[2475] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon Jun 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Mon Jun 4 01:27:05 1990
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 01:26:26 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ambar (Jean Marie Diaz):
It's a one time thing
It just happens
a lot
Walk with me
And we will see
what we have got
ah...
My footsteps are ticking
Like water dripping from a tree
Walking a hairline
And stepping very carefully
ah...
My heart is broken
It is worn out at the kneees
Hearing muffled
Seeing blind
Soon it will hit the Deep Freeze
And something is cracking
I don't know where
Ice on the sidewalk
Brittle branches in the air
The sun
is blinding
Dizzy golden, dancing green
Through the park in the afternoon
Wondering where the hell
I have been
ah...
"Cracking"
_Suzanne Vega_
Suzanne Vega
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
You or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were
you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare
yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the
company.
-- J. Wellington Wells
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dresnick (David I Resnick):
Office: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech Home: Tang Hall
E25-242 550 Memorial Drive #14E3
Cambridge, MA 02139 Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-88021 (617) 225-2784
E-mail: dresnick@athena.mit.edu
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
The outpatients are out in force tonight, I see...
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not user readable.}
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Ever get the feeling that there's absolutely nothing you can do to
change your life? Plans are worthless, projects never get finished,
and your life just continues on, taking no notice of you? Ever feel
helpless against the rush of time, watching your life go speeding past
you? Why bother to make plans, why bother to start projects, why
bother to dream dreams? You have no control in life, so why bother
trying to control your life?
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
To stay very far away from Killian Court today.
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krishna (Krishna `Shamu' Sethuraman):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
The FIRST rehearsal for SUMMER BAND
is on TUESDAY, JUNE 19 7-9pm
in AIR CONDITIONED Kresge!!!
Join us for lots o' fun and great tunes!!
Concerts: July 4 at Faneuil Hall 1-3pm
(July 28 XOR August 4) 8-10pm Kresge
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mars (Anita):
Alias: Anita
Course: 16
Status: Ready for adventure
Goals: 1. New York City, March 23, 1991.
2. Cambridge, April 5, 1991.
3. Run the Boston Marathon.
4. Run the L.A. Marathon.
5. Stretch my break point to a C.
6. Get Krishna to stop pouting.
Quote: "It's a beautiful night,
Don't waste it on the moon."
Locale: 2546 S. Bolar Ave.
Hacienda Heights, CA 91745
(818) 369-4382
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rsargent (Randy Sargent):
'I don't know, it almost made MIT seem homey, for a while...'
-Steve Swann
All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot;
Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous, All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous, The Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet, Each beastly little squid.
Who made the spikey urchin? Who made the sharks? He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous, All pox both great and small.
Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all.
-- Monty Python's Flying Circus
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
"Do It Yourself"
by Bill Sutton
I went to buy computers and they said, "A million bucks
"For a brand-new mainframe IBM!" Now that price really sucks!
So I looked at all the pictures and I chose to build my own
For you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home!
[chorus]
IBM, DEC, and Honeywell, HP, DG, and Wang,
Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything!
They make big bucks for systems so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home!
Now take the CPU you see, it's only just a box
With blinking lights and whirring fans and lots of cable slots.
I spent an evening working with some wire and bulbs and pins
Then I took it to my basement and I plugged the freezer in!
[chorus]
Next I needed tape drives, well, my tape drives were a steal.
I climbed into the attic for my dad's old reel-to-reel.
Some cable and some binder twine and soon it was complete--
My CPU and tape drive at a price no one can beat!
[chorus]
So then I looked for disc drives but it didn't take me long.
"Function follows form" they say--or have I got that wrong?
I found a drive with five new modes that blows them all away--
Cottons, linens, wash-n-wear, rinse and lingerie!
[chorus]
I had to have a console just to make my system run.
Without a fancy console then my system wasn't done.
So I tied a ten buck typer to a broken TV tube
And now I've got a console that can write the evening news!
[chorus]
I've had my system running, I'll admit it's not the best.
The data isn't right and the response time is a mess.
It crashes every hour and it isn't worth a damn--
But I'm satisfied because it runs just like an IBM!!
[chorus]
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