[3996] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Jan 12
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Jan 12 01:28:01 1992
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 92 01:27:30 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ankleand (The Analog Kid):
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
I'm changing the CHANNEL.. But all I get is commercials
for ``RONCO MIRACLE BAMBOO STEAMERS''!
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mhbraun (Matthew Braun):
It's not easy love, But you've go friends you can trust,
Friends will be friends,
When you're in need of love they give you care and attention.
Friends will be friends,
When you're through with life and all hope is lost,
Hold out your hand cos friends will be friends right to the end.
-Queen
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sctse (Clifford Tse):
Away from MIT Jan - Sept 1992.
Address:
System Sciences Lab
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
TEL#: (415)812-4881
FAX#: (415)812-4334
email: tse@parc.xerxo.com
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
Reasons Why a Slide Rule (and Paper Pad) is Better Than an X Workstation
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- A Slide Rule doesn't shut down abruptly when it gets too hot.
- One hundred people all using Slide Rules and Paper Pads do not
start wailing and screaming due to a single-point failure.
- A Slide Rule doesn't smoke whenever the power supply hiccups.
- A Slide Rule doesn't care if you smoke, or hiccup.
- You can spill coffee on a Slide Rule; you can use a Slide Rule
while _completely_submerged_ in coffee.
- You never get nasty system messages about filling up your entire
paper quota with pointless GIF pictures for the root window.
- A Slide Rule and Paper Pad fit in a briefcase with space left over
for lunch or a change of underwear.
- A properly used Slide Rule can perform pipelined *and* parallel
operations. (Okay, you need a guru for this.)
- You don't get junk mail offering pricey software upgrades that
fix current floating point errors while introducing new ones.
- A Slide Rule doesn't need scheduled hardware maintenance.
- A Paper Pad supports text and graphics images easily, and can be
easily upgraded from monochrome to color.
- Slide Rules are designed to a standardized, open architecture.
- You can hold a Slide Rule at arm's length, to hit the obnoxious
person at the next seat over.
- a Slide Rule is immune to viruses, worms, and other depradations
from hostile adolescents with telephones.
- Additional Paper Pads can be integrated into the system seamlessly
and without needing to reconfigure everything.
- Nobody will make you feel bad by introducing a smaller, faster,
cheaper slide rule next month.
from the frustrated, system-crashed desk of
bob,mon.
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"What was the topic?" "It was `Do Men Dominate Conversations'."
"What did the men say?" "They demanded that it wasn't so."
"What did the women say?" "They couldn't get a word in edge-wise."
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
PEST CONTROL
Top Secret, by TSR Hobbies, list the Termite bomb as one of the
equipment items secret agents can use. (Thermite is a little more
deadly, but at least they have the bugs under control.)
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade
- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
--- End of Central America ---
