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New quotes for Wed Oct 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Oct 3 01:32:19 1990
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 01:31:31 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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abbas (Gregory B Abbas):
Hi!
I'm a sophomore in 6-3. I live at senior house, in Atkinson 403. You can
reach me at (617) 225-6683, send mail to
Box A403T
4 Ames St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
or better yet, stop by and visit.
-G.
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"Have some wine," the March Hare said in an engouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it
but tea. "I don't see any wine," she remarked.
"There isn't any," said the March Hare.
-- Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
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gurfinkl (Mariano Enrique Gurfinkel Castil):
Finish my MSME thesis on October 12...
I hope !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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henry (Henry Mensch):
SEMYONOVSKAYA, U.S.S.R. -- Moscow will have almost no potatoes this
winter because God is punishing Russia for letting the Communists rule
for seven decades.
That's what 64-year-old Maria Zaitseva said as she hunched over with
her bare hands to wrestle a green potato out of the mud. Many of the
hundred other Moscow residents here, mired in ankle and wrist deep mud
to harvest rotting potatoes, agreed with her gloomy outlook on the
winter to come.
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TOP TEN THINGS OVERHEARD AT THE CINCINNATI OBSCENITY TRIAL
(From "Late Night with David Letterman")
10. Ewww! Gross!
9. May I once again request that the district attorney refrain from
giggling.
8. What the hell is Al Sharpton doing here?
7. Why, Rusty the bailiff -- he's trembling!
6. Thanks for taking a personal interest in this case, Congressman
Frank.
5. Didn't he get burned stirring his coffee that way?
4. And these were taken by the Hubble telescope?
3. Hey, how about those Bengals?
2. Wait a minute -- that's Neil Bush
1. No, no -- I said subpoena!
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Planned absences:
OSF Management SIG; Cambridge, MA
2 Oct .. through
4 Oct
EDUCOM; Atlanta, GA
13 Oct EA 141 Dp BOS 1600 Ar ATL 1852
17 Oct EA 144 Dp ATL 1800 Ar BOS 2034
VACATION ... in Caracas!
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): 3,000
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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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higgy (James Higginbotham):
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horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-6 at Tue Oct 2 13:41:57 EDT 1990.
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
If I Needed Someone
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Rubber Soul
The Beatles
If I needed someone to love
You're the one that I'd be thinking of
If I needed someone...
If I had some more time to spend
Then I guess I'd be with you my friend
If I needed someone...
Had you come some other day then
It might not have been like this
But you see now I'm too much in love
Carve your number on my wall
And maybe you will get a call from me
If I needed someone...
(repeat last three verses)
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Everything you always wanted to know about Arab attitudes toward
Israel, but were afraid to ask....
[Hey, there's something new! They hate the US too!]
Part 40:
``The liquidation of Israel is one of the means we adopt to achieve
unity and freedom in the Arab world. We know that liberation is a
long-term goal, but I am about to determine that, at the end of this
year, a democratic Palestinian state will be established.''
- Hani al-Hasan, Political Adviser to Yasir Arafat, Speech at the
- American University,, Beirut, //An-Naha//, Beirut, January 9,
- 1982
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jtidwell (Jenifer P. Tidwell):
On modern art, aesthetics, and art criticism:
Why is it that so much of modern art is understood only by those
who are specially trained in art criticism? Time and again, I have
stood before some abstract structure of metal, and the reactions I
hear around me are "That's ugly!" Yet art critics see much meaning in
these works that, obviously, we do not see.
One can respond by saying that the art critics know more about Art
than the average person on the street, and therefore, they are in a
better position to understand it. But does this not beg the question
of WHY the art was done in such a way? Was the artist really
intending to express the ideas that the critics see in the work? If
not, why not? It seems to me that if the communication between the
artist and the viewer fails, there is something lacking in the work.
The misunderstanding may go in one of two ways -
If trained critics can analyze, appreciate, and enjoy the work, but
the average person cannot, then that art is not created for "the
masses" - it is done for an elite few that have been taught to
understand such works. If I wished to think poorly of humanity, I
would question the artist's motives... However, it is true that an
artist is the product of his or her cultural environment, and if all
artists are taught to do abstract, enigmatic, "ugly" art, then that is
what will be produced. It does seem to be a trend over the past few
decades. Yet modern art was built upon a tradition stretching back
many millenia. We have Michelangelo, Renoir, and Monet - and
Beethoven, and Shakespeare, and Disney - in our culture as well, and
the average person can certainly appreciate their works. These
artists have produced works that please our aesthetic sense. What
happened to that? Is the "modern art culture" so determined to not
repeat the successes of the past that it has rejected the traditional
aesthetic sense out of hand?
There is something more sinister about the other side of
misunderstanding. Do the art critics read more into the works of
modern art than the artist put there? And do they take such analyses
seriously? It is a common joke that someone can blindly throw
together random things in some random order, and pass it off as Art to
some critic. Could this really happen? Has it already? If so, what
will the modern-art culture _not_ call Art? If anything can be
Art, then the definition seems to break down... and suddenly, one work
of art is no better than any other. Talent goes by the wayside, and
Art as we know it is no longer there.
So why is Modern Art in the condition it is? Why, for instance, is
Transparent Horizons the most "misunderstood" and hated work of art on
the MIT campus, even though it is surrounded by thousands of the
brightest and most perceptive people in the country?
There's something wrong here.
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Have you ever seen the actor who plays Mike Randall (from _Parker
Lewis_) at the same time as Paul Boutin? Are they the same person?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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montreal (Toby T. Kwan):
Dream what you want to dream.
Go where you want to go,
be who you want to be...
but remember to enjoy
every step of life's journey.
It's easy to become
so focused on a goal
that the rest of life
passes unnoticed...
even unappreciated.
It's important to remember
that the essence of each day
is unique and fleeting.
Minutes are grains of sand
that slip all to quickly
through our fingers,
leaving only memories.
So follow your dream --
wherever it may lead you
and remember to enjoy
each and every step
along the way.
Renee Duvall
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njblock (Ned Block):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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panda (Chris Reed):
6 courses + 2 theses + 1 RA = 2 more terms + 3 degrees!
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paul (Paul Boutin):
A kid'll eat ivy too. Wouldn't you?
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pmgannon (Patrick Gannon):
Are you a Have or a Have_Not? Because if you're a Have_Not, you've probably
had it; whereas, if you're a Have, you've probably got it and are going to
give it away at some point in the future! --- The Clash
Which came first: the compiler, or the language?
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wchuang (Mithrandir):
Cattleyas
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wei (Jiann J Wei):
CAT is a new kind of fish, namely selFISH!
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