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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Mon Sep 16 01:31:58 1991
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 01:31:23 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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celine (Rob F):
{From system: This user is a banana}
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
I got this letter from an old friend of mine. Names have been blotted
to protect the foolish.
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Last night, I wrote this letter to XXXXX, but I thought it was too weird
for any sane individual. That's why I am sending to all of you.
Dear XXXXX,
Haven't heard from you in a long time, so I assume that you are either touring
with the Dead or are dead. If you fail to respond to this note, I will send
flowers and condolences to your family.
I enjoyed meeting your family and hope that they are well. Nothing new with me.
I am feeling perfectly well, except I still have recurrent dreams of playing
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in a vat of bacon bits. Oh, and I also have a
foot long weasel growing out of my navel. As if my room wasn't crowded enough.
Anyway, the weasel, who goes by the name Yankel, has a long , frazzled beard
and wears a yarmulke and tsitzes. At first, I wasn't bothered by his presence.
I am always willing to allow strange individuals to share my bed.
After several intense philosophical discussions that lasted into the wee
hours of the night (bet you like the word wee), I even enjoyed his
companionship. Not only does he have a mind to rival Solomon's, but he makes
Kreplach that could make you plotz with pleasure. Nevertheless, Yankel has an
annoying habit of chanting the mourner's kaddish and repeating the the story
of Moses leading the children of Israel from the land of Egypt. He has been
particularly troublesome during this high holiday period. Moreover, he
incessantly complained about my disregard of Kosher laws and traditional Jewish
practices.
I am sorry to burden you with my troubles, but I thought that since
you are in med school you may know how to rid me of this particular affliction
or know of someone or could. I am getting worried. In a few weeks, I am going
to job interviews. What kind of ob am I going to get? "Here's our new
math wiz - the guy with the foot long Hassidic weasel sticking out of him."
Keep in touch,
YYYYY
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
>> This should go in a Frequently Asked Questions file:
>> Read "Password Security: A Case History", Robert Morris and Ken Thompson,
>> Communications of the ACM, November 1979 V22, #11, p594-597.
>> This discusses how Unix passwords work and the reasons for selecting that
>> method.
>> (Note that Robert Morris above is the father of Robert "The Worm" Morris.)
Robert "The Worm" Morris? sounds like a 1920's gangster. As it should. :-)
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rdshydur (Richard D Shyduroff):
The E-Club, aka: The MIT Entrepreneur's Club, Tuesdays at 6pm in 66-144!
[To be added to our e-mail_list: "e-club" please e-mail particulars
to <e-club-request> or leave a v-mail message on x3-2000 at any time].
The E-Club:
The E-Club, open to the entire MIT Community, meets every Tuesday
at 6pm in 66-144, for new business start-up idea presentations, followed
by reviews, crits and possibly in-depth brainstorming and debugging
at 7pm in adjacent 66-148. Come prepared to present a 3 to 10 minute
synopsis of your new idea, or come to listen and help provide immediate
feedback, or to find team members for start-ups and or current $10k
Student Competition.
Projects:
Projects in The E-Club include ongoing organisational development,
search for long-term new student and faculty members/advisors, new and
relevant topics for _The E-Club Newsletter_ and additional advisors
and editors for the proposed quarterly journal, _The E-Club Review_.
X3-2000 ... Enhanced Information Tree:
We are also developing a voice-mail "enhanced information tree" which
will provide access by touch-tone phone to $10k Competition guidelines,
start-up-team members' profiles, projects & jobs availability and an
MIT Alum professional networking message center.
1-900-MIT-NERD:
The proposed [DON'T CALL IT YET!] "1-900-MIT-NERD" MIT history, stories,
trivia, consulting service and 24-hour-per-day local-and-global-problems
hot-line plans to provide the outside world with a consulting-fee-paid-
in-advance information service covering all-and-everything. The service
should be great fun to participate in both as a designer and as a paid
consultant, from undergraduate to alum. Details of the concept will be
covered as they develop, in each regular meeting of the Club. If you
have experience with on-line customer support services, methods or ideas
for methods for filtering queries and sending callers to the correct
resource [a student or other consultant "logged-in-when-available" to a
voice-mail-forwarding-routine in an information-tree-structure resident
in MIT's AT&T 5E Digital Switch, aka, The 5ESS], please e-mail us here
or call us at x3-2000.
Project Co-Lab: [DRAFT]
... comments on the following appreciated ...
We are proposing to design, build, administrate and operate a kind of
"Collaborative Laboratory" [Co-Lab] on campus where face-to-face, in-
the-flesh, as well as networked conferencing [specifically brainstorming]
may take place. The environment will provide participants with large-
scale HDTV display-workstations and a common-view, partially-in-the-
round very-large-scale-seamless-HDTV-display approximating the feeling
and display possibilities of a classic OMNIMAX theatre with interactive
multimedia access to local archival and developing knowledge bases.
Although the original intent of the Co-Lab idea as a tool to enhance
brainstorming in a *memorable space* remains, there has coincidently
been commentary on the idea that suggests that such an environment
should be developed to provide MIT visitors of all sorts, from parents,
and returning alum to corporate sponsors, prospective students and
visiting school kids with a special place to go where they will
be able to call up, especially, demos of demos from around Campus.
Demo documentation exists in a variety of formats, and all could be
easily ported from their respective archives to The Co-Lab. Recorded
materials include books and text, scrap and lab notes, vintage film
and video, video disks of stills, CD-ROM libraries of a current nature,
everything relevant and accessible of a campus information nature on
Athena/IS/MITNet, and prototypes of Movies of The Future, multimedia
and hints at virtual reality approaches to automating the process of
providing demos to visitors. Another way to describe the proposed
Co-Lab space is to think of it as an interactive museum-kind-of
diorama of Media Lab and world-class quality, where the experience of
being in a lab, meeting with a researcher and participating in an
experiment comprise the purpose of this demo-ing engine.
Visitors might *use* the Lab in as naive-a-user mode as they prefer,
and at minimum, simply observe a carefully scripted presentation of
what MIT has been about, what it is about today, and what's going on
generally, with an option to see a visual schedule of events and
to choose from a menu a variety of text-and-visual-images to send to
a color Xerographic "vending machine" which will print, collate and
Velo-bind a visitor's personal "souvenir" booklet, at some cost of
course, and at just the right moment, suggest where food and other
relief services may be obtained. This latter function assumes
that the Co-Lab includes in its repertoir of computational abilities
the option of polling visitors' own communications protocols as
they negotiate, even play games with, the demo-machine. In this
way, the Co-Lab "redesigns" itself for the range of visitors and
their interests and levels of interest. It prepares from it's
growing knowledge base derived from visitor interactions over time,
another repertoir
The more interested visitor, perhaps a corporate sponsor or group
visiting by way of The Industrial Liaison Program [ILP] from any
country could exploit the Co-Lab to the fullest, making their tour
that much more efficient and entertaining by being able to browse
the entire Institute and then "visit" some specific department,
center, lab or other project or personage in virtual mode.
Students, principal researchers and faculty would appear in the
best possible holographic-video mode, as in the ongoing work being
done in The Media Lab, or at least in human-scale HDTV quality and
magnitude to give visitors as close a feeling to experiencing their
presence as possible ... thus greatly reducing demo-load across
campus while providing the entire MIT Community with a special
environment where many multi-media conferencing components could
be brought together in one useful project.
# exploit the space;
# browsing;
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therese (Therese):
Sooner or later just like the world first day
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
History will teach us nothing.
-- Sting
Nothing Like the Sun
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tsalamon (Todd R Salamon):
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time,
dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity,
and can believe nothing else.
-Pascal
If you seek it you can not find it.
-ancient Zen proverb
How can you think and hit at the same time?
-Yogi Berra
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wslee (Whay Sing Lee):
Move on, move on, never look back. That is the way of life.
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Address: Box 52, 3 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Tel: (617)225-6211 (H) (617)253-6048 (W)
Alternate e-mail address : wslee@ai.mit.edu
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-->> Sun Sep 15 17:27:46 EDT 1991
-->> I am loggen on now at wslee@M66-080-16.mit.edu
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xiaoming (Xiaoming Zhang):
{From system: This user's .plan file contains too many control characters}
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