[3335] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Apr 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Apr 10 01:31:41 1991
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 01:31:22 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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bcb (Brian C Bermack):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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chclee (Christopher H Lee):
1) Finish MIT with a life.
2) Finish MIT with 84 zillion majors.
3) Get finished.
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danzahn (Danielsan):
Stop fingering me or I'll file harassment charges!!!!!
I'm not kidding! Don't ever try that again, bucko!!!!!
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efhilton (Edgar Hilton):
"I love this fu**ing University, and this University loves fu**ing me"
-- Anonymous
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
>>>From: goldstein@enet.src.dec.com (Andy Goldstein - VMS Development)
The "master" clock is maintained as a software construct by VAX VMS. It is a
cell in the exec that contains the current date and time in the VMS quadword
time format. This value represents the time elapsed since 17-Nov-1858 in tenths
of microseconds. With this precision, the 64 bit signed value has a range of
approximately 29,000 years; VMS development has not developed a plan for what
to do when it overflows.
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hmnarvae (Howard Mario Narvaez):
Being happy isn't so bad. . .
and I still like lots of good pizza.
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honor (Andrew John Cassidy):
To be true to myself.
To eat in one sitting what should last a lifetime.
To go back for seconds afterwards.
Thoughts to consider:
Of all the people who have ever fingered me, you are now one.
'Gather ye rose buds while ye may
old time is still a flying
and the same flower that blooms today
tomorrow will be dying'
--Uncle Walt (Whitman, you moron)
FOR A GOOD TIME TYPE: /mit/honor/tryme
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jewell (Darrin B Jewell):
a plan?.. are you kidding me?.. when was i that organized?...
------------------------jewell@athena.mit.edu-----------------KA2ZLZ------
Darrin Jewell | Massassachusetts Insttute of Technology | Darrin B. Jewell
4 Ames Street | Senior House -- Runkle 304 | 8 Thomaston Lane
Cambridge, MA | | Orchard Park, NY
USA 02142 | You're a person, that's good enough. | USA 14127-2526
(617)225-6771 | --Elizabeth Thelen Feb 20, 1991 | (716) 662-9440
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jh (Joseph Harrington):
I assert that no one in the
history of unix has ever been confused about the existence or
non-existence of a file based on whether or not it appears with a dot at
the beginning of it.
-walt@osf.org, the man responsible for a punctuation-based
file-naming scheme coming soon to a workstation
near you. So much for goals of user friendliness
in OSF/1.
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Back in Boston for a while...
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
Thursday 4/11: My brother's bday
questionnaire and finalized proposal due for 1.101
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Today's secret word is aggression.
ag.gres.sion \*-'gresh-*n\ n [L aggressus, pp. of aggredi to attack, fr.
ad- + gradi] to step, go - more at GRADE 1: an offensive action or
procedure; esp : an unprovoked attack 2: the practice of making attacks or
encroachments
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mickey (Phrank Yeean Chan):
If there was a problem, Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
Girls don't give hugs if your code has bugs
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
DEAR MISS MANNERS -- I was participating in an anti-war demonstration
when a filthily attired older man and his three friends began harassing
me.
After several minutes, the man told me to begin supporting the war
movement ``or I will stop treating you like a lady.'' He proffered his
fists and stuck his index finger in front of my nose.
After a moment's reflection, I arched my eyebrows, looked him directly
in the eyes and said, in my most menacing tone: ``How dare you threaten
me? Who do you think you are?''
Apparently stunned, he backed off, and the four of them left, shouting
comments again -- only when they were far enough away that I could
easily ignore them.
While this approach succeeded in preventing a physically violent
conflict, it did leave me itching to point out that:
1. Not beating someone up is hardly considered a luxury in polite
society.
2. If his original behavior indicated some type of special treatment for
``ladies,'' he certainly did not have a very humane view of women.
Considering the context of such verbal conflicts, is it best to ignore
discussion of these factors, or are they adequately conveyed by taking
offense at the instigator's words?
I have been trained in the martial arts and anticipate that I could
easily subdue such a man physically if the need arose.
GENTLE READER -- Yes, but Miss Manners thought you were against settling
conflicts by violence. Isn't that why you were out marching?
That your accosters seemed to think that they knew anything at all about
the behavior of ladies ought to have struck you as ludicrous. Miss
Manners should hardly have to point out to you that they were no
gentlemen.
Why, then, do you now wonder whether you should have engaged them in a
discussion of manners?
It seems to Miss Manners that you behaved like a perfect lady -- a
perfectly justifiably outraged lady. What is more, it worked. You sent
them packing. The shouts from a safe distance were a pathetic attempt to
cover their shamefacedness at the very proper dressing down you gave
them.
Miss Manners congratulates you on using ladylike behavior in place of
violence, and urges you not to have regrets about your success.
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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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