[2654] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Aug 16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Aug 16 01:25:25 1990
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 01:24:42 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
brlewis (Bruce R Lewis):
Article: 190 of alt.cyberspace
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: RealityNet (tm).
Date: 15 Aug 90 22:34:53 GMT
Sender: news@orc.Olivetti.Com
Reply-To: TEG@orc.olivetti.com (Tom Griner)
Followup-To: alt.cyberspace
Distribution: alt
Organization: Olivetti Research California (Menlo Park)
Lines: 14
VPL Research (Redwood City, CA.) is setting up a virtual
reality link to be known as RealityNet. MIT,
Univeristy of Washington, Univeristy of North Carolina
and VPL are collaborating on the long distance networking of
virtual reality equipment. Users will be able to put on
viewing headsets/speakers, body position sensors and be
able to view and interact with "virtual" computer generated
images of others "users" of the network.
Tom Griner Systems Administrator - Olivetti Research Center frames 2 /dev/fb
uunet!wyse!decwrl!pyramid!oliveb!TEG TEG@ORC.Olivetti.Com flames 2 /dev/null
pqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpqpq
bdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbd
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
celine (Robert Fullmer):
You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for
success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits
or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume
party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.
-- Dave Barry, "How to Dress for Real Success"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
garner (Robin Garner):
Q: So, has success changed you?
Bobby Weir: Yeah, it's changed me. You know how when you're eating
pistacios and you find one that's hard to get the shell open? Well, I
don't bother with them anymore.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
-----------------
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
6 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
---------------------------------
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-18 at Wed Aug 15 15:35:11 EDT 1990.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Everything you always wanted to know about Arab attitudes toward
Israel, but were afraid to ask....
Part 3:
``The Arab nations should sacrifice up to 10 million of their 50
million people, if necessary to wipe out Israel.... Israel to the Arab
world is like a cancer to the human body, and the only way of remedy
is to uproot it, just like a cancer.''
- Saud ibn Abdul Aziz, King of Saudy Arabia, //Associated Press//,
- January 9, 1954
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jmanders (Jamie M Anderson):
"I have just been thinking, and I have come to a very important decision.
These are the wrong sort of bees."
"Are they?"
"Quite the wrong sort. So I should think they would make the wrong sort
of honey, shouldn't you?"
"Would they?"
"Yes. So I think I shall come down."
"How?" asked you.
Winnie-the-Pooh hadn't thought about this.
--A. A. Milne
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Returning to Boston on (I think...) 22 August.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
rlcarr (Animato):
One! Two! Three! Four!
Fortune has me well in hand.
Armies wait at my command.
My goal lies in a foreign land,
Buried deep beneath the sand.
The angels guide my every tread
My enemies are sick or dead.
But all the victories I've lead
Haven't brought you to my bed.
You see, everybody loves me, baby.
What's the matter with you?
Won't you tell me what did I do
To offend you?
Now the purest race I've bred for thee
To live in my democracy.
And the highest human pedigree
Awaits the first-born boy, maybe.
And my face on every coin engraved.
The anarchists are all enslaved.
My own flag is forever waved
By the grateful people I have saved.
You see, everybody loves me, baby.
What's the matter with you?
Won't you tell me what did I do
To offend you?
Now, no land is beyond my claim
When the land is seized in the people's name
By evil men who rob and maim.
If war is hell, I'm not to blame.
Why you can't blame me, I'm heaven's child.
I'm the second son of Mary mild,
And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde.
But he didn't mind, why he just smiled.
Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through,
And the clouds dissolve, and the sky turns blue,
And Hell is very great value
By everyone I meet with you.
Cuz I've used my talents as I could,
I've done some bad, I've done some good.
I did a whole lot better than they thought I would
So come on and treat me like you should.
Because everybody loves me, baby.
What's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do
To offend you.
Yeah, everybody loves me, baby.
What's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do
To offend you.
Yeah, everybody loves me, baby.
What's the matter with you?
Tell tell me what did I do
To offend you.
"Everybody Loves Me, Baby"
AMERICAN PIE
Don McLean
[as usual, corrections/remarks desired, especially on the
"Hell...value" line, which I am guessing on]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
silk (Reshma P Patel):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
sosostre (Samuel Sostre):
Tuesday August 7, 1990
In a surprise move today, Judaism filed suit against the Catholic
Church, claiming Catholicism copied the "look and feel" of the
religion. Judaism, which has held the patent on the concept of a
mono-theistic religion for over 3500 years as well as the copyright on
Yahweh(R), The Old Testament(C), and the use of "CH"(tm) for the "H"
sound, is suing for 2000 years of back royalties. They are also
asking that the court disallow the use of the term "Judeo-Christian"
from all textbooks.
The Pope was unavailable for comment, but a spokesman from the Vatican
stated the suit was unfounded as the patent on the concepts shared by
the two religions has long expired, and that the suit violated the
separation of church and state. More news as the case develops.
-END-
Theologians have been meeting for 15 years to revise the Revised
Standard Version of the Bible. The New Revised Version(or NRSV) will
be published in 1990.\
Among the changes are two that were made to avoid possible
misunderstanding:
Psalm 50:9 is being changed from "I will accept no bull from your
house."
2 Corinthians 11:25 is being changed from "Once I was stoned" to "
Once I received a stoning."
--- End of Central America ---
