/*The Authoritave History of TFJ
(or the history books are written by the winners," by a winner)

Why me to write a history? I don't really know. Perhaps because I was both involved in the conception and the death. From beginning to end. Although I was closely involved at the beginning, at the later times I let myself drift away from it; maintaining objectivity on the subject matter.

It was in the fall that it began, a project devised by Shige and Carl. Now, let me tell you a little bit about the two of them. First, there was Carl. A brilliant but undisciplined student, Carl and I had a lot in common. Even now, as I read his transfinite joy articles, I feel a certain kinship with him. In my opinion, Carl was the driving force behind TFJ. He had the HTML skills and the knowhow to make it happen. Shige, on the other hand, was our resident philosopher. Almost failing school because of 'but what's the point?' attitude, he spent most of the time debating on the articles and what their significance was. As for me, well, I tried to keep an objective point of view and made sure things were in order. The fruitation of TFJ came at a time when my idea of hard work was thinking of new ways to steal food from Kiwi and Patrick's room and I thought GPA meant "Go Play AoE".

Anyway, one bright fall morning, Transfinite Joy was complete. So we set up the webpage and then listed it as the homepage for all the computers. Except for the macs, because they were so goddamn slow that we couldn't start them. It was an overnight success. The next issue, everybody wanted a piece of the action. Bearing this in mind, I slacked off. In fact, I pretty much quit. After all, with all the new articles flooding in, I felt that TFJ was well on schedule. Things quieted down during the interim- we were all busy, and half the staff was in frickin europe. But, when we all got back, we set our minds to it; and lo and behold, we got more and more submissions. gradually, however, I noticed a slight change in the manner of the chronicle. It had become less philosophy and more humor. While that was fine, and I was perfectly happy with the students making it into whatever the hell they wanted, I noticed that in one of the last issues, the humor was based on making fun of the students.

Now, I don't profess to enjoy censorship, but there was no place for picking on students in a magazine that was supposed to bring us together. Having more than my adequate supply of rage, (believe me, Mrs. Rutherford has enough British idiocy to inspire a saint to kick her in the shins) I started calling for the death of Transfinite Joy. Shige and I also started a side project going that very few people knew about...Fight Club. So, that article by Aziz (then ask aziz in the "classics" of the last issue) heralded the little-known, much-debated discussion of TFJ's death. I gave Carl two options: for TFJ to either start censoring or die altogether. I have no real idea of how I was going to bring about its death, but all three of us seemed pretty convinced that if I quit, it would die. Needless to say, Carl, who considered this project his 'kid', wasn't too pleased with the latter idea.

So, we started censoring articles, much to the outrage of the general public. I still stand by this decision today. Well, that was pretty much it. The year went up and finished pretty easily, TFJ was popular right until "The Death of Transfinite Joy" issue, and by then it had almost achieved cult status. C'est la vie.

ellis */

That's.. cute.  Anyway, it excludes something very important from the whole situation.  That is me.  Hi, my name is Lewis Gunter and I suffered govie-death in June of 2000.  I was with Transfinitejoy when Ellis was barely hatched.  Carl, the mate of my room, and Shige, my "almost Japanese" Suitey, started it, true.  However, I was collecting and writing articles and uploading and updating TFJ way before Ellis even came in to the picture.  I would also argue with the idea that there was ever a "cult" following of transfinitejoy.  People may ask in passing when the next one would be uploaded.  There is apparently a cult dedicated to wondering how I'm doing on a particular day through Ellis's logic.  Anyway, I just wanted to give credit where credit is due.  TFJ was a happy publication for several months long before it's "death."  In closing, Juniors, enjoy your time there, Seniors, enjoy time more than the Juniors, there's less of it.  Learn Russian.  It sounds cool. Aloha.

~Lewis G.  CO2k  or bubbleSort();