjoy having long hair too much.
3. I am into hardware. Repairing/debugging prototypes is my primary job.
My TI99/4A is going to get 8-inch floppies, {parallel port for}TRS-80
printer/plotter, 128K RAM and more in the near future. All of these
things I am having to build myself because my computer budget is =<0.
Also, I think TI has braindamaged some of their peripherals from a
hardware point of view. Mind you this is the point of view of the
author, not the author's employer, and is expressed as a personal
opinion not to be construed as slander/libel/etc.
I realize that #3 does not relate to CS, but I just wanted to include myself.
Paranoidally yours,
Kchula-Rrit
I was given this address: !menlo70!nsc!nessus
or: !fortune!nsc!nessus