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New quotes for Wed Jan 16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Jan 16 01:31:14 1991
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 91 01:30:50 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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alitass (Mohammad Ali Tassoudji):
Home: MIT
Room 26-440
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-8209
Sleep: 550 Memorial Dr. #4C2
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 621-0828
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
Remember.
Remember me when I am gone away.
Gone far away into the silent land,
Where you can no more hold me by the hand.
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning, stay.
Remember me no more, when, day by day,
You'd tell me of the future that you planned.
Only remember me, you understand:
It will be too late to counsel then, or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve.
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestiage of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far that you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember, and be sad.
Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894
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cedar (May F Nasrallah):
Finding Walid Nasrallah? >>> try (617) 661-2538 or P.O. Box 44 at 02142
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debbo (Deborah A Birnby):
a time for peace....
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Imake -- just say "OverlyComplexUtilityDesirabilityIndex = nil"
--- Scott Schwartz <schwartz"groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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fallas:
from _Quo Vadis_
"I know, O Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience,
that thy true heart of a friend is yearning day and night for me. I know that
thou art ready to cover me with gifts, make me prefect of the pretorian guards,
and command Tigellinus to be that which the gods made him, a mule-driver in
those lands which thou didst inherit after poisoning Domitus. Pardon me, how-
ever, for I swear to thee by Hades, and by the shades of thy mother, thy wife,
thy brother, and Seneca, that I cannot go to thee. Life is a great treasure.
I have taken the most precious jewels from that treasure, but in life there are
many things which I cannot endure any longer. Do not suppose, I pray thee,
that I am offended because thou didst kill thy mother, thy wife, and thy
brother; that thou didst burn Rome and send to Erebus all the honest men in thy
dominions. No, grandson of Chronos. Death is the inheritance of man; from
thee other deeds could not have been expected. But to destroy one's ear for
whole years with thy poetry, to see thy belly of a Domitus on slim legs whirled
about in Pyhrric dance; to hear thy music, thy declamation, thy doggerel
verses, wretched poet of the suburbs,--is a thing surpassing my power, and it
has roused in me the wish to die. Rome stuffs its ears when it hears thee;
the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to
do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offen-
sive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be
ashamed of his howling. Farewell, but make not music; commit murder, but write
no verses; poison people, but dance not; be an incendiary, but play not on a
cithera. This is the wish and the last friendly counsel sent thee by the
--Arbiter Elegantiae.
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Thank Thee, God, for all that is good. And thank you, man, for all that isn't.
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henry (Henry Mensch):
KUWAIT AIRWAYS NOT DISCOURAGED
A TV commercial for Kuwait Airways is making one of the most
audacious ad promises ever. Viewers see a description of the Kuwaiti
national airline's U.S. service schedule: "New York to London, Cairo,
the (Persian) Gulf and Bombay. Three days a week. "And to Kuwait any
day now." The ad ends with the airline's slogan: "Meeting the challenge
and flying high."
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Planned absences:
USENIX; Dallas, TX (21-25 January 1991)
21 Jan UA 135 Dp BOS 1610 Ar ORD 1757
UA 943 Dp ORD 1855 Ar DFW 2123
27 Jan UA 762 Dp DFW 1110 Ar ORD 1314
UA 134 Dp ORD 1400 Ar BOS 1713
staying at: Addison Courtyard at the Marriott; 4165 Proton Dr;
Addison, TX 75244
OSF DME defense; Munich, FRG (late February/early March 1991)
Frequent-Flyer Mileage for most recent trip (including
fare bonuses, but excluding hotel mileage): 6,530
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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
* OSF DME nonsense
* 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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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
This week:
I'm back and taking courses!!
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Thoughts for the day:
X programmers: They do windows.
Today's secret word is Athena.
Athe.na or Athe.ne \*-'the--n*\ \-(.)ne-\ n [Gk Athe-ne-] : the goddess of
wisdom and of women's crafts in Greek mythology
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mczody (Michael C. Zody):
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mmhsu (Michelle M Hsu):
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause. We don't discriminate.
Discovery is to be disowned.
Our currency is flesh and bone.
Hell opened up and put on sale,
Gather 'round and haggle.
For hard cash we will lie and deceive.
Even our masters don't know the webs we weave.
One world.
It's a battleground.
One world.
And we will smash it down.
One world...one world...
Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken. A silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war.
You can't stop what has begun.
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion.
We all have a dark side, to say the least.
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast.
One world.
It's a battleground.
One world.
And they will smash it down.
One world...one world...
The dogs of war don't negotiate.
The dogs of war won't capitulate.
They will take and we will give.
And you must die so that they may live.
You can knock on any door
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before.
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.
One world, it's a battleground.
One world, are we gonna smash it down?
One world...one world...
"The Dogs of War"
Pink Floyd
A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON
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royappa (A. Tim Royappa):
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sao (Andy Oakland):
It's common knowledge that whenever you get two or more CS grad students
together, the conversation will inevitably drift to the same topic:
automatic weapons. Lately, we've noticed that whenever we attend a CS party,
picnic, or bullsession, we always hear the same questions and discussions,
usually from the younger grad students:
"I want to mount an M60 in front of the sun roof of my Tercel, but
the mounting bracket wasn't drilled for import cars. How did Josh
Bloch do his?"
"What exactly are those special 'conference rounds' that Newell hand loads
before AAAI every year?"
"Do you have to be a god-damned tenured professor to get teflon rounds
at this place?"
"Does the way Jon Webb keeps flicking the safety of his Mac-10 on
and off at thesis defenses make you nervous, too?"
In short, there is a lot of concern in this department for the proper care,
handling and etiquette of automatic weapons. So as a service to the
department, we are starting a two week daily series on "The Care and Handling
of Your M16A1."
(from a much longer article, forwarded by some circuitous route from cmu...)
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
At the still point of destruction
At the centre of the fury
All the angels all the devils
All around us can't you see
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand...
- Sting,
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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zhuh (Hui Zhu):
Hui Zhu
APT. 309, WESTGATE APARTMENTS
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)252 0047
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