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New quotes for Sun Feb 18
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 18 01:53:44 1990
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 90 01:53:07 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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celine (Who Drugged Thumper?):
Issawi's Laws of Progress:
The Course of Progress:
Most things get steadily worse.
The Path of Progress:
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
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henry (Henry Mensch):
They say that love ennobles, but from the day I fell in love, I was
constantly lying to somebody. I didn't do it on purpose; it was just
that people kept asking me the questions which I couldn't answer
truthfully.
"Why do you spend so much time over your hair? Why do you change your
shirt every day?"
"There's a sanitary commission going around school."
"What are you thinking of all the time? You don't seem to notice
anything. And what's that sigh for?"
"My marks. I've gotten some bad marks lately."
"How's that? You didn't get them before!"
"That's what I"m thinking about."
But really, I was thinking about Lilia Tarasova. She had recently
transferred from another school.
Durin the main break, Vladik Babkin came over to me.
"Oh, yes, by the way," he said very casually, indifferently, "have you
seen the new girl?"
"What new girl?"
"The one who's just come. One of the seats at your table's empty. If
she wants to sit there, say it's already taken ... all right? And
send her to me. There's a seat by me that's empty, too. Okay?"
"But why?"
"I can't explain, but it's important!"
Five minutes later, the new girl came up to me.
"Is this place free?"
(more will follow tomorrow...)
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"Two guys, one cart, fresh pasta... *you* figure it out."
The three-step plan for German reunification:
1. East and West Germany will meet on economic issues.
2. German foreign ministers will meet with other foreign
ministers of the world.
3. France surrenders.
--David Letterman
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
* shoveling out my apartment
* considering moving the rest of my furniture (and books,
and tapes, etc.) back into my apartment.
! release 7.0
! treatment of athena network services as layers upon vendor os.
legend: * = "in progress"
+ = "in 'bureaucratic-wait' state"
! = "a future problem"
D = "done"
Planned absences:
None for February.
--
>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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jcrb (Jon C Bennett):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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rlcarr (Rich Carreiro):
"There's a Wizard of Speed and Time, stepping out at the Hollywood sign..."
"Not many people believe I'm real."
"I'm LATE!!"
"May a leprechaun dance in yer eggnog."
"I can help you find your dreams."
"What we need is some GREEN power."
"When you go around my neighborhood in a green dress, you learn to RUN."
"We're here to cheer the Wizard, the Wizard of Hollywood."
take a wild guess as to the source.... :-)
And for those who can't read fast enough (it's in the movie):
(and to save you a trip to the LA phonebook....)
Mike Jittlov
902 Maltman Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) MOJANOX
Thank you LSC for the lecture and the movies!
And thank you Mr. Jittlov for showing the Wizard short, which I have now
FINALLY seen after 4.5 years at MIT (so it's a good thing I went here as
a grad student :-)
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
Can you touch people in other ways other than movies?
It's the safest way....
Wizard of Speed and Time
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