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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Aug 15 01:23:05 1990
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 90 01:22:36 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
Schroedinger's cat's a mystery cat, he illustrates the laws;
The complicated things he does have no apparent cause.
He baffles the determinist, and drives him to despair,
For when they try to pin him down, //the quantum cat's not there!//
Schroedinger's cat's a mystery cat, he's given to random decisions;
His mass is slightly altered by a cloud of virtual kittens.
The vacuum fluctuations print his traces in the air,
But if you try to find him, //the quantum cat's not there!//
Schroedinger's cat's a mystery cat, he's very small and light,
And if you try to pen him in, he tunnels out of sight.
So when the cruel scientist confined him in a box
With poison-capsules, triggered by bizzare atomic clocks,
He wasn't alive, he wasn't dead, or half of each: I swear
That when they fixed his eigenstate, //he simply wasn't there!//
- John Lowell
Old Possum's Book of Quantum Vivisection
Physics Today, April 1989
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caw (Catherine A Womack):
home address: 23 William St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Home phone: 868-9062
electronic mail address: caw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I am also reachable at caw@COGITO.MIT.EDU, but do not send mail there.
"One day I put a slice of white bread in the toaster, and it came out wheat."
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debbo (Deborah A Birnby):
i'd rewrite the book of love
and make it funny
-laurie anderson
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"Don't be fooled, straight people own the world and the only reason
you have been spared is you're smart, lucky, or a fighter."
-- Queer Nation
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Planned absences:
VACATION ... until 21 August 1990
16 Aug US 1827 Dp BOS 1845 Ar SYR 1954
US 1241 Dp SYR 2030 Ar YUL 2121
20 Aug US 51 Dp YUL 1130 Ar SYR 1226
US 1943 Dp SYR 1400 Ar BOS 1500
(yes, this routing involves flying twice as many miles as necessary
... that's the way US Air does it, i guess. have to justify all those
flights to SU somehow ... this flight marks the first time i've been to
syracuse since before i came to work for MIT. (un)fortunately(??) my
stopovers are short enough that i don't really have time to go to M
street for a THB.)
and then ...
30 Oct AA 903 Dp BOS 1216 Ar CCS 2110
5 Nov AA 902 Dp CCS 0915 Ar BOS 1704
Frequent-Flyer Mileage for most recent trip (including
fare bonuses, but excluding hotel mileage): 27,396
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Plans for this month:
D organising the PANSS tape (and thinking about off-site support)
* (now, thinking about version two ... )
! treatment of athena network services as layers upon vendor os.
* finding and retaining a man who can pass the "breakfast" test
* shoveling out my apartment
* considering moving the rest of my furniture (and books,
and tapes, etc.) back into my apartment.
legend: * = "in progress"
+ = "in 'bureaucratic-wait' state"
! = "a future problem," in proposal stage
D = "done"
--
>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 External Relations Group, where i handle a potpourri of
>systems development related tasks, including software export issues,
>off-site support and installations, 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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horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-10 at Tue Aug 14 14:58:32 EDT 1990.
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Everything you always wanted to know about Arab attitudes toward
Israel, but were afraid to ask....
Part 2:
``I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews!
Murder them all!''
- Haj Amin al Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, 1948
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