[3275] in Central_America
New quotes for Tue Mar 12
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue Mar 12 01:34:02 1991
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 01:33:34 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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dampier (Todd O Dampier):
To forge in the smithy of my soul ... um, something.
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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 Mon Mar 11 15:43:04 EST 1991.
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?
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dsi (David S Inouye):
Some wishful thinking..............
Summer's here! :)
I'm for that.
I've got my rubber sandals
got my straw hat
drinking cold beer.
I'm just glad that it's here.
Summer's here! B)
I suits me fine.
It may rain today but i don't mind.
It's my favorite time of the year
and i'm glad that it's here.
Old man Wintertime he moves so slow. :(
It`s 10 degrees below you know.
You can take your ice and snow
and let my balmy breezes blow.
-James Taylor
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gurfinkl (Mariano Enrique Gurfinkel Castil):
Develope a time integrator for discoutinuous functions ... and learn Voronoi diagrams
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"i was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
but heaven knows i'm miserable now ...
i was looking for a job, and then i found a job
and heaven knows i'm miserable now"
-- The Smiths
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-- quentin crisp
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Planned absences:
After 1 April 1991: Advanced Decision Systems
1500 Plymouth Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
Project Athena Technical Conference: 11-12 April
Europe! 13-22 April 1991
OSF DME defense; Munich, FRG (3-4 june 1991)
Frequent-Flyer Mileage for most recent trip (including
fare bonuses, but excluding hotel mileage): 8112
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Plans for this month:
* planning a new life
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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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
She came from Providence
(one in Rhode Island)
Where the old world shadows hang
Heavy in the air.
She packed her hopes & dreams
Like a refugee
Just as her father came
Across the sea.
She heard about a place
People were smiling.
They spoke about the red man's way,
How they loved the land.
They came from everywhere,
To the great divide.
Seeking a place to stand
Or a place to hide.
Down in the crowded bars,
Out for a good time
Can't wait to tell you all
What it's like up there.
They called it paradise,
I don't know why.
Somebody laid the mountains low
while the town got high.
Then the chilly winds blew down
across the desert,
Through the canyons of the coast
to the malibu,
Where the gritty people played
Hungry for power
To light their neon ways,
Give them things to do.
Some rich man came and raped the land;
Nobody caught him.
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes
And, Jesus, people bought 'em.
They called it paradise,
The place to be.
They watched the hazy sun
Sinking in the sea.
You can leave it all behind
And sail to the hiner (? harbor ? hinter ?)
Just like the missionaries did
So many years ago.
They even brought a neon sign
"Jesus is coming"
They brought the white man's burden down,
Brought the white man's rain.
Who will provide the grand design?
What is yours & what is mine?
There is no more new frontier,
We have got to make it here.
We satisfy our endless needs
And justify our bloody deeds.
In the name of destiny
And in the name of God.
And you can see them there
On Sunday morning,
Stand up and sing about
What it's like up there.
They called it paradise,
I don't know why.
You call some place paradise,
Kiss it goodbye.
"The Last Resort", The Eagles, _Hotel California_
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
3/12 Kristine's birthday
3/17 Kristine's bridal shower (Don't get wet :-) )
report 2 for 6.033
1.101 project proposal (heh, heh just wait...)
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Today's secret word is azimuthal.
az.i.muth \'az-(*-)m*th\ \.az-*-'m*th-*l\ \-'m*th-*-le-\ n [ME, fr.
(assumed ML, wr. Ar as-sumu-t the azimuth, pl. of as-samt)X the way 1: an
arc of the horizon measured between a fixed point (as true north) and the
vertical circle passing through the center of an object usu. in astronomy
and navigation clockwise from the north point through 360 degrees 2:
horizontal direction expressed as the angular distance between the
direction of a fixed point (as the observer's heading) and the direction of
the object - az.i.muth.al aj - az.i.muth.al.ly av
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marc (Marc Horowitz):
real programmer: [indirectly, from the book `Real Men Don't
Eat Quiche'] n. A particular sub-variety of hacker, one possessed
of a flippant attitude towards complexity that is arrogant even
when justified by experience. The archetypal `real programmer'
likes to program on the {bare metal}, and is very good at same;
he remembers the binary opcodes for every machine he's every
programmed; thinks that HLLs are sissy; and he uses a debugger to
edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real
Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been {bum}med
into a state of {tense}ness just short of rupture. Real
Programmers never use comments or write documentation; "If it was
hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to
understand." Real Programmers can make machines do things that
were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they're seldom really
happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe you with
its fiendish brilliance, even as it appalls by its level of
crockishness. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang
line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other
programmers --- because someday, somebody else might have to try to
understand their code in order to change it. Their successors
generally consider it a {Good Thing} that there aren't many Real
Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more
positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see `The Story of
Mel' in Appendix A.
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memetral (Max E Metral):
Become a famous DJ, get married, have kids.
You know, all that normal stuff.
Oh Yeah, and make many ducats so I can have a large office and gadget room,
then go back to school and take all the classes on pass/fail.
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premily (Emily R Prenner):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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sbfl (Siegfried B Fleischer):
55 Plymouth St., Camb., MA 02141
Friedrichsthaler Weg 32, 1000 Berlin 28, Germany
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snelling (Scott D. Snelling):
If you want to get in touch with me, send me email; I check it
frequently. If it's urgent, call me.
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Don't pull too hard, like a kite in the wind
You'll break the string, when I reel you in
Don't take off flying all on your own
When you finally come knocking, there'll be nobody home
Nobody Home
- Heart
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vrt (Mark D. Virtue):
"In closing, Pinball is a unique and exciting
experience overall. Lets face it, even playing
a "bad game" is interesting the first time."
Mario Van Cleave in "The Pinball Trader"
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yyoon (Yongsung Yoon):
To make plans
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