[3360] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed May 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed May 1 01:32:21 1991
Date: Wed, 1 May 91 01:31:19 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
If we can distinguish and pronounce rough, cough, chough, lough,
through, bough, hough, enough, slough, Slough and tough, as well as
bow, cow, low, row, throw, how, hoe, enow, tow, toe, sloe, and slow,
we really don't need \"\i\ in ``naive.''
- Malcolm Clark, TeXpert Systems Ltd., in TUGboat 12:1
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
From _U.: The Nation College Newspaper_. What is wrong with the
second sentence?
"George Greshham doesn't think his generation is a selfish,
money-hungry bunch of materialists."
"But Gresham, 24, is in the 18- to 30-year-old age category,
recently dubbed the 'I Deserve It' generation by Michale Josephson,
founder of the California-based Josephson Institute for the
Advancement of Ethics."
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caesar (Lorin R Jurow):
You know what I really want?
To convince people that us computer science geeks aren't really as bad as
we seem to be. Really. We're not all that bad. But why am I telling you?
You must be a geek if you are getting any joy out of "finger"ing me.
Ha, it's a Catch-22!
Oh, well. This school is slowly driving me insane.
IHTFP
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
Itinerary:
4/30 - 5/1: Work like a crazed yak on the two papers I have to finish before
leaving town.
5/2 - 5/13: Hang out in Boston, go to Steer Roast, and generally make a
nuisance of myself (and get various programs to work better in
the MIT environment while I'm there).
5/14 - 5/20: Clean up my apartment (yecch), and pack up and send all my
worldly goods to either California or Boston. Work at OCIS
and set up the documentations people for the summer.
5/20 - 6/3: Hang out in Southern California, lying on Monarch Beach and
visiting with old friends. Play copious amounts of basketball.
5/22 - 5/24: Get a ride up to Berkeley and see a friend graduate, maybe?
6/3 - ?: Fly back out to Boston and (hopefully) start work. Anybody
know of a cheap way to get from Houston or California to Boston,
one way? Hitchhiking is probably too slow...
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As a side note to those of you who I ztalked to about starting up a
Rice equivalent of the SIPB, things are rolling...
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dhbernst (David H Bernstein):
Last login:
Tue Apr 30 18:00:19 EDT 1991
Teaching: 1.973 -- Geographic Information Systems for Transportation
Planners and Engineers
M,W 4:30 - 6:00 Room 1-242
Research: Congestion Reduction Policies
Transportation and Land-Use Interactions
Visualization and Data Management in Transportation
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dhlevy (David H Levy):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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dpeisach (Daniel Peisach):
I hear the drizzle of the rain.
Like a memory it falls.
Soft and warm, continuing,
Tapping on my roof and walls.
And from the shelter of my mind,
Through the window of my eyes,
I gaze beyond the rain drenched streets
To the land where my heart lies.
My mind's distracted and effused.
My thoughts are many miles away.
They lie with you when you're asleep.
Kiss you when you start your day.
And the song I was writing is left undone.
I don't know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can't believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme.
And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true.
I stand alone without beliefs.
The only truth I know is you.
And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die,
I know that I am like the rain.
There before the grace of you go I.
-Kathy's Song
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garrison (Xinben G Qian):
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honor (Andrew John Cassidy):
To be true to myself.
To eat. Alot.
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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kagraves (Kenneth A Graves):
In a net discussion of the veracity of the New York Times:
How can you believe a newspaper without comics?
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
6.033 case study due Thursday 5/2
4/27 MIT CONCERT BAND CONCERT!!!!!!
4/28 MIT BRASS ENSEMBLE CONCERT
5/3 next set of repairs done on car
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Netsec - n. A Unit of time used in indicating work time lost due to
reading net.jokes
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mingliu (Minghsun Liu):
"The GNU copyleft, which creates legal obligations on the part of
anyone selling it, causes lawyers to go into infinite loops."
-- Andrew Tannenbaum
"The only thing wrong with the gene pool is it lacks a lifeguard."
"Every institution I've ever been associated with has tried to screw
me."
-- Stephen Wolfram
"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
-- Bertold Brecht
"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is
because we are not the person involved"
-- Mark Twain
Term Address: 106B Bexley Hall (617) 225-6777
Permanent Address: 214 Chung-Hsiao Rd.
Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
(04) 287-7853
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
May I make my fond excuses
For the lateness of the hour?
But we accept your invitation
And would bring you Beltane's flower.
For the May Day is the great day.
Sung along the old straight track.
And those who ancient lines did ley
Will heed this song that calls them back.
Pass the word, pass the lady,
Pass the plate to all who hunger.
Pass the wit of ancient wisdom.
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Ask the Green Man where he comes from.
Ask the cup that fills with red.
Ask the old grey standing stones
Who show the sun his way to bed.
Question all as to their ways,
And learn the secrets that they hold.
Walk the lines of Nature's palm,
Crossed with silver and with gold.
Pass the cup and pass the lady.
Pass the plate to all who hunger.
Pass the wit of ancient wisdom
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Join in black December's sadness
Lie in August's welcome corn.
Stir the cup that's ever filling
With the blood of all that's born.
But the May Day is the great day.
Sung along the old straight track.
And those who ancient lines did ley
Will heed this song that calls them back.
Pass the word and pass the lady.
Pass the plate to all who hunger.
Pass the wit of ancient wisdom
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.
"Cup of Wonder"
Jethro Tull
SONGS FROM THE WOOD
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
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At the present rate of expansion, by the end of the century, the end of a
shelf of Unix manuals will be moving at lightspeed.
..But that's okay, because they aren't carrying any information.
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What would really be helpful:
Subject: Re: Worst title
>caught my eye. It's title was LIFE: A USER'S MANUAL, and the blurbs on the
Bah. What I want is the Administrator's Manual and Configuration Guide.
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Counsel: What device do you have in your laboratory to test alcohol content?
Witness: I have a dual column gas chromatograph, Hewlett-Packard 5710A with
flame analyzation detectors.
The Court: Can you get that on mag wheels?
Witness: Only on the floor models.
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Counsel: Now, in your report under "Foundation" you indicated that there is
a minimum of cracking and no signs of settling.
Witness: Yes.
Counsel: When you say there is a minimum of cracking, I take it that you did
find some cracking.
Witness: No. Because if I said there was no cracking, I would be in court
just like this answering some stupid lawyers' questions.
So I put minimum in there to cover myself, because somebody is
going to find a crack somewhere.
The Court: I could say I would like to shake your hand, but I won't.
Counsel: Move to strike --
The Court: No. We are not going to strike it.
Counsel: Move to strike the word "stupid," Your Honor.
The Court: The most appropriate word you want stricken? It is worth the
whole trial.
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Defense counsel: The truth of the matter is that you are not an unbiased,
objective witness, isn't it? You too were shot in the fracas?
Witness: No, sir. I was shot midway between the fracas and the naval.
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Counsel: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
Witness: Yes, I have been since early childhood.
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soltario (Jose A Lopez):
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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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