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Here's your chance
to tell me what for. If you'd like to mail your own letter, go to the
Feedback page, or e-mail me at sitesee@aye.net.
May 24, 2002
Hi, Dave,
Thanks for your very entertaining and informative internet articles in LEO magazine. You have a great writing style!
This week's column about the weather "fear-mongers" is especially
outstanding. The shrill hyperbole used to attract the lowest common denominator
viewer is an insult to the intelligence of thinking people. It seems that
the "target audience" of the vacuous TV weather (and what they
refer to as "news") only hears every third or fourth word spoken
and jumps to conclusions without putting anything in context.
(They listen to the emotional TV weather personalities and panic.)
NOAA weather radio is a great and sober service that I have listened to for years and was glad to see it mentioned in your column. Also, thanks for the tip about weatherbug.com. I downloaded the program and it seems to be working well so far.
You are probably familiar with these urban legend and virus hoax debunking sites. However, I think they are well done and worth a visit:
http://www.snopes2.com/
http://www.urbanlegends.com/
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blhoax.htm?PM=ss11_urbanlegends
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoax.asp
http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm
http://www.cdc.gov/hoax_rumors.htm
http://www.korova.com/virus/hoax.htm
"Other" sites:
http://www.majorgeeks.com (check
the links and Way Off Base section)
http://www.weirdlinks.com/
http://webworst.about.com/index.htm
Thanks again for your excellent LEO columns!
Cheers!--H.S., St. Matthews, KY
April 3, 2002
About the LEO/iMac article. Well said.
A friend once asked me why I have an apple sticker on my car. That has been one of the most difficult questions I have ever tried to answer. I make fun of people who have "Pissing Calvin"and "32" stickers on their car. Yet here I am with a sticker for a Computer Company!? Now I¹ll just have my friend read your article. Maybe the answer is to get stickers made that say "It¹s a Mac thing, you wouldn¹t understand"
God, that would be awful.
-Bill
(my birthday is also around the corner)
The offending column can be found here.
As I've said: PCs are tools. Macs are a lifestyle decision.
Oct. 26, 2001
I was reading about your unabashed geekiness and Star Trek. I have a few interesting sites for you to take a look at that are indeed high on the geek scale if you have not seen them before.
Missile Bases: 20th Century Castles
Here in the next 24 hours, it is entirely likely you will be able to see the Northern Lights due to an impending geomagnetic storm. Some of this is cool, but extremely geeky.
I look at your columns as a close friend of mine lives in Louisville, but I reside in Houston, TX.
Yours in geekiness,
L.W.
The offending column can be found here.
July 11, 2001
Dear Internet Siteseer:
In your most recent LEO column, you mentioned your difficulty in thinking of a movie that featured the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. I recommend the 1964 film "The Starfighters", featuring a young "B-1 Bob" Dornan. There are unfortunately no catastrophic crashes in the film, but you can entertain yourself for hours re-enacting the many gripping refueling scenes!
Sincerely,
D.L.
The offending column can be found here.
June 15, 2001
Dave,
I'm writing you having just read your column in LEO from the May 9 edition. I have a slight backlog on my LEO's that I'm slowly working to catch up on.
I just turned 30, and I only barely remember Captain Kentucky. I seem
to have a hazy recollection of a secret room in the Galt House that he
either busted
into, or buested out of on at least one occasion. I never realized that
Don Rosa was the artist behind the Captain. I first became aware of Rosa
from his Uncle
Scrooge days. I have a couple copies of the Scrooge book when he recounts
his history and how he came to America. He was in Louisville and visited
the original
Galt House before he got into a treasure hunt involving a paddle-wheeler
and the Ohio river.
Anyway, in your article you mentioned Captain Kentucky books and I was wondering if you knew if they might still be available anywhere. I've checked out Amazon and Barnes and Noble's websites but I can only find Walt Disney books from him. If you could give me any more information about the Capt Ky books, like maybe exact titles, I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks,
Rob
The offending column can be found here.
Glad to see someone else remembers Captain Kentucky, if only vaguely.
The books are The Captain Kentucky Collection, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and
Vol.
3, and they are probably long since out of print. Rosa self-published
the first one, and The Falls Of The Ohio Science Fiction And Fantasy Association
published Vol. 2 and 3. You might check with the FOSFFA. The address is
Post Office Box 37281, Louisville, Kentucky 40233-7281 (I couldn't find
an e-mail address, but I'm sure they have one if you'd like to go hunting.)
You can find all the strips online at http://thor.prohosting.com/~asger/.
June 13, 2001 (Letter to the editor published in LEO)
Dear Mr. Yarmuth,I have been a reader and fan of LEO for a long time. For the most part, your articles are informative, well-written and often amusing. I must say, however, that I was disappointed and disturbed by the May 30 "Internet Siteseeing" column by Dave Davis. The comments Mr. Davis makes about the Peter Pan Web site are inappropriate, intolerant and completely homophobic. Mr. Davis is certainly entitled to his opinion, and I can understand a negative reaction to the site. However, I cannot imaging that he was so unsettled that he actually wanted "to punch the guy just to watch him cry." After using workds like "creepy, horrific, evil and ickyness," Mr. Davis goes on to suggest that Peter must be homosexual. Despite the fact that Peter emphatically states he is looking for a woman, Mr. Davis is sure he is gay because of his "pixie haircut, tights and apparent lack of a Y chromosome." Frankly, I expected more from LEO than such inane, immature comments.
J.G.
The offending column can be found here.
Hoo boy. Whacked a raw nerve there, didn't I?
June 2, 2001
Dave,
I read your column in the recent LEO. I have not been to any of the
sites but
I did see a show on TV about child beauty pageants. I heartily agree with
you. On the show they had a wig made for an infant because she had no
hair.
PLEASE. Can't we appreciate them for their natural beauty as children
instead
of making them look like something they won't be for several years? Child
beauty pageants are fine as long as they look like children, which most
ohem
don't.
J.H
The offending column can be found here.
For the record, I agree wholeheartedly.
June 1, 2001
Dave Davis,
I cannot thank you enough for the past couple columns that recently made yours my favorite to look forward to. I've traced your footsteps and gone to all the creepy websites and find myself fascinated at the human beings that actually devote their time to them. Where do you get your tips to these sites? Or do you just randomly pull them up off searches? I'd really be interested to know...I look forward to weekly internet excursions on the web with your articles as my guide. Please (I beg you - PLEASE) keep em comin'. I don't think I'm the only one that enjoys them (or am I just as creepy as those you write about?) thanks a bunch - I look forward to more!
-J.
The offending column can be found here.
Gosh! So you're the person who's been reading. Glad we finally got together.
As for where I find stuff, it kind of depends on the column. If I have a pretty firm idea on what I want to write about, I'll do a search on yahoo, google, ask.com or other search engines. Other times, when I'm straining for an idea (usually the night before deadline), I'll go surfing till I hit on something. Some of the best ideas come from weblogs (affectionately known as blogs) like www.memepool.com and www.boingboing.net.
Again, thank you very much for writing (and reading). Hope I'll keep entertaining you far into the future.
March 27, 2001
Hi,
I saw an article you wrote back in January in Leo (Louisville.com) and
wanted to send you my web page address: www.dontweightaround.com
I live in Louisville, Kentucky. My girlfriend and I have lost over 270
pounds together.
B.C.
Good for you all! The before and after pictures are impressive. You're an example to the rest of us who need to lose the love handles.
March 12, 2001
Mr. Davis,
In your "Internet Siteseeing" column in the March 7 LEO, you
mention a lack
of VCR-like devices for recording radio broadcasts at a certain time.
A few weeks ago, we bought a new stereo at the Oxmoor Sears, a model MX-J900 by JVC, which has just such a feature. I'm pretty sure it's not the only one with that capability. I haven't read all of the instructions yet, so I don't know if the cassette will auto-reverse while recording, but even then I don't believe you could record an entire football or basketball game on one cassette, especially if it's also being shown on TV. I remember once when a hockey game (three twenty-minute periods, right?) took over four hours on a Fox station, completely obliterating the show I had tried to tape. But that's another story.
Anyway, I thought you might like to know.
I enjoy your column and read it every week. Thanks.
Regards,
P.L.
Thanks for the tip.