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Tue Nov 26 01:51:57 1991
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 01:51:20 EST
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bart (William G Robertson):
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
(from clari.feature.miss_manners)
DEAR MISS MANNERS -- When someone brings sweet rolls to work for a
treat, is it proper for people to cut them up and leave halves, quarters
or eighths on the plate?
GENTLE READER -- Those who bring sweet rolls to work should not be
quartered, much less eighthed. They are only being nice.
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boomer (Andy K Scott):
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
Civilization is fun! Anyway, it keeps me busy!!
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dafruth (Darrell A Fruth):
My plan is to get a good job, go to grad school or law school and
then work in a third world country for progressive development. After
that I want to find a wife and start a small family by adopting a foreign
child (so we don't contribute to overpopulation). We will raise the child
on a strict vegetarian diet and educate him/her at home. Then we will
retire to a small house in the Northwest.
Other than that I am pretty clueless.
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delano (Delano J Mcfarlane):
To finger all my female friends
(over athena of course)
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dhbernst (David H Bernstein):
Last login:
Mon Nov 25 22:32:54 EST 1991
Teaching: 1.201 -- Transportation Systems Analysis
M,W 3:00 - 4:30 Room 5-217
Research: Congestion Reduction Policies
Transportation and Land-Use Interactions
Visualization and Data Management in Transportation
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dom (Dominic J Sartorio):
Dom logged out at Mon Nov 25 22:05:08 EST 1991.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
However much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!
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douzzer (Daniel G. Pouzzner):
UROP in Lab. for Comp. Sci. Spoken Language Systems,
continuing into the fall.
Home address is
Dan Pouzzner
22 Country Lane
Collinsville, CT. 06022
[for what it's good for.]
"a Woman needs a Man, like
a fish needs a bicycle.
Tryin' to throw your arms
around the world..."
-U2, being kinda
pessimistic.
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drmorris (David R. Morrison):
Article 7944 (4 more) in comp.lang.perl:
From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: Odd behavior -- is it a bug?
Date: 23 Nov 91 19:49:46 GMT
Organization: NetLabs, Inc.
Lines: 19
In article <DRW.91Nov20225125@riesz.mit.edu> drw@riesz.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
writes:
: In article <*8aHio!y3@cs.psu.edu> flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
: Part of the problem of Perl is that it's too easy to generalize
: incorrect rules.
:
: True. But remember that that is called "inconsistency".
Symmetry breaking is what makes the world an interesting place.
Dead things are consistent. Dead things are boring.
Smart things notice their context and modify their behavior. It's
harder to learn to use smart tools. It's easier to get things done
once you do learn them. Not that Perl doesn't have its share of
gratuitous inconsistencies...
Call a spade a spade, and you'll be known as a grave digger.
Larry
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chmod og+r file
is not needed in AFS ... unless you want the file to be read by ca
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dthumim (Daniel J Thumim):
Kosher Kitchen chairman (among other things)
K.K. Info for Friday night meals:
Price $8.20, includes kiddush, challah, gefilte fish, soup, salad,
main course, side dishes, and dessert. Dinner begins at 6:30.
Vegetarian or chicken meals available on request.
You must reserve by Thursday night by calling 253-2987 or 258-MENU with
validine (meal plan) or come in person to the kitchen to pay cash.
The kitchen serves dinner Monday thru Thursday from 5:00-7:00 in 50-007
(Walker basement). It's $7.30 for all-you-can-eat-within-reason, including
unlimited drinks, soup, salad, dessert. Menus available daily, call
258-MENU. Meals can be eaten in the K.K. dining room or brought upstairs
(Morss Hall), or anywhere else.
It's the best food on campus! Any more questions? Just ask me, I'm here.
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erin (Erin B Lavik):
Like waves make towards the peebled shore
So do our minutes hasten to their end....
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gadi (Dinesh A Gopinath):
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva.
Thesis Title : Stochastic Models of User Behaviour in the presence
of Dynamic Information
Key Words : Information flow, information reception, information
processing, Advanced Driver Information systems (ADIS),
Feedback response, Psychometric analysis.
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higgy (James Higginbotham):
December schedule:
I will be in the NY area between December 4 & December 6, and again
at the end of the year for the APA meetings. Otherwise I'll be
available all of December & January in Cambridge.
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honor (Andrew John Cassidy):
when i went to the bar as a very young man,
(said i to myself--said i),
i'll work on a new and original plan,
(said i to myself--said i).
w.s. gilbert
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jinx (Guillermo J Rozas):
I hardly ever use this account.
Do "finger -l jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu" for more up to date information.
Nosy people who look through other people's windows and don't like
what they see, have only themselves to blame.
Written on Mon Nov 25 15:37:48 EST 1991
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kenneths (Kenneth J. Schneider):
Address at Theta Chi: Address at Home:
528 Beacon Street 4005 Birdwell
Boston, MA 02215 Tyler, TX 75703
(617) 267-1801 ext. 142 (903) 581-0216
Last logged on Mon Nov 25 15:39:27 EST 1991 on host M11-116-10 .MIT.EDU
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lsc (Lecture Series Committee):
LSC Movies for the weekend of Nov 29 to Dec 1
No Friday Classic - Thanksgiving Holiday
Fri. Nov 29 An American Tail 26-100 8:00
In this animated film, the Mouskewitz family journeys to America and
their young son Fievel gets lost along the way. In his adventures in
the gutters of New York City, Fievel becomes a hero and is reunited
with his family.
Sat. Nov 30 Shipwrecked 26-100 8:00
Based on a favorite Norwegian story, this Disney movie tells the tale
of a young boy who discovers pirates' treasure. Before long, the
resourceful boy is defending himself against the pirates, who have
come to reclaim their stolen booty.
Sun. Dec 1 My Fair Lady 26-100 8:00
Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle, a scruffy Cockney tutored
into gentility by Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). This
excellent musical won 8 Academy Awards.
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For more information, call the LSC MovieLine, 258-8881,
or the LSC office, 253-3791.
MIT or Wellesley ID required, one guest allowed per ID.
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Classic Movie shows end before the start of the second
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lwvanels (Lucien W. Van Elsen):
633 days-
Welcome back, Sandra.
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nightowl (Heather Grove):
Dutchess MMichaela (Ursin) Rhillud Alhaellan of Dorath in Daria
"Dreams of what will never be
And faces that will never see
Dreams of what will never be."
10/23/91
**moved to Random Hall new address and phone #:
Random 213
225-9116
"I'm a child of the air
I'm a witch of the wind
And I'm still wide awake...
Beware my friends as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare my friends to follow me"
---Megadeth "Mary Jane"
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paul (Paul Boutin):
"I was going to get you a Queen poster, but the only one they had was
them running around in their underwear doing really gay things".
- my brother, Christmas 1977
RIP Freddie Mercury 1946-1991, after a career of running around in his
underwear doing really gay things before Madonna had ever even thought
of it. My favorite bad influence from my teen years, and the cause of
endless grief to my parents who insisted that that music was making me
crazy.
Another one bites the dust, hey hey...
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rnewman (Ron Newman):
Home: (617) 628-8895; 48 Kent St., Somerville MA 02143
Work: BBN, (617) 873-6339
The recent case of Forrest Carter, the author of the best-selling
"Education of Little Tree", provided yet another occasion to reflect
on the troublesome role of authenticity. Billed as a true story,
Carter's book was written as the autobiography of Little Tree,
orphaned at the age of 10, who learns the ways of Indians from his
Cherokee grandparents in Tennessee. "The Education of Little Tree,"
which has sold more than 600,000 copies, received an award from the
American Booksellers Association as the title booksellers most enjoyed
selling. It was sold on the gift tables of Indian reservations and
assigned as supplementary reading for courses on Native American
literature. Major studios vied for movie rights.
And the critics loved it.... One poet and storyteller of Abnaki
descent hailed it as a masterpiece--"one of the finest American
autobiographies ever written"--that captured the unique vision of
Native American culture. It was, he wrote blissfully, "like a
Cherokee basket, woven out of the materials given by nature, simple
and strong in its design, capable of carrying a great deal." A critic
in The (Santa Fe) New Mexican told his readers: "I have come on
something that is good, so good I want to shout `Read this! It's
beautiful. It's real.' "
Or was it?
To the embarrassment of the book's admirers, Dan T. Carter, a history
professor at Emory University, unmasked "Forrest Carter" as a
pseudonym for the late Asa Earl Carter, whom he described as "a Ku
Klux Klan terrorist, right-wing radio announcer, home-grown American
fascist and anti-Semite, rabble-rousing demagogue and secret author of
the famous 1963 speech by Gov. George Wallace of Alabama: `Segregation
now...Segregation tomorrow...Segregation forever.' " Forget Pee-wee
Herman--try explaining this one to the kids.
-- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
'Authenticity,' or the Lesson of Little Tree
NYT Book Review, 11/24/91
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
The Pagan Coalition for Traditional Values
The newspapers recently have been full of stories about fundamentalist
groups, with names like The Traditional Values Council, protesting school
curricula. High on the list of targets are the so-called "Self Esteem
Programs." The fundamentalists feel that developing self-esteem is very
bad for children, presumably because it might prevent the children from
growing up to be fundamentalists. Sex education is also Very Bad, as is
anything that doesn't fit with what they call 'traditional values'.
Groups all over are trying to resist the tide of fundamentalist
extremism. I say we Pagans should go on the offensive. Why let the
fundamentalists think they're the only ones with traditional values? Our
culture and values go way back, and include traditions such as sexual
equality, perfect love and trust, and never being able to get an entire coven
to show up at the same time on the same night. I propose that we form the
Pagan Coalition for Traditional Values, with the following items as starting
points:
Multiple Gods. In contrast to the fundamentalists, who insist that there is
only One True God and we're all going to burn in hell unless we worship all
three of them, _we_ have an ancient heritage of polytheistic tolerance,
which we should push for all it's worth. We should stand up and proudly
proclaim: "The Goddess has ten thousand names, and nobody knows how to
pronounce any of them correctly." Because that's what makes us great--we
don't _care_ about pronouncing any of them correctly. Except for the
fam/trads, and nobody listens to them anyway.
Nudity. Respect for the sacredness of the human body is a cornerstone of
our religion, and nudity laws are an outrage (except insofar as they apply to
Jim and Tammy Bakker). I look forward to seeing the newspaper reports
once the protests start: "Artemis Moonbeam of Cerridwen's Compost
Collective Farm told reporters, 'We don't want our kids to have to wear
clothes at school. We think it's very damaging to their self-esteem to have
to cover themselves up like that.' She is currently pressing her case in the
Arkansas Supreme Court, which is expected to rule on possible infringement
of religious freedom, hinging on the interpretation of the phrase 'Ye shall be
naked in your rites'--whether this covers major sporting events, rock
concerts, etc."
Traditional Agriculture. We should lobby the Department of Agriculture to
subsidize traditional Pagan farming methods. By this I mean, of course,
having orgies in the fields to encourage the crops to grow. _Newsweek_
recently reported that current policies are causing large numbers of
Americans to give up farming; maybe this would turn things around.
Pagan Diet. Getting Pagan dietary values adopted by the general public could
be very difficult, mostly because nobody knows what they _are_. On the one
side we have vegetarians, vegans, and fruitarians, and on the other side we
have those who believe that the Horned God, Lord of the Hunt, isn't into
rabbit food. Debate also rages over the interpretation of the phrase "Nor do
I demand sacrifice," which some take to mean that animals should not be
killed, while others take it to mean that no one should ever have to eat tofu.
I think this would be a great start. We should tell the pushers of
organized religion to watch out, as disorganized religion is coming into its
own. We could form the Pagan Coalition for Traditional Values right away--
if we could get anyone to show up for the meeting.
(c) 1991 Ilana D.
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starbuck (Hoang H Tran):
I have no plans.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
WHAT IS IT?
In Avalon Hill's Starship Troopers, the Terran player's units cannot
distinguish between tanks and infantry at a distance of one mile.
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will Withstand
I say love is the seventh wave..
-- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
Eleanor Rigby
Sits at the keyboard
And waits for a line on the screen
Lives in a dream
Waits for a signal
Finding some code
That will make the machine do some more.
What is it for?
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
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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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