[2951] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Nov 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Nov 29 01:34:24 1990
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 01:33:53 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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cresti (Diana M Cresti):
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debbo (Deborah A Birnby):
"...in the folklore of the National Football League, free safeties,
along with split ends, are thought to be marginal, temreamental, moody
guys who love to hit."
-carne, carnales, and the carnivalesque by Jose Limon
from that same paper, when Limon was about to get in a fight while
doing field research in Texas: "... my most vivid recollection of that
instant being, 'Oh, shit, did the summer grant cover health
insurance?' "
ah the joy of non-science classes. or perhaps i am merely too easily
amused.
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
I agree. However given the amount of work involved I'd much rather
never see a Motif 1.3. I would totally trash the Intrinsics, do a straight
C++ implementation, and write a set of C routines to provide 75%-80%
compatibility with existing Motif. The more I use this stuff I the more
I feel that the Intrinsics are fatally flawed, particularly in areas like
geometry management, memory utilization, subclassing.... It's just not
worth the trouble. I'd rather seen it done over and done right. With true
multiple inheritance, object classes designed by someone who understood
objects. I'm tired of spending days trying to figure out exactly what
combination of widgets will elicit the proper layout, only to find out that
when the widget contents start changing the layout totally screws up.
I'm tired of discovering widgets that request a resize everytime they
redisplay, or lables that request a resize every time they change from
inactive to active or back. The more I look at it the more I think the entire
system is just flawed and the only way it will ever work right is if
someone starts all over again.
Phew! That let off some steam :-).
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
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livewire (Live Wire):
GETTING THE HELL OUTTA DODGE!!! YIP!!! YIP!!
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
Plan for this week...
sleep
x listen to Early Baroque's Greatest Hits
x draft of section one -- 21.690 paper
\ finish writing chapter 4 of my thesis
outline chapter 5 of my thesis
x = done
\ = in progress
(note that I haven't quite gotten around to sleeping yet...)
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Thought for the day:
Today's secret word is embezzle.
em.bez.zle \im-'bez-*l\ \-'bez-(*-)lin\ \-'bez-*l-m*nt\ \-'bez-(*-)l*r\ vt
or em.bez.zling [ME embesilen, fr. AF embeseiller, fr. MF en- + besillier)X
to destroy : to appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care)
fraudulently to one's own use - em.bez.zle.ment n - em.bez.zler n
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lwvanels (Lucien W. Van Elsen):
I found your letter my mailbox today
You were just checking if I was OK
And if I miss you you know what they say-
Just once, in a very blue moon-
Just once, in a very blue moon.
Just once, in a very blue moon,
and I feel one coming on soon.
No need to tell me you'd like to be friends
That you'd like to help me get back on feet again
And if I miss you it's just now and then.
There's a blue moon, shining-
When I'm reminded of all we've been through.
Such a blue moon, shining-
Does it it ever shine down on you?
You act as if it never hurt you at all
Like I'm the only one who's getting up from a fall
Don't you remember, or can't you recall?
Just once, in a very blue moon-
Just once, in a very blue moon.
Just once, in a very blue moon,
and I feel one coming on soon.
- Nanci Griffith
"Once in a Very Blue Moon"
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mojo (Mark A Johnson):
to write something i would have
enjoyed reading
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motto (Mary V Motto):
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
From Our Pal Dave (11/16/90):
Top 10 New Jobs for Milli Vanilli:
10. Open law firm of Jacoby, Meyers, Milli, Vanilli.
9. Camp counselors in Father Flanagan's Pretty Boys Town.
8. Jamaican pickpockets in American Express commercial.
7. Try to sell Ben & Jerry's on idea for Milli Vanilla.
6. Cartoon pals to Chilly-Willy.
5. Professional objects of scorn and ridicule for years to come.
4. Fact-checkers at "20/20" in the Buckwheat Division.
3. Even Newer Kids on the Block.
2. Extremely groovy fry cooks.
And the Number One New Job for Milli Vanilli
1. Who cares as long as we don't here from them ever again.
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rongut (Ron A Gut):
In a surprising 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 monotheistic religion
for over 3500 years as weel as the copyright on Yaweh(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 violates the
separation fo church and state. More news as the case develops.
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shanzer (Michael S. Shanzer):
I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go.
Walking with a dead man ...
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Bits and pieces, bits and pieces.
People.
People important to you, people unimportant to you cross your
life. Touch it with love and carelessness and move on.
There are people who leave you and you breathe a sigh of relief
and wonder why you ever came into contact with them.
There are people who leave you and you breathe a sigh of remorse
and wonder why they had to go away and leave such a gaping hole.
Children leave parents; friends leave friends, acquaintances
grow apart.
Enemies hate and move on.
Friends love and move on.
You think of the many who have moved into your hazy memory.
You look on those present and wonder.
I believe in God's master plan in life. He moves people in and
out of each other's lives, and each leaves his mark on the
other. You find you are made up of bits and pieces of all who
ever touched your life, and you are more because of it, and you
would be less if they had not touched you.
Pray to God that you accept the bits and pieces, in humility and
wonder, and never question and never regret.
Bits and pieces, bits and pieces.
- L. Channey
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