[2342] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri Apr 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 6 01:34:36 1990
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 01:33:51 EDT
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
Schedule for the next two weeks:
Fri 6 Apr -- leave for NY, 2pm flight
Wed 11 Apr -- return to MIT, arr. on campus 10pm
Fri 13 Apr -- leave for NY, 2pm flight
Tue 17 Apr -- return to MIT, arr. on campus 10pm
What this means is that if you want anything from me in the next two
weeks, you probably lose.
Oh, btw, Wednesday will be the first day of the Omer. :-)
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brlewis (Bruce R Lewis):
Sort your zephyrgrams into different X_geometries!
It's twice the fun and challenge of xfish!
Dot
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
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csmith (Carol J Smith):
Trying not to get too used to my newest toy: a Real World income.
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donut (Jeff Parker):
"My family is just a little weird
Daddy wears a dress and Mommy grows a beard
The neighbors they complain all the time
Grandmom's hooked on barbs and wine."
Millions of Dead Cops
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
I'm moving in... Parlmont Apartments, at one of the intersections of 3A and 129
in Billerica (where 129 is called Floyd Street.) 2 bedrooms, nice big place...
Deposit goes down tomorrow, I'll try to post the address this weekend.
PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hooch (Conrad G Yoder):
To enjoy not having to rescue my 6.170 grade parce que c'est l'histoire.
Also. . .
This Spring - Singing Brahm's Requiem and in "Bye Bye Birdie"
This Summer - At home (hopefully) by 19 May (NO FINALS!). (614)545-6796
This Fall - In Budapest, Hungary and other random European cities!
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Article 2314 of alt.folklore.computers:
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From: jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Gardiner Myers)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Fwd: Warhead maims innocent Ethernet! Details at 11
Message-ID: <8a0FsuC00VcJ0=gtAJ@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 17:11:22 GMT
References: <19900315202010.5.FONER@CARDINAL.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 20:49 EST
From: Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
To: unix-haters@ai.ai.mit.edu
Subject: [drewry@decwrl.dec.com: what to do with a PDP-11/73]
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 16:50:22 -0800
From: drewry@decwrl.dec.com (Raymond Drewry)
From: Michel Jackson <jackson@shs.ohio-state.edu>
From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: osu.hacks
Subject: How do you measure nuclear warhead yield?
This is something I learned at the USENIX Conference in January that
I've been meaning to post here, but have managed to forget about until
now.
While chatting with some network acquaintances at the hotel bar (all
the important discussion occurs at the bar, of course, preferably well
past midnight), a friend who does sysadmin work at Los Alamos National
Labs told us a marvelously funny story about how the fun folks at LANL
measure yield from nuclear detonations. After all, they have to
experiment, I guess, and one has to learn how much bang-for-the-Mbuck
one is getting.
The solution at LANL (note that this is now an 8-week-old memory,
details may be somewhat inaccurate):
Find a Qbus-based PDP-11 (e.g., 11/73) "which you no longer love."
Install a DEQNA ethernet controller card in the backplane. Park the
box at/near/over the hole. Connect a cable to the DEQNA and drop it
down into the hole.
DEQNAs have a TDR (time domain reflectometer) built right into the
controller. TDR is useful for finding cable shorts and, in general,
learning the length of one's ethernet cable.
Before detonation, begin having the PDP-11 repeatedly exercise the
DEQNA's TDR, recording and transmitting the length determined to some
other (presumably distant :-) site.
Detonate. As the beastie blows things to smithereens all around
itself, the cable will be rapidly eaten away. TDR readings from the
DEQNA will show a drastically reducing cable length. The speed with
which the cable, ah, degenerates will correlate very closely with
warhead yield.
Just think, your tax dollars at work, ridding the world of PDP-11s...
--karl
PS- No, I'm not kidding. Not a word of it.
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
"Bring your adjectives down to Lolly's and we'll install our 'ly'
attachment and make them adverbs!"
-approximate quote from "Lolly's,Lolly's,Lolly's", Schoolhouse Rock
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
Living people often meet.
- Observant Tamashek Proverb
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sli (Sheung L Li):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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wchuang (Mithrandir):
The newly elected priest was a very nervous fellow. In fact, he was
so nervous that he could hardly speak at his first mass one Sunday
morning. Before his second appearance in the pulpit he decided to ask
his faithful and down-to-Earth Monsignor how he could be relaxed. The
Monsignor said, "During your next sermon it may help if you put some
Vodka in the water pitcher in the pulpit. After that things should go
just fine."
So for the next mass the priest did just that. And if I might say, he
was able to talk up quite a storm! He felt like he was on top of the
world. However, upon returning to his sanctuary found an anonymous
note on his door.
It listed the following:
@begin(verbatim)
1) Next time SIP rather than GULP!
2) There are 10 Commandments, not 12.
3) There are 12 Disciples, not 10.
4) We do not refer to the Cross as the "BIG T".
5) The recommended grace before Meals AND Communion
is NOT "RUB-A-DUB-DUB, THANX FOR THE GRUB, YEAH GOD!".
6) Do not refer to our Saviour, Jesus Christ and his Apostles
as "J.C. AND THE BOYS".
7) David slew Goliath: He did not kick the sh*t out of him.
8) The Father, Son and The Holy Ghost are NEVER referred to as,
"BIG DADDY, JUNIOR, AND THE SPOOK".
9) It is ALWAYS the virgin Mary, NEVER Mary with the .......
10) Lastly, next Wednesday there will be a Taffy Pulling at ST.
Peter's, not a Peter-pulling at ST. Taffy's!
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Once upon a time, there was a woman working at a lingerie counter, and
a customer came to the counter with a pair of frilly panties and said
she'd like to buy them, adding "but only of you can embroider `If you
can read this, you're too close.' on the back."
So, the saleswoman took the panties to the tailor in back, and
described the rather unusual request.
The tailor said "Well, she sounds like a stick in the mud, but I can
do that. Does she want block letters or script?"
Since the saleswoman didn't know, she went back around to the counter,
and asked, "Do you want that in block letters or script?"
The customer replied, with a smile, "Braille."
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The anatomy professor says, "Now, class, I've a few questions for ya
about the homewerrk.
Miss MacGregor! Stand please." [She stands.]
"What organ expands to ten times its normal size when excited?"
Miss MacGregor flushes and fidgets. Finally the professor tells her to
be seated. "Mister Campbell: stand please and answer the same
question."
"It's the pupil of the eye, sir."
"Very good, Mister Campbell. Miss MacGregor, I have three things to
say to you.
First, ya haven't done yerr homewerrk.
Second, ya have a derrty mind.
Third, yerr in for a *big* disappointment."
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Tourist guide at zoo: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the elephant, the
largest animal to roam the lands. Every day the elephant eats 3 dozen
bunches of bananas, 6 tons of hay, and 2000 pounds of assorted fruits.
Madam, please don't stand near the elephant's backside.... Madam,
PLEASE don't stand near the elephant's backside ... MADAM ... MADAM!
... too late; George, dig her out.
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whycare (April Fool):
Latuere: ergo latissime vivere.
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wmh (William Y. Huang):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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