The Editors of the Microsnooze.

The week before the next company meeting the Micronews had a drawing on the front page of a bunch of happy Softies in a car. A little sign pointing in the direction of the car showed that they were headed to the meeting. In those days we had two meetings a year and they were even more boring than they are now. So we decided to put out a prank Micronews. A person who has asked to remain anonymous had recently referred to the Micronews as "Microsnooze", so we borrowed the name.

A little hacking with a pen and scissors and the cover drawing showed happy Softies leaving the meeting. And we came up with many more funny stories, mostly referring to various things that had happened in the previous year or so.

Again, a midnight dispersal (by the four of us, with the help of one of Raymond's friends, Michel Jackson).

For some reason, a whole bunch of people decided that Karl Schulmeisters and Dave Perlin had done it. While they were good friends of ours, they in fact had nothing to do with it. One of the articles in the next issue was adamant about this point...which of course merely convinced those people that they'd done it all the more.

We did a second issue timed for April First, which was preceded by a press release announcing it. SteveB had liked the first issue quite a bit, so we made even more fun of him in the second one. Apparently we pushed it too far, although I think most people still enjoyed it. But we decided that we should quit while we were ahead. About a year later, Raymond and Todd left the company. The Editors of the Microsnooze were dead.

A few years later, Dave Norris and I found out that the company had paid an enormous amount of money to some logo designer for an astonishingly bland new logo. We got some buttons made, and made a memo showing the history of the Microsnooze logo (6 of them!), with some sarcasm attacking the need to change logos and various other silly labeling and packaging things, and signed it "The Editors of the Microsnooze", even though Todd and Raymond were gone. One Sunday night Dave and I and several others (for the first time including the maligned Karl Schulmeisters and Dave Perlin) distributed 1000 of these memos and a "Save the Blibbet" button to every office chair on campus. We ran a little short, so we had to have a few more made and distributed them a few days later. Apparently a lot of people knew who'd done it, as one old timer pointed out to me one of the logos we'd missed.