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Vol. 4, No. 40

October 2, 1998

This week, Dwayne's hanging from the rafters.
Read all about it after checking out what's new on the site.

NEW FEATURES

You ask, Evel answers. Advice on love, gun control, and stunt ideas.

Check out Tripod's Back to Skool, I mean Back to School, mini-site!

Swap banners and get more traffic to your site with TripodClicks.

Dr. Bob tackles questions on nervousness, angina, and the long term effects of Dexatrim.

Premium Members: Find out how many people are peeking at your page with TripodStats.

THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR

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CHECK OUT THE TRIPOD BOOK

Newsweek loved it, and you will too. The Tripod book — Tripod's Tools for Life: Streetsmart Strategies for Work, Life — and Everything Else. Its a savvy mix of professional content and thousands of tips, exhortations, cautionary tales, and confessions from Tripod members just like you. Buy it online for only $12.80 — 20% off the retail price of $16.00.

OPRAH RECOMMENDS

Oprah chooses Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. See if you agree. Click here to buy it for only $6.60 — a 45% savings!

MEET THE HOME RUN CHAMP

Will it be Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa? Win a trip to Orlando to meet the champ at the Player's Choice Awards. Find the "home run" ball hidden on the Bigleaguers site and you can submit your name for the drawing to be held Oct. 12. Click on the Big League Blast icon.

NEW PODS: Tripod's Member Communities

Be berwy, berwy quiet. We're hunting wabbits in the Hunting Pod.

Players and fans of ice hockey are welcome in the Hockey Pod.

Skiers, skaters, and snowboarders unite in the Winter Sports Pod

LETTERS FROM TRIPOD

Neapolitan saints, big hair, and fried dough — Maggie's addicted to the San Genaro Festival.

DISCOVERING LYCOS

Celebrate the launch of the NFL season by creating your own portfolio of your favorite players with Lycos' new Fantasy Sports game provided by new partner Wall Street Sports.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Check out the exhibit at MOMA — the Museum of Monica Art.

Great fan page for former Baywatch babe Alexandra Paul.

Tons of support and information for sufferers of chronic pain.

Tripod Insider

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Autumn has arrived in the Berkshires, and with its arrival comes a flurry of activity. The leaves are almost at their peak, the weather is unpredictable and Tripod continues to grow (dare we say "mature"?) as a company. We welcome two new additions to the Pod Family: Karry Bengtson and Justin Harrison. Karry comes to us from grad school at Syracuse where her advertising degree and virtual fish bowl talents will be excellent preparation for our marketing revolution. Justin joins us from Bowdoin — he brings some backcountry skills to our merry band. Having spent a NOLS semester in Wyoming hauling an 80-pound pack on his back, he'll soon learn how to dig himself out from the deluge of e-mail and marketing research we throw his way!

On Friday evening everyone went to Dick Sabot's backyard for "drive-in" movies, with Dick's menagerie of cats and dogs wandering over, under, and around the movie-goers. It wasn't too cold, but boy was it dark! Too dark to tell if anyone was necking in the balcony, so no juicy stories to tell of blossoming liaisons between Tripodians.

On Tuesday, chaos reigned as the new phone system was installed. Jenny ran around with a crazed look on her face as she tried to connect phone calls to people without phones. Dwayne was literally climbing the walls and hanging from the rafters, running phone cable throughout the building. And Heather Snowman, already frazzled from doing all the bean-counting without Bruce, was command central with her floor plan in hand, making sure everyone attended one of the two-hour phone training sessions. You know you're in trouble when it takes two hours to explain the new phone system to computer geeks.

Thanks for becoming a member of Tripod. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me. My mailbox is always open.

Geoff Strawbridge
Membership Magnate
[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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