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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Fri Apr 5 01:35:17 1991
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 01:33:19 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ambar (Jean Marie Diaz):
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 06:22:53 PST
From: VAXstation Repo Man 04-Apr-1991 0918 <yerazunis@guess.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Strange posessions
One of my strangest (and maybe the most fun) posessions is a lead
box, with a deep, tight-fitting lid.
The box shakes when you rattle it. There's probably a piece of a bicycle
in there, or something like that.
People who visit occasionally pick up the box.
They shake the box gently. The box rattles.
They heft the box, to reassure themselves that it really is lead.
They examine the box, to reassure themselves that it really is a box.
They then consider what a nominally logical person would keep in a
heavy lead box with a tight-fitting lid.
They then very gingerly put the box down and move to the other
side of the room.
Loads of fun at parties...
-Bill
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aras (Aras):
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blade (Edward Min Lee):
To make and save money, because I need it.
Donations accepted.
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most Souls would scarcely
get your Feet wet. Fall not in Love, therefore: it will stick to your
face.
-- National Lampoon, "Deteriorada"
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
If you sent me mail on Athena between 3:30pm and 8:30pm on Thursday, April 4th,
please resend it. The SIPB NeXT machine ate it. Thanks...
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jamarroq (John Anthony Marroquin):
I'm finally done!
(And readable!)
Dot
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Today is the sixth 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:
[cont'd from yesterday -jt]
TUTORIALS
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Tutorial : The Monte Carlo Method as a Way of Avoiding Math
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Tutorial : Careers in Computer Graphics
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Participants will learn about opportunities in the graphics industry and
will be introduced to conversational Japanese.
Tutorial : Successful Grant Procurement
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Director of the Cornell Buzzword Concatenator Project presents his
method of proposal writing and discusses in detail his highly successful 1990
NSF-funded project, "Parallel Neural Networks for the Physically-Based AdaptiveSubdivision of NURBS in Multidimensional Ray-Traced Radiosity of a Virtual
Reality Visualization".
Tutorial: Introduction to Computer Graphics
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Participants will learn that "radiosity" means to lighten up the
pastel-colored things that are dark and that "teleological modeling in a
classical Newtonian regime" means to connect the parts with springs.
Tutorial: Landscaping for Real-Time Graphics Companies
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Computer graphics has struggled to model objects with photographic
realism. In the case of manufactured objects, the solution has been to force
all manufacturers to use CAD/CAM so that the man-made environment consists of
simple geometries. A modification of this solution can be applied to the
natural environment. We will discuss how to prune evergreens into cones and
how to shape shrubs into spheres and rectilinear hedges. Landscaping your
company's property using these techniques will allow your simplistic models of
nature to match exactly the view outside the window, fooling visiting
customers.
============== Coming in Tomorrow's .plan: PANELS =======================
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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.)
"The documentation for this program is obvious, therefore it is left as an
exercise for the grader."
- joel@cs.odu.edu
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mhbraun (Matthew H Braun):
Like the moment when the Brakes Lock,
And you slide toward the the big truck,
You stretch the fleating moments with your fear.
And you never hear their voices,
And you never see their faces,
You have no recourse to the law, anymore.
As the windshield melts,
And my tears evaporate,
Leaving only charcoal to defend,
Finally I understand the feelings of the few.
Ashes and diamonds,
Foes and friends,
We were all equal in the end.
-PF
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nazgul7 (Michael J Seidel):
name the song-
"... its a girl my lord, in a flat bed ford..."
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sgmurray (17 Hssp):
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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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warlord (Derek Atkins):
Still chugging away on my lab -- I wish I had a dollar
for every minute I spent in the 6.111 Lab --
Ahh, the Joys of MIT!
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