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New quotes for Mon Mar 12
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 12 01:31:53 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 01:31:15 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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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
To bestow personal enlightenment on those who finger me...
(Or at least to relieve their boredom...)
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
---Rudyard Kipling
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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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"Expressing the will of the people, the Supreme Soviet of the
Lithuanian Republic declares and solemnly proclaims the restoration of
the exercise of sovereign powers of the Lithuanian state, which were
annulled by an alien power in 1940. From now on, Lithuania is once
again an independent state."
-- Resolution approved by the Lithuanian Parliament.
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:
North Carolina State University; last week in March.
--
>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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montreal (It's just Toby):
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the
life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are
enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
-- Joseph Campbell --
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rmbandy (Reba M Bandyopadhyay):
Hello, I'm Reba. Yes, I'm female, unlike most net users who are probably the only ones who will ever read this info. And I like forumnet better than frat parties. I like to meet people by talking to them, not by standing around in large groups of people surrounded by alcohol and loud music. Getting drunk isn't my way of meeting people. So the net's great, cause all you can do is talk.
Well, this is an info file. So, what do you want to know? I guess lists might help.
I LIKE: (Not in any particular order)
1. Science fiction. Especially "Doctor Who", "Blake's 7", "Star Trek", and any and all literature I can get my hands on.
2. Broadway musicals. Especially "The Phantom of the Opera". The Phantom is about the most beautiful and attractive character I've ever seen. If anyone who reads this has anything with or about the Phantom or Michael Crawford on vidoetape, photos, or otherwise, please tell me! I collect Phantom stuff!
3. Astronomy. That's what I'm going to do for a living, if it's possible to make a living doing that. =)
4. Billy Joel. He's the best. I got his autograph and a letter from him when I gave him a portrait I did of him at his Storm Tour concert here in MA. Unbefuckinlievable. There's no performer more responsive to his fans.
5. The Beatles. Who doesn't?
6. Coca-cola. My one serious substance addiction. Everyone has a vice.
7. Movies. Can't get enough of them. Besides sf movies and the Indy series, some of my favorites are "Heathers", "Dead Poets Society", "Dangerous Liasons", "Casablanca", "Amadeus", "Young Sherlock Holmes",....the list goes on.
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solo26 (Keith M Swartz):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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tron (Andrew H Cytron):
A bit late, but....
BE HAPPY IT'S ADAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND WHAT NICE WEATHER TOO.
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whycare (April Fool):
FRIENDSHIP:
Neither the wave nor the hug but the unseen hand melting the gelid heart.
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