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Vol. 4, No. 37

September 11, 1998

Brian lets the cat out of the bag. Read all about it after checking out what's new on the site.

NEW FEATURES

Bigleaguers Page Builder
Celebrate Mark McGwire's 62nd home run of the season by building a quick and easy fan page. The Bigleaguers Page Builder has photos and stats for all your favorite players (no programming necessary!)

Major League player chats:
J. T. Snow, SF Giants -- Tuesday, September 15th @ 3pm ET
Joe Girardi, NY Yankees -- Wednesday, September 16th @ 1pm ET
Steve Finley, San Diego Padres -- Friday, September 25th @ TBA

Ask The Doctor
Dr. Bob tackles questions on hearing, bee stings & ozone therapy.

CDNOW PRESENTS TEN14:

When you purchase a CD by any of the more than 300 artists who have been nominated for, or won, an MTV VMA, CDnow will send you a FREE CD featuring winners and nominees covering the award show's entire history.

THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR

Visit the Photos ToGo online gallery on Tripod. The Photos ToGo image archive has thousands of images for all your design needs.

CHAT WITH THE EDITOR OF THE TRIPOD BOOK

Chat with Matt Goldberg, editor of TRIPOD'S TOOLS FOR LIFE: Streetsmart Strategies for Work, Life and Everything Else on Monday, September 14th at 8PM ET/5PM PT

NEW PODS: Tripod's Member Communities

Support the New England Patriots football team in the Patriots Fan Pod

Dark sounds from goth to heavy metal in the Dark Rock Pod!

Curtain up! Light the lights! It's the Theater Pod.

Find out about paranormal phenomenon in the Paranormal/UFO Pod.

LETTERS FROM TRIPOD

Emma Taylor spends some quality time at the Washington County Fair's demolition derby.

DISCOVERING LYCOS

Wrap up summer with a last burst of great fun-in-the-sun links.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

The whole world's talking about Mark McGwire!

The Radical Academy's Web site for news junkies.

Welcome to Sue's English home in Alaska!

Tripod Insider

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Well, I am learning my way around Williamstown and the Tripod site during my second week here. I have explored the town's two commercial streets (Water and Spring) and stood transfixed by the town's only traffic light (upgraded from a blinking yellow to the real-changing- color-type). But at least I am not alone. Don LeClaire joins Tripod as Senior Software Engineer and Neil Bibbins joins us to take over Gayle O'Brien's job as Membership Assistant. Gayle is moving into the Editorial department, where she and Gail Burns intend to confuse everyone by being the editors named Gail/Gayle who have graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.

Adventure of the week: Senior Editor Emma Taylor, Software Engineer Brian Rogers and Designer Jay Patrikios set off for the City of Angels last Friday afternoon to visit former Tripod editors Dan Reines and Lori Tuckett, both of whom heeded the call "Go west, young person!" back in July. While this was ostensibly a pleasure trip, Brian had an ulterior motive in taking Emma and Jay along. He needed their help to carry Lori's two cats across country. These were carry-on cats, in special carrier bags. Apparently getting the cats into the bags at Brian's house was a breeze, but taking them out so that the bags could go through the scanner in the airport was another matter — and Brian bears the scars to prove it. Moral of the story: It is better to have a cat scan than to let the cat out of the bag. OUCH!

The story does have a happy ending though. The cats feigned some interest in being reunited with Lori, everyone had a great time in L.A. and they all reappeared in scenic Billsville on Tuesday morning with scarcely a trace of jet lag.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail Geoff Strawbridge, Membership Product Manager. His mailbox is always open.
Geoff Strawbridge
Membership Product Manager
[email protected]

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

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