[2465] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat May 26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sat May 26 01:29:05 1990
Date: Sat, 26 May 90 01:28:48 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ambar (Jean Marie Diaz):
Back East, using a blinker to change lanes is practically suicide --
everybody in that lane will be alerted, and they will huddle together
like a herd of buffalo against an encroaching wolf. If you're foolish
enough to signal for a lane change in order to get to your exit on the
freeway, you'll be lucky to hit the next one, three miles down.
The good news about California is that if you signal, they will actually
back off a little to let you in. What courtesy! It also means that
they will warn you when *they* want to cut in front of *you*, enabling
you to prevent them. What suckers! There is definitely every
opportunity for the dedicated East-coast driving gladiator to gain that
critical extra 10 or 11 seconds in the 1-hour commute to work by taking
advantage of other people's politeness. It is a race, after all.
-- John Sweet (sweet@ads.com)
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an
inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have
ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I
haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it.
There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between
prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have
looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice
is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious
mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can't be perfect of course; you
may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you
have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.
- Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
"And if a ten ton truck killed the both of us,
To die by your side, oh the pleasure, the privilege is mine."
-- The Smiths
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
At home even wood tastes good.
- Cryptic Norwegian Proverb
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montreal (It's just Toby):
Hi there!
I'll be at home in Hong Kong from May 26 to the beginning of R/O '90!!!
So, email to me probably won't be seen until then...
BUT
That doesn't mean that you don't email me! Please do!!!
(*Warning for people in Central America* Don't do anything DARING!)
Or, better still, write me REAL mail! :)
This is where I'll be before I have to come back to Kambridge:
152 Nga Tsin Wai Road
5th Floor
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: 3370060
(Int'l Country Code 852)
Anyway, if you chance to travel around Hong Kong, Asia, the Earth, this
Solar System, this galaxy.... give me a call!
Follow these instructions:
1. Pick up your phone
2. Dial "011"
3. Dial "852"
4. Dial "3370060"
5. Say "I wanna speak to Toby!!!"
There you go! :D
Til then, au revoir, whoever you are!
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rlcarr (Animato):
Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end.
Letters I've written,
Never meaning to send.
Beauty I've always missed
With these eyes before.
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore.
Cuz I love you.
Yes, I love you!
Oh, how I love you!
Gazing at people,
Some hand in hand,
Just what I'm going through
They can't understand.
Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend.
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end.
And I love you.
Yes, I love you!
Oh, how I love you!
Oh, how I love you!
Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end.
Letters I've written,
Never meaning to send.
Beauty I've always missed
With these eyes before.
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore.
Cuz I love you.
Yes, I love you!
Oh, how I love you!
Oh, how I love you!
Cuz I love you!
Yes, I love you!
Oh, how I love you!
Oh, how I love you!
THE NIGHT: Nights in White Satin
DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED
The Moody Blues
--- End of Central America ---
