[2313] in Central_America
New quotes for Tue Mar 27
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 27 01:29:00 1990
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 90 01:28:39 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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cordelia (Reality Check I GM):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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epeisach (Ezra Peisach):
Just finished my taxes last night.
Good news: The Feds owe me 417
Bad news: I owe Mass. State 405.
I guess there's a 9 dollar profit in here...
Ezra
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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 Systems & Operations 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 and purdue university
> ... i like to travel often, and hate answering the phone.
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Satan comes down to visit a famous, utterly ruthless Hollywood producer.
Satan says, "Look, I have a business proposition for you. I can get you
any deal you want, with anybody in the business, on any terms you like."
The producer's eyes light up. "Hmm. . . and what do you want from me?"
Satan smiles. "Your immortal soul."
The producer sits back and ponders, stroking his goatee. "I don't get it.
Where's the catch?"
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paul (Paul Boutin):
"No guts, no glory."
- Drexel Burnham Lambert coffee cup slogan
(you can buy one at their bankruptcy
sale, cash only)
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singer (Andrew C Singer):
Predicting the stock market??
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