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New quotes for Thu Apr 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Apr 4 01:34:03 1991
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 01:33:18 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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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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debbo (Deborah A Birnby):
bogus though of the day/week/etc....
until 1972, it was illegal for women to run in the boston marathon.
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drbacher (David R Bacher):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
o If it's not broken, don't force it.
o If you're happy, don't press your luck.
o If everything seems wrong, it must be you, not everything else.
o If things are going well, don't think about it.
o If you think about how well things are going, things will change.
o Don't outstay your welcome.
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Today is the fifth day of the Omer.
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jtidwell (Jenifer P. Tidwell):
The Siggraph `91 Conference On Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques will be held July 29 - August 2 in Las Vegas, NV. The following
contains selected portions of the recently released Siggraph '91
Preliminary Program:
Computer Graphics Achievement Award
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Awarded to persons who have significantly aided and inspired the
progress of computer graphics research.
This Year's Winner : Jack Daniels
Previous Winners:
Miss November, 1972
the Mandrill
Juan Veldez
Nelson and Minnie Max
General Gao of Szechuan
TECHNICAL PAPERS
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Simulation of Motion Blur, Penumbra, and Soft Shadows by Jittering the Film
Recorder.
Advances in Physically-Based X Windows: Shattering, ScrollBar Momentum,
ChainSaw and Paste, Pixmap Tile Grout.
A Bidirectional Pipeline Architecture for Publishing the Same Algorithm in
Both Graphics and Vision.
Lens Cap and Thumb Models for the Simulation of Amateur Photographic Effects.
Butta-Splines : A Class of Surfaces with the Continuity of a Baby's Butt.
Real-Time Postscript on a 30 Pages-Per-Second Printer and the Resurgence of
the American Lumber Industry.
An Implicit Equation for the Utah Teapot.
Quaaludes : Shortening Perceived Rendering Time by Altering the User.
The Litmus Test : Using pH Measurements to Distinguish the Research of
Pat Hanrahan, Paul Haeberli, and Paul Heckbert.
Spherical Fractals and the Production of Benoit Balls.
============ Coming in Tomorrow's .plan: TUTORIALS =====================
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Off to visit UW & Berkeley...back Wed 4/10.
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
Wednesday: 6.033 quiz
Thursday: 1.101 prelim questionnaire due
I've interviewed with a bunch of acronyms (ERA, SRA,
BTG, CMD, STI, etc), a letter (E-Systems) and a name
(Ernst and Young). I hope some of them give me offers.
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
I am looking for volunteers for a 1.101 survey. The survey will take
a few minutes (less than half-an-hour), will conducted over athena,
and everyone who volunteers will be entered in a lottery to win a $5
gift certificate to Tosci's. ^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you are interested in volunteering for this survey (and helping a
poor senior graduate on time), please send email to lnp@athena.MIT.EDU
(Jik: sorry if you're seeing this again... but I'm trying to graduate.)
Today's secret word is involute.
1. in.vo.lute \'in-v*-.lu:t\ aj [L involutus involved, fr. pp. of
involvere] 1a1: curled spirally 1a2: having the whorls closely coiled {~
shell} 1b1: curled or curved inward 1b2: having the edges rolled over the
upper surface toward the midrib {an ~ leaf} 2: INVOLVED, INTRICATE -
in.vo.lute.ly av
2. involute n : a curve traced by a point on a thread kept taut as it is
unwound from another curve
3. in.vo.lute \.in-v*-'lu:t\ vi 1: to become involute 2a: to return to a
former condition 2b: to become cleared up : DISAPPEAR
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sethf (Seth Finkelstein):
Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
And heed well their advice -- even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss -- and when.
Remember that two wrongs never make a right,
But that three lefts do.
Wherever possible, put people on `HOLD'.
A walk in the oceans of most souls
would scarcely get your feet wet.
Don't let the sands of time get in your lunch.
Be comforted, that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
And despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
You are a fluke of the universe ...
You have no right to be here.
Whether you can hear it or not, the universe
Is laughing behind your back.
-- National Lampoon
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Beethoven's gone but his music lives on
and Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
and Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and
love whiles composing their long symphony.
But one hundred and fifty years later
there's very little of them left to see.
The decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven
but Beethoven cannot hear you.
H{ndel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
But nowadays no one will serve them
and their grave it is left to conceal.
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
with their highly original sound.
The pianos like Pleyel does still working
but thereabout six feet under ground.
The decomposing composers.
There's less of them every year.
You can say what you like to Debussy
but there's not much of him left to hear.
Claude Achille Debussy. Died 1918.
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Died 1787.
Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well 1825. Died 1826.
Giacomo Meyerbeer. Still alive 1863. Not still alive 1864.
Modest Musorgski. 1880 going to parties. No fun any more 1881.
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vanharen (Chris `syndic' VanHaren):
It's a living hell...
but someone's got to furnish it.
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
I plan to spend the rest of my living and dying
days in the 111 lab -- until the end of the term,
assuming I make it that far!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Phew.
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