[2831] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Oct 27
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sat Oct 27 01:30:58 1990
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 01:30:25 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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arit (Ari Trachtenberg):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
Sunflowers
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
The plan is:
Stop Junjiro Horiuchi from touching his .plan!!!!
"Wasabi wa manko no naka ni aru"
Kunyaroo!!!
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dsi (David S Inouye):
THE PLAN
1) Get up early. (1 p.m. or so sounds good.)
2) Hang out in front of CVS.
3) Go to MIT to play "Hextris" on Athena.
4) Wait for the Muddy or the Ear to open.
5) Drink large quantities of a fermented beverage consisting of....
a) Hops
b) Wheat
c) Barley
d) All of the above malted and roasted.
6) Study for classes
7) Do research.
8) Call home.
9) Brush my teeth.
10) Go and sleep. Go to line 1.
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
"If a try falls down in a forest and noone is around to hear it,
does it make a sound?" (The answer, of course, is yes: the sound it
makes is "Moo.")
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horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-15 at Sat Oct 27 00:37:26 EDT 1990.
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jpark (Jahng-Hyon Park):
Who knows?
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lbreid (Lynn B Reid):
Drink scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel.
They got a name for the winners in the world
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
Plan for this week...
\ research on Beethoven for 21.690
\ listen to the Renaissance's Greatest Hits (21.621)
read chapters 15 and 35 for 6.046
\ make up exam for my 18.011 students
x get some REAL work done on my thesis
x get posters done for Halloween concert
\ get last minute things done for Halloween concert
x = done
\ = in progress
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Thought for the day:
Brook's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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lrh (Lyman R Hazelton):
I login here at least once every day. I can be found most of the
time in 9-338, phone 3-0297, or in 9-366, phone 8-7775.
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pwkan (paul wh kan):
Le plus grand defait de la penetration n'est pas de n'aller
point jusqu'au but, c'est de le passer.
--Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes
We [ie the human man "Equality 7-2521"] have come to see how
great is the unexplored, and many lifetimes will not bring us
to the end of our quest. But we wish no end to our quest. We
wish nothing, save to be alone and to learn, and to feel as if
with each day our sight were growing sharper than the hawk's and
clearer than rock crystal.
--Equality 7-2521, in Ayn Rand's Anthem
If it were only for vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of
action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent. . .to the
end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate
and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker
how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor
of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quary from whence we get
tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to
learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the
field and the work-yard made.
--R.W. Emerson, "The American Scholar"
Man manufactures a tool and by that action enriches the
totality of physical objects present in the world. Once produced,
the tool has a being of its own that cannot be readily changed by
those who employ it. Indeed the tool (say, an agricultural implement)
may even enforce the logic of its being upon its users, sometimes in
a way that may not be particularly agreeable to them.... Man invents
a language and then finds that both his speaking and his thinking are
dominated by its grammar. Man produces values and discovers that he
feels guilty when he contravenes them. Man concocts institutions,
which come to confront him as powerfully controlling and even menacing
constellations of the external world. . . .
Above all, society maintains itself by its coercive power.
The final test of its objective reality is its capacity to impose
itself upon the reluctance of individuals.... In other words, the
fundamental coerciveness of society lies not in its machineries of
social control, but in its power to constitute and to impose itself
as reality.... It is not enough that the individual look upon the key
meanings of the social order as useful, desirable, or right. It is
much better (better, that is, in terms of social stability) if he
looks upon them as inevitable, as part and parcel of the universal
"nature of things". If that can be achieved, the individual who
strays seriously from the socially defined programs can be considered
not only a fool or a knave, but a madman. Subjectively, then, serious
deviance provokes not only moral guilt but the terror of madness.
--Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy
Where works of art are rare, rarity itself is a value; it is only when
they are common . . . that one can learn their intrinsic worth.
--Goethe, as cited in TNR 25 Jun 90, pg35
Work: Richard L Sidman Lab (617) 735-6344
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Home: 428 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 494-9065/9833
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
"...Ask the old grey standing stones
Who show the sun his way to bed.
Question all as to their ways,
And learn the secrets that they hold.
Walk the lines of Nature's palm,
Crossed with silver and with gold..."
"Cup of Wonder"
Jethro Tull
SONGS FROM THE WOOD
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smoot (Stephen R. Smoot):
Address:
2621 Benvenue Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
smoot@cs.berkeley.edu (though smoot@athena forwards....)
(415) 848-5523, I'm up much later than you are...
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and
finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of
murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by
their ignorance the hard way."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
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srz (Stan Zanarotti):
Voulez-vouz du buerre?
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tron (Andrew H Cytron):
Against an evil man,
when he blazes up in unjust anger
and speaks harsh words,
there is no antidote
but silence.
--- End of Central America ---
