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Vol. 2, No. 16

August 23, 1996

Welcome to another Tripod Insider -- your source for all things Tripod. It's a slow week for office gossip so the Insider has a little fun with numbers. Play the numbers game after the editors tell you what's new on Tripod.

Content And Services

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WORK & MONEY
Sometimes the workplace can feel like a battlefield. Therefore, Tripod's Work and Money section is kicking off a new series of columns by West Coast correspondent Catherine Hedgecock, entitled "Tales from the Trenches." These pieces will deal with unusual "lifelong learning" experiences on the job -- the important stuff about work they don't teach you in college. This week's column concerns a difficult lesson learned during a grisly murder investigation! Zowie! Elsewhere, the Survey looks into the future of online shopping, the Dilemma helps an aspiring music teacher find the business beat, and we conclude our two-part interview with Information Broker Sue Rugge.

-- Randy Williams, Editor

POLITICS & COMMUNITY
This week in Politics & Community, Political Playbook gives you a preview of next week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago. You'll know what to look for, what not to look for -- hell, you might want to skip watching it altogether. The GOP has been playing up Bob Dole's status as war hero, so this week's survey asks you about your personal heroes. And Tools for Thought does its best to inject some fun into the campaign season by reviewing "Bob Roberts," the comedy starring Tim Robbins as an extreme right wing political candidate/folk singer.

-- Anthony Qaiyum, Editor

HOMELIFE
This week in Living and Travel, Tripod goes camping. Forget your average camping first aid kit -- there are homeopathic remedies for everything from insect bites to diarrhea. In the interview, Lise Carrigg, founder of Girls on Film, chats about girls on the Web and why women's print magazines have no balls. In the survey, debate life on Mars and why no one seems to care. Why was this not a "giant step" like man on the Moon? Doctor Bob answers questions about potassium and leg cramps; child abuse and loss of sexual desire; and how to find the birth control pill that's right for you. And in Tools for Thought, we review the much-hyped film "Trainspotting" and find that it has nothing to do with heroin chic.

-- Emma Taylor, Editor

Tripod Insider

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I would like to thank all the wonderful Tripod members and faithful Tripod Insider readers who sent all the get-well messages and cards. I appreciate all the concern and support. I'm sorry that I cannot reply to each of you personally, but I'm still working on e-mail from early August. As is often the case when one is sick, I've been inundated with advice by my co-workers. The best advice, however, came from the tech staff who told me to just get more RAM.

This has been a pretty uneventful week at the Tripod offices, so this week's Insider lists some statistics (the "Insider Index," so to speak) that provide a little insight, and hopefully some humor, into the state of Tripod.

• Total number of Tripod members: 76988
• Population of Williamstown, MA: 6368
• Number of times our Chairman has registered because he forgot his password: 16

• Total number of Tripod member homepages: 29,462
• Amount of disk space those pages occupy: 1.05 gigbytes
• Amount of disk space used by the Tripod website: 60 megabytes

• Number of flavors of Squeeze Soda in our office machine: 8
• Number of people who actually drink Diet Raspberry: 0

• Ratio of full time staff to summer interns: 2:1
• Number of Tripod staff who where once interns: 7
• Number of full time staff (August 1995): 9
• Number of full time staff now: 20

• Number of Tripod T-shirts given away to members: 1439
• Number of Tripod T-shirts sold on-line: 32

• Ratio of tech computers to tech staff: 11:4

• Number of injuries sustained by staff during Tripod related activities: 9
• Number those injuries sustained by Bruce: 3

• Number of books C.E.Bo has read for pleasure: 1

• Number of e-mail aliases for Anthony: 8 ('politics', 'article','citizen', 'anthony', 'tony', 'tq', 'g', & 'bubba')

I have no idea where 'bubba' came from, but he's got an e-mail address.

Tripod Membership

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Thanks for becoming a member of Tripod.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me.
My mailbox is always open.

Tung T. Pham
Membership Director
[email protected]

This has been another issue of the Tripod Insider, the occasional newsletter on what's happening at Tripod. Past issues of the Tripod Insider are also available.

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