[3911] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri Dec 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Fri Dec 6 01:33:56 1991
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 01:32:56 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
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Those of you who follow such things will notice that Brian's .plan
file no longer appears in this concatenation. I am working on an
enhanced Central America service that will address the privacy
concerns that have been raised by our AI-lab friends.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have
make constructive suggestions over the past few weeks. I would also
like to apologize to those who feel that I have begun engaging in
censorship. I have agnoized over this point, and have concluded
that removal from this particular database does not constitute
censorship.
Finally, I would like to express my frustration and disappointment
in those who find sinister motives in services that are intended
to be useful and friendly, and who, through heartfelt pigheadedness
and petty spite, managed to turn a pleasant social gathering into a
divisive battleground. May those who sow discord find discord in
their harvest.
\end{religious-war}
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
How to recover when your lab partner lies to you about ROM data
pinouts:
#!/afs/athena/contrib/perl/perl
while (<>) {
if (/^#/) {
print;
next;
}
chop;
@digits = split(//);
while (@digits) {
$byte = shift(@digits) . shift(@digits);
$newbyte = unpack("H2", pack("b8", unpack("B8", pack("H2", $byte))));
print "$newbyte";
}
print "\n";
}
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cardinal (Edward J Olebe):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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carla (Carla Jean Fermann):
Carla's at lunch!
New York, Long Island, Florida -- it's like the Bermuda triangle.
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
(define-key discuss-trn-mode-map "N" 'nuke-ca-entrys)
(defvar ca-nuke-regexp "ckclark")
(defun nuke-ca-entrys ()
(interactive)
(let ((ca-separator-regexp
"^---------------------------------------------------------------------------$\n\\|^--- End of Central America ---$\n")
(point-save (point)))
(goto-char (point-min))
(setq buffer-read-only nil)
(while (re-search-forward ca-separator-regexp nil t)
(if (looking-at ca-nuke-regexp)
(let ((beg-point (point)))
(re-search-forward ca-separator-regexp nil t)
(previous-line 1)
(beginning-of-line)
(delete-region beg-point (point))
(insert-string "Nuked entry\n"))))
(setq buffer-read-only t)
(goto-char point-save)))
;; For a good time, eval me and type "N".
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
He is the MELBA-BEING... the ANGEL CAKE...
XEROX him... XEROX him --
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Networks are your friends.
I can now be in my office in One Kendal Square, Ted's office, and the
SIPB office, all while sitting in front of a NeXT machine under a
chandelier in Palo Alto, California. Whee!
A Phil Collins song was crossing my mind, but I stopped it.
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gronk (Kyung S Choi):
Yeah, well, why don't you just kiss my butt, OK?
I don't want to think about it this early in life.
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
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--
My plan: To convince a certain thick-headed MOS that the relationship
is already there, so she might as well stop trying to avoid it and
enjoy it.... *Sigh*
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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 Thu Jul 16 17:14:49 EDT 1970 on host john-w-campbell .MIT.EDU
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
"...his mind is not for rent
To any god or government..."
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rnewman (Ron Newman):
Home: (617) 628-8895; 48 Kent St., Somerville MA 02143
Work: BBN, (617) 873-6339
Ban guns, not drugs.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
HIGH-TECH TARGETING
Dwarfstar's Grav Armor features laser-firing units that are not
affected by terrain between themselves and their targets... they can
fire 60 miles over any terrain.
from Murphy's Rules
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swalker (Sherrett O Walker):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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therese (Therese):
You're looking at my plan? :) I'm honored :)
Will you zwrite me too?
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tracadas (Philip W Tracadas):
Apple //gs forever!!
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vanharen (Chris `syndic' VanHaren):
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
From: flak@mcgp1.UUCP (Dan Flak)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: Re: Strange Palo Alto Traffic
Date: 3 Dec 91 21:32:10 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., Kirkland, WA
mmajka@next.com (Marc Majka) writes:
> Leaving Palo Alto on Friday. A Citabria had just landed:
[humorous story about dead seagull and buzzard deleted]
Speaking of hazards to navigation...
At Moody AFB, Ga, we used to have frequent problems with turtles
and other such critters on the runways and taxiways. We'd get
position reports on them as they'd crawl and / or slither their
way towards the active. Usually, base ops would send someone out
with a truck and armed with a long pole (if required) to
"encourage" the offending animal to return back into the swamp.
However, there was the day I was flying around and heard on
Guard, "Attention all aircraft in the vicinity of Moody Air Force
Base, runway 36 R is closed. Alligator on the runway". For some
reason, this 4 foot or so reptile thought that an 8,000 ft by 150
ft piece of concrete was the perfect spot to sun himself.
Base ops didn't have a pole long enough, and as the airman who
was normally dispatched to handle such duties pointed out,
"raslin' 'gators" wasn't in his job description.
--
The narrower the mind, the broader the statement. - Ted Cook.
Dan Flak - McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., 5400 Carillon Point
Kirkland, Wa 98033-7397, 206-828-8006, (usenet: flak%mcgp1@nwnexus.wa.com)
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