

  Alice Travels


  WASHINGTON

  Washington DC
  September 25, 1994

                                                 Alice Awards Trolleys

  A new arrival to our town this week was Alice, the noted computer bon
  vivant, and my friend.  She was reported to be here to present free
  copies of WindoWatch magazine to all federal employees along with a
  complimentary cardboard computer for wallet or purse.

  The talk around the cocktail circuit is that old Alice has a few
  tricks up her sleeve to ease the bipartisan tensions. She intends to
  unveil Translator 1.01 for Windows, and Translator 1.01 for DOS 8.0.
  Each is quite different, and the two together are expected to make a
  splash at the upcoming Computer Press Party that is being thrown at
  the Lincoln Memorial real soon now.  In gratitude to us hardworking
  writers, we will get chicken a la king and jelly donuts and a free
  trolley ride between the Building Museum and the Botanical Garden.
  Workers are hard apace laying the tracks for the trolley, which have
  been appropriated from excess Education funds.

  Anyhow, the buzz at the latest Garden Club Institute bubbler is that
  Alice has devised a device for divining exactly what congressmen are
  saying, and translating it over headphones so that the guys in the
  opposite corner will understand. She calls it delicatessen translation,
  and we can hardly wait to try it on for size. And just in time for that
  recess period we have all been counting on.

  Peter Neuendorffer    (c) 1994


