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New quotes for Mon Jan 15
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 15 01:35:21 1990
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 90 01:35:41 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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brlewis (Bruce R Lewis):
A friend arranges to visit me. On his way to my campus apartment, a
campus policeman stops him and demands to see his ID. When he cannot
produce MIT identification, the policeman demands to know where he is
going and follows him one quarter of a mile to my building. None of
my white off-campus friends have ever been stopped.
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celine (Who Drugged Thumper?):
"You doubted Me," God tells the Lawgiver [Moses], "But I forgave
you that doubt. You doubted your own self and failed to believe
in your own powers as a leader, and I forgave you that also. But
you lost faith in these people and doubted the divine possibilities
of Human Nature. THIS loss of faith makes it impossible for
you to enter the Promised Land."
- The Midrash
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
Ah me I'm hopeless, born a joker never change
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"Please note the following information on some of the articles which
may not be taken and out of the German Democratic Republic:
ENTRY:
- Firearms, fixed ammunition, guns (including air rifles, starting
guns, gas pistols, gas sprays, and harpoons), cartridges, explosives,
pyrotechnical products, cutting and stabbing weapons, and imitations
of firearms and muzzle-loaders, unless a permit has been obtained in
an individual case;
- Addictive drugs, narcotics, and other poisons;
- Radio and transmitting equipment including spare parts and
accessories (except for radio and transmitting equipment whose import
has been permitted by the competent authorities of the GDR or is
permitted on entry);
- Television sets including spare parts and accessories. Video tape
systems and an adequate number of video tapes may be temporarily
imported as travel requisites in accordance with the duration and
purpose of the trip;
- Literature and other printed matter whose content is directed
against the preservation of peace, is of a fascist, revanchist or
pornographic character, or contradicts in another way the interest of
the GDR and its citizens;
- Used articles intended as gifts (except for used textile goods and
shoes, provided that they have been washed or cleaned after the last
use);
- Drugs (except for those required personally during the trip);
- Sound carriers, information and data carriers other than visual ones
(except for records, magnetic tapes, and tape cassettes);
- Stamps, uncurrent tender, and coins.
EXIT
- Meat and meat products of any kind;
- Underwear of any kind, textile and leather work clothes, shoes,
hosiery of any kind;
- Children's and baby wear made of materials of any kind and baby
wool, baby blankets, nappies, swanskin nappy liners, swaddling
clothes, pram blankets and pram sets;
- Synthetic curtains and curtaining, bed-clothes and linen, towels,
tea towels, and tableclothes (sp);
- Sound carriers, data and information carriers other than visual ones
(except for records, magnetic tapes, and tape cassettes);
- Objects d'art, archives and other articles whose export is
prohibited pursuant to the Regulations of the Protections of the Art
Posessions of the German Democratic Republic and the Posessions of
Scientific Documents and Materials, antiques and second-hand books
unless a special permit has been obtained;
- Stamps, uncurrent tender and coins (except for stamps of little
value which are exported in small quantities as souvenirs);
- Precious metals, precious and semi-precious stones and pearls and
products made there of (sp).
My personal observations:
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Compact disks are not permitted, but assault rifles are not mentioned.
Go figure :)
Plans for this month:
* organising the PANSS tape (and thinking about off-site support)
* finding and retaining a man who can pass the "breakfast" test
* workable solutions for qa problems with respect to courseware
and other materials developed by non-athena personnel
D shoveling out my apartment
D release notes for 6.4A
* considering moving the rest of my furniture (and books,
and tapes, etc.) back into my apartment.
legend: * = "in progress"
+ = "in 'bureaucratic-wait' state"
! = "a future problem"
D = "done"
Planned absences:
X Conference; Cambridge Center Marriott (??)
16-18 January 1990
Usenix, Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC
22-26 January 1990
BOS-WAS Sun, 21 January 1990
EA 609 Depart 2000 Arrive 2140
WAS-BOS Sun, 28 January 1990
EA 792 Depart 1920 Arrive 2047
Null Foundation Hospitality Suite, Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC
25 January 1990; Suite TBA
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>off-campus readers will want to know that you'll find me here usually
>... when i'm not travelling to somewhere exotic, i'm a member of MIT's
>Project Athena Systems Development Group, where i handle a potpourri of
>systems development related tasks, including quality assurance,
>software export issues, etc. ... other details: i'm an alumnus of
>syracuse university, purdue university, and theta chi fraternity at
>those universities ... i like to travel often, and hate answering the
>phone.
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