Texas Instruments TI-89 Tip List page 45

Thereafter most of the battles took place there, and the land of 89 and 92+ was saved from the horrors
of war. And through the end of the Golden Age, and even a bit after it ended, the jihad carried on in
the battlefield of comparisons, and the warriors fought each other valiantly on the fields were the bones
of many fallen heros lay.
Legends of the discussion groups: "The dark wizard and the magik runes"
by Ray "Homer he ain't" Kremer [20:16, 12/22/01]
One peaceful day at the end of the week-time, a dark wizard came to the Realm of the discussion
groups. He had discovered a weekness in the Realm, that the fields of topik were vulnerable to spells
of html, for the magik runes of angle brackets passed through the fields as they were without
conversion into the codes of ampersand. The dark wizard took advantage of this knowledge and
began to wreak havoc in the lands of the Realm, bringing forth unnatural talismans that turned the
lands dark and fearsome.
In one land the dark wizard attempted a powerful spell of Javascript, but the magik was too powerful
for the wizard to contain and the spell swept over the land as a great fog, and anyone who entered the
land was unable to see anything. Undaunted, the wizard traveled to another land and cast spells that
caused to appear great images of women of loose morals. The wizard thought this a great prank, but
the peoples of the land were filled with dismay. The great sage Ray Kremer saw the evil that the wizard
had done there, and to thwart the wizard he copied the spell of Javascript, and cast it with errors as the
wizard had, and a great fog fell upon that land too, and it hid the images along with everything else.
Soon came the beginning of the next week-time, and from atop Mount Texas the great creator Paul
King looked down and saw the evil that had been wrought, and he cast down his lightning bolt upon the
thread that were infected with the spells of html, and he placed a great spell of protection upon the
fields of topik so that they never again would be affected by the magik runes of angle brackets. The
dark wizard, with his powers removed from him, was never heard from again.
But the fields of topik are not protected from all magik runes, for the marks of quotation are still taken
wrongly by the fields when a re-ply is made upon a post.
Legends of the Discussion Groups: "The Re-creation"
by Ray "Homer he ain't" Kremer [0:30, 12/23/01]
It came to pass in the ancient year of mmi that the creators looked down from Mount Texas and said to
themselves, "Our domain has become stagnant. We should beat it down with cataclysms and rebuild it
anew." And there was much agreement, and they set about at the task of re-creation.
Finally they finished, and the world was much changed from what it had been. And from the peoples in
the Realm of the discussion groups came a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and they cried out
"The great cities of the world have been rearranged, and we know not the lay of the land, and it is
impossible to find anything."
The appearance of the world was changed too. Gone were the colors of the sky and ocean. They were
replaced with the colors of fire and the autumn. And from the peoples in the Realm of the discussion
groups came a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and they cried out "Our eyes cannot bear to look
upon the world now. Surely we will all vomit if we view the altered lands any further."
But the creators atop Mount Texas were satisfied with their labors, and they closed their ears to the
complaints of the people.
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