[2253] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Mar 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Mar 4 01:29:06 1990
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 90 01:28:35 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
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dquah (Danny Quah):
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dschmidt (Dan'l Schmidt):
"Your ground is exceedingly dull and stationary."
- Jenine Abarbanel, having experienced three earthquakes in one day
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern
computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest
and the establishment of a Hilton on its peak.
[coming soon -- "Ozzie Fudd, the RabbitSlayer"!]
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"To go skating with me." She looked into my eyes and asked, "What are
you ready to do for my sake?"
"Anything! Everything!"
"That's lovely. I'll test you! First of all, you must carry out a
task for me."
"Anything," I said.
"I used to be friends with Valya, but then we quarreled. But I still
have one of Valya's books. I don't want to return it myself."
"I understand. Where does Valya live? I'll take the book, cost what
it may!"
"Splendid! Valya lives just below me, on the second floor."
"You're on the third, then," I said quickly. And I realized that it
meant I would see the house where she lived and climb the stairs she
trod every day.
All of this meant a lot to me--so much that I began by climbing to the
seventh floor, then descending to the third, standing for some time
outside the apartment, sighing, and then going down one flight to the
second.
The door was opened by a boy of thirteen or fourteen. I had heard
that good looks don't matter much in a man, but all the same it struck
me at once that he was taller than me and much beter-looking. My mood
darkened but I took myself in hand.
"Is Valya at home? I have to give her a book."
"Not her, but him," said the boy as he held out his hand.
Then it was he who had ben her friend? The darkness turned to black.
"Are you her page?" asked Valya.
Tall, handsome people can ask any questions they like.
(more to follow tomorrow)
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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
* 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 Release Engineering and External Relations Groups, 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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kaggarwa (Kavita Aggarwal):
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rlcarr (Animato):
In the grimy Cambridge air, with a slide rule in my hand.
Got a Coop bill in the mail, my last dollar near at hand.
I'm a long way from home. And I crave vacation so.
But there's not a prayer for me, cuz I've got 3 years to go.
When the weekend comes at last, and I put my books away.
I go off to seek relief in the best of many ways.
I get my hopes all raised, but then she won't go out.
So I'm cooped up in my room, working on a drinking bout.
Up in building 54 (up in building 54), a big final set to roll.
But I'll end up with a 'D', like the draftees that I know.
You can't dodge the draft, like you can a physics class.
Mrs. Luck please pray for me. Save from from the Army brass.
This old 'Tute has got me down. It's no earthly good to me.
But I'm stuck here for eight terms, just as stoned as I can be.
When I finally do get out, Uncle Sam will send me there.
So I'm screwed no matter what, in the grimy Cambridge air.
When I finally do get out, Uncle Sam will send me there.
So I'm screwed no matter what, in the grimy Cambridge air.
-- "In the Grimy Cambridge Air"
1966 Tech Sing
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tom (Tom Coppeto):
Stop, thief!
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