[2243] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Feb 28
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 28 02:01:19 1990
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 02:00:49 EST
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celine (Who Drugged Thumper?):
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are
built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.
Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then
it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems
to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.
- C. S. Lewis
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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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rlcarr (Rich Carreiro):
A digitization of Jittlov's _Speed_ poster is
/mit/rlcarr/Xpix/speed.dmp.Z
For those with Amigae, the IFF file that the dump was created from is
/mit/rlcarr/Xpix/speed.iff
As it is 127K, I doubt it will be there long, though. It looks definitely
better than the X dump.
I believe I have made the directory and files properly world-readable.
The picture was digitized using the Amiga in the SIPB office, then the
resulting IFF file was uploaded to my Athena account and converted into
an Xwindow dump using a program written by Will Menninger (willus@athena
or menninger@nerus.pfc.mit.edu). His program is accessible from
/mit/amiga/lib/graphics/image.zoo and contains VAX and RT executeables
(no source). I think it can convert both ways, but I am not sure.
It can also do filtering, though I'm not quite sure how - send him
mail.
And now for something completely different...
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Subject: Scarf Pattern
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 86 11:44:18 -0500
From: drwho@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Dear Richard,
Here it is.
--Jon Monsarrat, drwho@speaker
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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 86 11:30:59 -0500
From: Laura E. Baldwin <boojum@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Here is the official BBC pattern: USe no.9 american needles, and start by
chaining 60 stitches. Always slip the first stitch of each row. Make rows in
the following order:
8 purple 8 mustard 12 grey
52 camel 18 rust 8 mustard
16 bronze 8 purple 20 bronze
10 mustard 38 bronze 10 purple
22 rust 10 camel 12 camel
8 purple 8 grey 32 grey
20 green 40 rust 10 rust
8 mustard 14 mustard 16 mustard
28 camel 20 green
14 rust 8 purple
8 bronze 42 camel
10 purple 12 bronze
42 green (where I am right now) 20 grey
8 mustard 8 rust
16 grey 12 purple
8 rust 6 camel
54 camel 14 mustard
10 purple 54 green
12 green 16 rust
how much you'll need: 6oz wool of camel, 4 oz of "greenish brown" (try to get
almost an amalgam of the two colors, 4 oz of rust, 4 oz of bronze, 3 oz each of
purple, grey and mustard.
afterwards: make 7 tassels of each end, each made up of 1 foot starnds of each
of the 7 colors.
[Rich again]
And yes, I do have a scarf made to these specs, hand-knitted by Mom and
Sis for some Christmas past. Actually, this file is the oldest thing
in my account.
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