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New quotes for Wed Jan 17
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 17 01:35:42 1990
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 01:36:06 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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alchen (Alice L Chen):
Right now, I can't think of anything to put in my .plan, so I guess this will just be a temporary .plan until I think of something. However, knowing me, this will probably end up being my real .plan!!! Anyway, here goes:
Hello! My name is Alice Chen, and I'm a very confused freshman at MIT. You can get in touch with my state of confusion by emailing me at alchen@athena.mit.edu. Even better, send me real mail! I LOVE real mail [hint hint]! My address and phone number at MIT is:
Alice Chen
McCormick Hall, Room 227
320 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 225-9108
If you want to, you can reach me at my home address during the summer:
3875 South 500 West
South Whitley, IN 46787
(219) 723-4766
Please ignore the following for now... I'm in the process of adding stuff to my .plan, and it's a tad messy now :(
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THE SWING OF THINGS
They say the world's an eventful place
You give me news
I don't want to know
You say that I should care
that I should speak my mind
Oh, but how can I speak of the world
rushing by
With a lump in my throat
and tears in my eyes
Have we come to the point of no turning back
or is it still time to get into
the swing of things
Let us walk through this windless city
I'll go on till the winter gets me\
"Sleep ..." you wrote "sleep my dear"
in a letter somewhere
Oh, but how can I sleep with your voice in my head
and an ocean between us
and room in my bed
Have I come to the point where i'm losing my grip
or is it still time to get into
the swing of things
When she glows in the dark
and I'm weak by the sight
of this breathtaking beauty
in which i can hide
There is a worldful out there
of people i fear
but given time i'll get into
the swing of things
Yes, when she glows in the dark and i'm struck by the sight
I know that i'll need this for the rest of my life
What have i done
What lies i have told
I've played games with the ones that rescued my soul
Have i come to the point where i'm losing the grip
or is it still time to get into
the swing of things
--- a-ha
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BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGE
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HALLOWED GROUND
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alin (Alin L D'Silva):
Alin L. D'Silva
Undergraduate Student
Email : alin@athena.mit.edu
alin%kelvin.dnet@rieman.mit.edu
s20086@mitvma.mit.edu
The best e-mail address to get me at is the first one.
Long live gnu!
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celine (Who Drugged Thumper?):
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well the horned head:
We poor lads, 'tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time.
Moping, melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad."
-- A. E. Housman
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cwren (Christopher R Wren):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
My baby was talking in her sleep
She said "Bob"
I said "What"
She said "Bob"
I said "I'm Bob"
She said "No, I mean a different Bob"
So I asked her the next day
I said "Jane"
She said "What"
I said "Who's Bob?"
She said "You're Bob"
I said "No, I mean a different Bob"
My baby was run over by a car
It was a Dodge
As she lay dying
She called for Bob
I took her hand and said "I'm here"
She said "No, I mean a different Bob"
"A Different Bob" - Colorblind James Experience
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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; Boston Copley Place 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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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never
understands anything."
-- "The House at Pooh Corner",
A. A. Milne
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an
elephant on his nose.
-Malay Proverb
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nle (Nhan Le):
Name: Nhan Vu Le
Electronic Address: nle@athena.mit.edu
Mailing Address:
Ashdown House, Rm 410A
305 Memorial Dr.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617)225-9774
Educational Goal:
S.M. in EECS.
Ph.D. in Medical Engineering/Medical Physics (Harvard-MIT Division
of Health Sciences and Technology (HST))
Career Goal:
1st choice: Zen Master
2nd choice: Buddhist Philosophy Scholar
3rd choice: Doctor
4th choice: ?Biomedical Engineer ???
State of being:
Very, very happy and at peace with myself (thanks to zen meditation).
Career Status:
Trying very hard to complete my S.M. Thesis. Studying for an
Oral Qualifying Exam coming up in a few weeks. Looking toward getting an
M.D.
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rosencra (John Buck):
"But if half of your love
Is all I can win,
Then give me just a fraction
But no more medicine."
- "Poisoned Rose," Elvis Costello, _King of America_
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