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New quotes for Wed Feb 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Feb 6 01:33:38 1991
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 91 01:32:48 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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brilit (Brian S Litofsky):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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busibisi (Adebisi A Lipede):
"Why did sex , that bizarre perversion of straight forward
replication ever arise in the first place? What is the good
of sex?
This is an extremely difficult question for the evolutionist
to answer. Most serious attempts to answer it involve sophisticated
mathematical reasoning.
From the book
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
p.46
My work phone number is 253-5756, E10-218
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cjsmith (CarolYN J Smith):
ANNOUNCING:
Recital:
CarolYN Jean Smith -- Recorder
Laura Ellen White -- Flute
Works by -- Sammartini
van Eyke
CPE Bach
Telemann
Saturday, February 9, 1991 8PM
Killian Hall, MIT
ADMISSION IS FREE (donations are gratefully accepted)
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dmweis (David M Weisberg):
Hi, my name is Dave Weisberg, and this is my plan file.
* * * *
Sorry, I don't exist any more. I left Athena at Wed Feb 6 00:16:11 EST 1991.
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glassw (William B Glass):
From: byron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: gli@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: tmc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Coyote Physics.......................................
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 89 01:09:50 EDT
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Coyote Physics
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(by Trevor Paquette & Justin Baldwin)
Cartoon Law I.
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Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made
aware of it situation.
(Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland.
He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to
look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per
second per second takes over.)
Cartoon Law II.
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Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until matter
intervenes suddenly.
(Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on foot, cartoon
characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone
pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely.
Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the
"Stooge's surcease.")
Cartoon Law III.
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Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation
conforming to its perimeter.
(Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the
specialit of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless
cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the
wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout- perfect hole. The threat of
skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.)
Cartoon Law IV.
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The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is
greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off
the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it
unbroken.
(Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to
capture it inevitably unsuccessful.)
Cartoon Law V.
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All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
(Psychic forces are sufficient in most bodies for a shock to
propel them directly away from the earth's surface. A spooky noise or
an adversary's signature sound will induce motion upward, usually to
the cradle of a chandelier, a treetop, or the crest of a flagpole.
The feet of a character who is running or the wheels of a speeding
auto need never touch the ground, especially in flight.)
Cartoon Law VI.
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As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
(This is particularly true of tooth-and-claw fights, in which
a character's head may be glimpsed emerging from the cloud of
altercation at several places simulataneously. This effect is also
common among bodies that are spinning or being throttled. A 'wacky'
character has the option of self-replication only at manic high speeds
and may ricochet off walls to achieve the velocity required.)
Cartoon Law VII.
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Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to
resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot.
(This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but
at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's
surface to trick an opponent will be unable to pursue him into this
theoretical space. The painter is flattened against the wall when he
attempts to follow into the painting. This is ultimately a problem of
art, not of science.)
Cartoon Law VIII.
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Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
(Cartoon cats possess even more deaths than the traditional
nine lives might comfortably afford. They can be decimated, spliced,
splayed, accordian-pleated, spindled, or disassembled, but they cannot
be destroyed. After a few moments of blinking self pity, they
reinflate, elongate, snap back, or solidify.)
Cartoon Law IX.
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For every vengeance there in an equal and opposite revengeance.
(This is the one law of animated cartoon motion that also
applies to the physical world at large. For that reason, we need the
relief of watching it happen to a duck instead.)
Cartoon Law X.
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Any object will fall faster than any other object which
inflicts more pain upon impact.
(This quirk in the law of gravity can be seen in an endless
series of experiments involving anvils and boulders. A coyote, after
securing an anvil with an industrial-sized rubber band to two cacti,
will launch the anvil in such a trajectory that it will loosen any
number of odd-sized boulders from their resting places, causing them
to roll or fall from any given cliff directly onto the coyote-- in the
order in which the pain of impact gradually increases. The anvil will
always return to the coyote.)
These immutable principles of Cartoon Physics are funny, no?
That's all the physics many people know, no? Funny? No.
SCIENCE SMARTS: The Scandal of Scientific Illiteracy
Monday, October 16, at 4 PM in Kresge Auditorium
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Enjoy.
-Halloween Jack.
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
WHATEVER
pronoun:
1. Everything or anything that: "Do whatever you please."
2. What amount that; the whole of what: "Whatever is left over is
yours."
3. No matter what; regardless of what: "Whatever happens, we'll meet
here tonight."
4. (Informal) What; which thing or things. used in questions expressing
surprise or puzzlement: "Whatever does he mean?"
adjective:
1. Of any number or kind; any: "Whatever requests you make will be
granted."
2. All of; the whole of: "He applied whatever strength he had left to
the task."
3. No matter what: "blown oblivious and without destination upon
whatever wind" (Faulkner)
--courtesy of The American Heritage Dictionary
whatever we may have said or done, whatever we do next, whatever fates
our lives bring us to, whatever our friendship means, whatever did you
mean when you said "Whatever"?
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joshg (Joshua D Gagliardi):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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jule (Julie E Stein):
Hey everyone----------
My phone number changed to 225-6119
"I worked hard to get where I am. Where am I??????????????
SMILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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kevles (Beth Kevles):
Regular Weekly Schedule:
Monday: In 9:30 to 5:30, +/- 30 min
Tuesday: In 9:30 to 5:30, +/- 30 min
Offsite 11:30 to noon
Wednesday: In 9:30 +/- 30 min to 6:00
Doc. mtg 11 to noon
11-115 1 to 3pm
Thursday: In 1:00 to 9:00, +/- 30 min
C-mtg 5 to 7pm
Friday: In 9:30 to 5:30, +/- 30 min
TNSSAAFL (if scheduled) 12:30 to 2
11-115 3 to 5pm
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
This week:
get some *REAL* work done for Athena
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Thoughts for the day:
Warning: tires from Shell can be hazardous to your health. On
Wednesday night, the tire on my car blew while I was traveling
home on 93. I managed to get home using the spare tire. On
Friday, I was preparing to visit my sister in Maine. Since
I did not want to travel the 1.5 hours on the spare tire, I
went to Magazine Beach Shell to purchase a new tire. For
$68 + change, I got a new tire that blew out 30 miles down
the road (with a hole the size of a softball in the sidewall
of that steelbelted tire). Well, I ended up using the spare
to get to Maine. The next day, I got two tires for $79 from
Montgomery Ward. Those tires have lated 100 miles so far...
Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.
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marc (Marc Horowitz):
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mercedes (Benz-Ney Theodore):
To graduate from M.I.T..
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rtadams (Robert T. Adams):
No comment.
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Name: Therese Miho Honda
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Status: Single (but not for long)
Major: Theoretical Mathematics (Theoretically)
Level: 4 Exp. Points: 153 276
Attributes: (very low: 1, ... very high: 10)
Strength: 3.5 (According to the Scott Corrington Arm wrestling test)
Dexterity: 6
Self Control: 8
Patience: 8
Charisma: 7
Intelligence: 9 (I can dream, can't I?)
Empathy: 7.5
Primary Skills:
Amateur Photography (pictures of trees with a Kodak instamatic)
Drawing (happy faces and doodles in notebook margins)
Eating (good food, and some bad when hungry enough)
Piano playing (about 10 years)
Sighing (for no reason in particular)
Singing (Not great, but can carry a tune)
Sleeping (rarely, but soundly)
Swimming (self-taught, and inventor of the Therese original semi-freestyle)
Talking (for about 19 years, lots of it too)
Languages:
Japanese: 1.5 years
English: 19 years
Pidgin: 19 years (but another Hawaiian is necessary to bring this out)
Favorite Quote:
"Bits and pieces, bits and pieces.."
Favorite Song:
Be still my beating heart
It would be better to be cool
It's not time to be open just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget
Be still my beating heart
Or I'll be taken for a fool
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughs that plague me so
I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart
Restore my broken dreams
Shattered like a falling glass
I'm not ready to be broken just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget
Be still my beating heart
You must learn to stand your ground
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart
Never to be wrong
Never to make promises that break
It's like singing in the wind
Or writing on the surface of a lake
And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land
And I struggle to avoid any help at hand
I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart
- Sting (of course!!)
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Address: Home: Email:
McCormick Hall #233 47-623 Nukupu'u Street therese@athena.mit.edu
320 Memorial Drive Kaneohe, Hawaii suukko@bourbaki.mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 96744-5510 honda@ai.mit.edu
02139-4316
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
You can figure out the tune:
A bug hunting I will go,
A bug hunting I will go,
I'll find one new and fix it soon,
A bug hunting I will go.
-Anonymous
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