[2043] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Dec 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 10 01:47:19 1989
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 89 01:49:04 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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axeface (Paul E Orr):
The last train is nearly due,
the underground is closing soon,
And in the dark, deserted station,
restless in anticipation,
A man waits in the shadows.
His restless eyes neatly scratching
all that they can touch are catching,
hidden deep within the pocket,
safe within its silent socket
he holds a colored crayon.
Now from the tunnel's stony womb
the carraige rides to meet the groom,
and opens wide and welcome doors,
but he hesitates, then withdraws
deeper in the shadows.
and the train is gone, suddenly
on wheels clicking silently
a gently tapping litany;
and he holds his crayon rosary
tighter in his hand.
Now from from his pocket quick he snatches
the crayon on the wall he slashes
deep upon the advertising
a single word a poem comprising;
four letters.
And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding
The poem's across the track resounding
Shadows by the exit light,
And his legs take pure and sleepless flight
To seek the breast of darkness, and be suckled by the night.
"Poem on the Underground Wall"
-Simon and Garfunkel
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dbwilson (David B Wilson):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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jfc (John F Carr):
SHEIN'S LAW OF COMPUTER PERFORMANCE:
The speed of a computer is measured from the time
at which a question is asked to the time at which
the question is answered. All other performance
benchmarks are lies.
There's something strange about an OS where "-DSYSV -DBSD" is the right
set of defines to use.
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Skiing! Yay!
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montreal (Toby):
TOBY OR NOT TOBY: THAT IS THE QUESTION.
"Teach us to bear the yoke in youth
With steadfastness and careful truth;
That in our time thy grace may give
The truth whereby the nations live."
Er, what's the good of being grown up if you can't be childish?
-- Toby Kwan ---------------------------------------------- DBS '88 MIT '93 --
---------------------------------------------------- montreal@athena.mit.edu --
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reuven (Reuven M. Lerner):
Checkers, anyone?
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sethf (Seth Finkelstein):
Looking for a new way to waste time at the end of the term?
Nethack3 has now been ported to the MIT environment!
No more hassle with links, no more painful contortions to run!!
To play, just do
attach games
/mit/games/vaxbin/nethack
It only works on VAX-type machines.
Saved games go into your home directory, be careful if near quota.
Send bugs to nethack-bugs@linc.cis.upenn.edu
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