[3362] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri May 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Fri May 3 01:31:37 1991
Date: Fri, 3 May 91 01:31:06 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
From rec.humor.funny:
A letter to the editor of the Columbia (University) Daily Spectator:
"We strongly object to this misrepresentation of the rally and
further, we take issue with the word 'minority.' In our
opinion, and that of many others, 'minority' is a derogatory
term that connotes inferiority and wrongly identifies people
of color as a sub-unit within this society."
How about "differently-numbered?"
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dhbernst (David H Bernstein):
Last login:
Thu May 2 17:04:45 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):
I don't really have any plan. I just want to make as many friends
as I can. It's tough, though, since I have this habit of destroying
anything I come in contact with. I've been told it's a genetic thing
and can't be helped. I've also been told it's a stupidity thing
(which also cannot be helped.) Someone also said that it was a sexual
thing which will never be helped. I just don't understand. I try to
be just like Bruce Scruggs. I even dress like him, but I just can't
get the babes like he does. I'm very depressed. Thank you for
listening.
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dpwe (Daniel P W Ellis):
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glassw (William B Glass):
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Andy was a Catholic, the ethic ran through his bones
He lived alone with his mother, collecting gossip and toys
Every Sunday when he went to Church
He'd kneel in his pew and say, "It's just work, all that matters is work."
Andy was a lot of things, what I remember the most
He'd say, "I've got to bring home the bacon, someone's got to bring
home the roast."
He'd get to the factory early
If you'd ask him he'd tell you straight out
It's just work, the most important thing is work.
No matter what I did it never seemed enough
He said I was lazy, I said I was young.
He said, "How many songs did you write?"
I'd written zero, I lied and said, "Ten."
"You won't be young forever
You should have written fifteen"
It's work, the most important thing is work.
"You ought to make things big,
People like it that way.
And the songs with the dirty words - record them that way"
Andy liked to stir up trouble, he was funny that way.
He said, "It's just work, all that matters is work."
Andy sat down to talk one day
He said decide what you want.
Do you want to expand your parameters,
Or play museums like some dilettante.
I fired him on the spot, he got red and called me a rat.
It was the worst word he could think of,
And I've never seen him like that.
It's just work, I thought he said it's just work.
Andy's said a lot of things, I stored them all away in my head.
Sometimes when I can't decide what I should do,
I think what would Andy have said
He'd probably say you think too much,
Thats 'cause there's work you don't want to so.
It's work, the most important thing is work.
Work, the most important thing is work.
***Lou Reed, John Cale
***Songs for Drella
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huey (Darkman):
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jdmarko (Jim Davenport):
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to
get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.
See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving
the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting
that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The
college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious
and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to
rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective.
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure
interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by
opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for
himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for
boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
6.033 case study due Thursday 5/2
5/3 next set of repairs done on car
5/7 Presentation for 1.101 (gotta get those transparencies)
ANOTHER paper due for 6.033
5/9 1.101 Final Project Due
5/10 Coronation, uh inauguration of President Vest
final in 6.033
5/14 off to Virginia to find a place to live.
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Prevalent beliefs that knowledge can be tapped from previous incarnations or
from a "universal mind" (the repository of all past wisdom and creativity)
not only are implausible but also unfairly demean the stunning achievements
of individual human brains.
- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Consciousness: Implications for Psi
Phenomena", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 163-171
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mdtsai (May D Tsai):
no longer operating at N52-473b, try 354-0588
p.s. for a good time,
catch Stonehenge at
Bunratty's on 14 May 1991
look out for josh, he's the cute one... :-)
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
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
Nothing Like the Sun
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trims (Erik G Trimble):
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
"Come back to me,
stay on my island
don't ever leave..."
-Alan Parson's Project
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