[2307] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Mar 25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Mar 25 01:29:57 1990
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 90 01:29:27 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been
avoiding the beach.
- Lucinda Childs (Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach)
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dpeisach (Daniel Peisach):
Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
When you turn around to look it's gone behind you. On it's face it's
wearing your confused expression where your eyes don't go.
Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering. It's a nightmare
that you'll never be discovering.
You're free to come and go, or talk like Kurtis Blow, but there's a pair
of eyes in back of your head.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the
part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of.
Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you or it worse
because it's always waiting where your eyes don't go?
Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering. It's a nightmare
that you'll never be discovering.
You're free to come and go, or talk like Kurtis Blow, but there's a pair
of eyes in back of your head.
Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
When you turn around to look it's gone behind you. On it's face it's
wearing your confused expression where your eyes don't go.
Where Your Eyes Don't Go
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln Album
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henry (Henry Mensch):
One day when she came down the stairs, Lilia said to us, "Don't you
think there should only be one of you here in the entry?"
"Who!?" we asked.
"That you must decide in honorable combat, as men do."
Vladik rushed up and punched me in the nose.
In an instant, Lilia flew up to the second floor, crying, "Valya!
Come and part them! They're killing each other!"
Valya descended unhurriedly and saw my nose.
"There you are, Lilia, blood spilt because of you!" He as looking at
her with a mingling of respect and something serious.
My handkerchief was soaked with blood, but I didn't notice either the
blood or the pain, because all this happened on Saturday, the
twenty-eighth of February.
In the evening, I rang Lilia up.
"Today's the twenty-eighth, so tomorrow's the twenty-ninth, adn we're
going skating."
"You're mistaken," Lilia said. "Tomorrow's the first of March!"
I'd forgotten -- clean forgotten -- that because it wasn't a leap
year, there was no twenty-ninth of February.
"I forgot, too," said Lilia. And laughed.
"Waht does it matter? All the same, it's Sunday tomorrow," I said.
"Twenty-ninth of February or first of March -- what's the difference?"
"A very big one," said Lilia. "The first march I'm not free. I've
promised to go skating."
"With whom?"
She just laughed. But I couldn't give her a laugh in return.
The next morning, I hid around the corner from Lilia's house and
waited. It was very cold out, but I felt hot. She came out with
Valya from the second floor.
I thought as much. He was carrying two pairs of skates, hers and his.
He was looking at her as he had the previous day: a mingling of
respect and something else. And she was smiling.
I realized then that you must love only someone worthy of being loved.
I understood it very clearly. But it didn't make me feel any better.
I went to see Yuri, the geology student.
"You told me that if at any time things got terribly difficult . . ."
"Still the same problem?"
"Yes," I said, looking down at my shoes.
"Drop it, silly boy. It's ridiculous to even think about at your age.
Trust me--it isn't serious."
But it was. So serious that the next day I got another very bad mark,
and it wasn't taht I hadn't done my homework; it was because I simply
couldn't think about anything else -- even at my age.
-- by Anatoly Alexin, translated by Eve Manning
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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
* 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," in proposal stage
D = "done"
Planned absences:
Trusted Systems Interoperability Group; Marlboro, MA: 3-5 April
North Carolina State University; "early" April
Bay Area: late April, early May
Usenix; Anaheim, CA: ???
--
>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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liu9yong (Ji Wu):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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tron (Andrew H Cytron):
From the letter of introduction to SM:
The next class of problems are things that you don't like, or things that you
would like to be able to do. Incomprehensible manuals come under this heading
too. Please send them to us as well, and be as specific as possible. Please
don't just say `the manual was awful' or or `Reading the manual was like my
first exposure to James Joyce', but rather, `I found the manual hard
to get into. More explanation of how to manipulate files of macros would
have been useful, and more examples', or `I took 3 weeks to find how to
draw logarithmic axes'.
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