[2238] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Feb 24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Feb 24 02:06:01 1990
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 90 02:05:18 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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ambar (Jean Marie Diaz):
Custom Condoms of Somerville, Mass., is at the San Francisco gift show
introducing "Knight Light", the first condom that glows in the dark. The
consume simply holds the condom up to a light for a few seconds, activating
a bright glow that lasts for 15 minues and an afterglow that lasts for more
than five hours.
-- william.j.fallon
wjf@cbnews.att.com
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amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
TeX is EASY!!!! :-)
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"I can't explain, but it's important!"
Five minutes later, the new girl came up to me.
"Is this place free?"
I looked at her and for an instant lost consciousness; at least, I
quite forgot Vladik and what he'd asked me.
"Can I sit here?" she asked.
"Yes," I whispered. And then, at that lesson, I got my first bad
mark--I got it because I wanted so badly to get a good one, for Lilia
Tarasova to see.
From then on I was always dreaming of doing something splendid in
front of her; or if not splendid, at least something very good, I
wanted to present myself, as they say, in a favorable light.
At last, however, I saw that my only chance for that favorable light
was on the skating rink, because I really do skate well. So I asked
her to come skating.
Lilia was not a bit like the other girls. Her schoolbag was a soft
yellow, with a gold-colored lock. Her schoolbooks and exercise books
were bound in patterned pink paper and didn't have a single blot or
any kind of mark. Her fountain pen was miniature, her pencil had an
orange erase on the end and her notebook was elegant, with a calendar
on the cover. As for her eyes . . . I've no words to describe them.
Lilia looked in that notebook with the calendar.
"The twenty-eighth of February; that's a Saturday. Good! We'll go
skating on Sunday, the twenty-ninth."
"Why such a long time off?"
"To give you time to earn the right!"
"What right?"
"To go skating with me." She looked into my eyes and asked, "What are
you ready to do for my sake?"
(more to follow tomorrow)
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TOP 10 NAMES FOR A REUNITED GERMANY
10. Keggerland
9. Just Plain Volks
8. Siegfried & Roy
7. Aryan Acres
6. Argentina East
5. The Love Shack
4. Nazichusetts
3. Switzerland's Bad-Ass Neighbor
2. Home of Das Whopper
1. Cindy
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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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
Longhair--short brains.
- Suggestive Montenegrin Proverb
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mjsamp (Michael J Sampson):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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ppwang (Paul Wang):
office address: local address: home address:
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ne43-521c 219 holland st. 2118 n. salisbury st.
545 technology square somerville, ma 02144 w. lafayette, in 47906
cambridge, ma 02139 (617) 666-5688 (317) 463-1017
(617) 253-5983
email address: wang@lcs.mit.edu
"at jocko's rocket ship, and the one eyed jack
my sin, and the lucky star
a steady place, to study and drink..."
-- x
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rlcarr (Rich Carreiro):
OK, so I'm sick, sick, sick. But I plead being at MIT for 4.5 years, with
a sentence of 4+ to go.
:-) 8-) :-)
[piano intro]
[animated scrabble blocks]
Every day when the work is behind you
And the shop and the store put the lock on the door.
Just get away where your worries won't find you
If you like well, I'll tell you more.
Don't let the day get the better of you
When the evening comes there's so much to do.
You'd better put on your vest and wear a smile
Just come along with me a while.
Cuz I tell you:
I know a place where the music is fine
And the lights are always low.
I know a place where we can go.
[still normal]
At the door there's a man who will greet you
Then you go downstairs to some tables and chairs
Soon, I'm sure you'll be tapping your feet
Because the beat is the greatest there. [starts to get weird here]
All around there are girls and boys,
It's a swinging place, a cellar full of noise
It's got an atmosphere of its own somehow
You gotta come along right now,
Cuz I tell you: [completely losing it now]
I know a place where the music is fine
And the lights are always low.
I know a place where we can go. ["Hollywood's Animato Lives"]
[musical interlude]
[Jittlov gliding around, then zapping into the air and
re-appearing on an overpass and zapping into the air again]
[UFO's and god knows what]
Well, all around there are girls and boys,
It's a swinging place, a cellar full of noise
It's got an atmosphere of its own somehow
You gotta come along right now,
Cuz I tell you:
I know a place where the music is fine
And the lights are always low. [rainbow colored "Animato"]
I know a place where we can go.
[moon and "Jittlov" topped skyscraper]
I know a place where we can go.
I know a place where the lights are low.
You're gonna love this place I know.
I know a place where we can go.
I know a place where the lights are low.
You're gonna love this place I know.
(Gee, and what could this song be, I wonder? :-)
"I Know a Place"
-- Petula Clark
made famous by _Animato_ :-) :-) :-)
(or to our generation, anyway :-)
[courtesy of mar@athena]
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