[4059] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Feb 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Feb 6 01:27:10 1992
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 01:26:13 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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bert (Green Gnome):
The gnome, all clad in green, leads you through the door of the hut
and sits in front of a clear crystal sphere. His eyes are closing,
fingertips touching the sphere, symbols of pure sunlight forming
in the misty air: and you hear words, coming from nowhere, deep,
resounding sounds spoken in a strange, distant tongue. You feel
your mind losing its balance, strange sounds soaking it like good wine.
The gnome turns, his gaze touching yours, his eyes gleaming like green
gems. You look and see words glowing deep down in his pupils with the
glint of ancient gold:
FINALLY FINISH HACKING MY DOTFILES
START HACKING ELISP
CONVERT TO GWM
PLAY WITH NEAT HOLOGRAMS
For a moment, you feel a trace of understanding, and then everything
is lost again...
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bonk (David B Pecora):
To pan a pandemic plan is pure, prolific pandering.
Post a pangenic, perfect palliative and purge prolixity.
Pump purple proteins to perform professionally.
Pank you very much.
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
Xerox your lunch and file it under ``sex offenders!''
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diego (James S Chang):
Mailing Address:
528 Beacon St.
Boston, MA 02215
Telephone: (617) 267-1801
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Things I'm doing:
1) Hacking Linux. (It installed cleanly on my 486/40, now to start
building things....)
2) planning an IKEA run...
3) Finding a date for the Valentine's Dance on 15 Feb. (Noone yet,
but I'll certainly go anyway.) Trying to decide if I should rent a tux :-)
Long term...
1) get a machine up on the 44.193.xxx.xxx net. (Ok, *real* long
term...)
Lyrics:
I don't wanna cry no more...
I don't wanna live with the heartache
beating down my door
I don't wanna cry no more...
Love is like a knife, cutting deeper inside...
[simple lyrics, really cool rock beat, lots of guitar... but I have yet to
find out who sings it (and if they have an album...)]
Right Now...
What? I'm not logged in? I may be trying to actually get work done.
(617)494-1068 rings on my desk; eichin@CYGNUS.COM likewise (mail to
me should still go to Athena unless (1) it is Cygnus business (2) it
is something you really want me to see *now* in which case send it to
both places...)
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hdgrogan (Helene D Grogan):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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hftsai (Harry F Tsai):
Last login at Wed Feb 05 19:15:45 EST 1992
On host m37-332-8.MIT.EDU
Logged out at Wed Feb 05 21:09:35 EST 1992
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hwlee (Hyunwoo Lee):
Usual Schedule:
During Weekdays---
9am-noon:Class(Tue. Thu.) or Hayden
noon- 1pm:Lunch
1pm- 4pm:Class(Tue. Thu.),Computer Cluster(14S or W20) or Seminar
4pm- 6pm:Office(Mon.),Colloqium(Thu.),Computer Cluster or Hayden
6pm- 8pm:Dinner
8pm- :Home or ???
Weekends----------
-noon:Home
noon- 1pm:Lunch(Sat. Classic or Sun. Special)
1pm- 6pm:???
6pm- 8pm:Dinner
8pm- :Home or ???
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jcb (Jeff Bigler):
Seen on the morris@suvm.bitnet list:
"Sex, like Morris dancing, is one of those activities which are
perfectly serious to the participants, but hilarious to the
onlooker. It is surprising really how much sex we get on television
and how little Morris dancing"
Nancy Banks-Smith
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jh (Joseph Harrington):
I'm currently in Hawaii getting data for my thesis. I should be back at MIT
in May. Here's how to contact me:
finger/talk: jh@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
email: if at MIT keep sending to jh@mit.edu
all others can send to jh@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
(but remember to change it back in May when this file says to;
you can keep sending to jh@mit.edu if you want and it will forward)
phone: 808-956-6989 work
808-988-6990 home
808-942-0672 fallback emergency friends who might be able to reach me
808-935-7606 observers' residence (during observing run only)
808-935-9347 telescope (during observing run at night only)
US mail: Joe Harrington
Institute for Astronomy
2680 Woodlawn Drive
Honolulu, HI 96822
Next observing runs: Fri 7 Feb - Mon 10 Feb
Tue 25 Feb - Fri 28 Feb
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Office: 608-3 Evans, x2-1863
Home phone: +1 (510) 525-7984
Spring 1992 regular stuff:
M 10-12 CS292J MTWRF
F 11-1 CS267 10 X
W 12-1 OS lunch seminar 10:30 X
T R 12:30-2 CS267 11 X X
T R 2-3:30 CS268 11:30 X X
R 3:30-? Systems seminar (sometimes) 12 X X
W 3:30-? CS Donut time 12:30 XXXX
1 X X
1:30 X X
2 X X
2:30 X X
3 X X
3:30 X.
4 .
4:30 .
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Have you rented a beer lately?
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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 Wed Feb 5 19:06:28 EST 1992 on host M66-080-14 .MIT.EDU
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lei (Lei Wu):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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mczody (Michael C. Zody):
Stratomatic Hockey 1991-92
Team W L T Pts GIH
Chicago 19 12 3 41 -
Boston 13 7 1 27 13
Montreal 15 9 3 33 7
NY Rangers 10 17 3 23 4
Los Angeles 5 9 1 11 19
Detroit 3 11 1 7 19
Missing Stats:
CHI 3 @ DET 2: CHI stats
MON 3 @ BOS 4: MON stats
DET 6 @ MON 1: MON stats
MON 4 @ DET 3: MON stats
MON 4 @ CHI 4: MON stats
CHI 0 @ MON 4: MON stats
CHI 3 @ DET 1: DET stats
CHI: two games, probably the unknown MON games
MON: two games, probably the unknown CHI games
Away: BOS CHI DET LAK MON NYR Record
Home: -------------------------------------------
BOS 4-0 5-2 5-8 0-3 6-5-0
1-2 4-2 5-8
2-3 3-4 4-2
7-4
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CHI 3-1 2-7 0-4 4-2 3-2 6-8-3
6-1 3-1 5-6 MdC 1-4
4-1 3-4 3-2 4-4
3-3 4-4 3-7
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DET 7-3 2-0 3-3 6-3 0-8-1
3-2 4-3
5-2 3-2
3-1
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LAK 6-3 1-7 4-1 3-3 2-5-1
5-3 7-0 0-1
5-4
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MON 0-1 3-2 6-1 3-2 5-4 5-5-1
3-2 MdC 1-4
0-4 1-2
5-5
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NYR 2-1 6-2 2-4 2-3 3-2 5-10-0
3-2 5-1 5-2 2-4
3-4 2-1 5-2 2-7
2-0 2-0
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BOS CHI DET LAK MON NYR
Record 7-2-1 13-4-0 3-3-0 3-4-0 10-4-1 5-7-3
League-wide: 41 road wins, 24 home wins
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mkgray (Matthew K Gray):
I've moved to MacGregor G221
My phone number is (617)225-9241
Visit me. Call me. Give my life meaning.
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Here are my classes so you can follow me around
if you are really really really really bored
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1.00 Lec MWF 13 1 10-250
1.00 Rec W 16 1 1-277
8.022 Lec TR 14 1.5 6-120
8.022 Rec MW 11 1 12-142
18.03 Lec MWF 10 1 2-190
18.03 Rec W 15 1 2-143
24.07 Lec MW 14 1 26-310
24.07 Rec F 14 1 26-210
Fencing Class TR 13 1 DuPont
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Have you heard about the new Ronald Reagan
typerwriter?
No colon and no memory.
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pevzner (Boris Pevzner):
2Bprepared
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srz (Stan Zanarotti):
I went to college and it was okay
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
CUTTING MISTAKES
In a 30-minute Runequest battle (Chaosium) involving 6,000 armored,
experienced warriors using Great Axes, more than 150 men will decapitate
themselves and another 600 will chop off their own arms or legs.
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
Beethoven's gone but his music lives on
and Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
and Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and
love whiles composing their long symphony.
But one hundred and fifty years later
there's very little of them left to see.
The decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven
but Beethoven cannot hear you.
H{ndel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
But nowadays no one will serve them
and their grave it is left to conceal.
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
with their highly original sound.
The pianos like Pleyel does still working
but thereabout six feet under ground.
The decomposing composers.
There's less of them every year.
You can say what you like to Debussy
but there's not much of him left to hear.
Claude Achille Debussy. Died 1918.
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Died 1787.
Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well 1825. Died 1826.
Giacomo Meyerbeer. Still alive 1863. Not still alive 1864.
Modest Musorgski. 1880 going to parties. No fun any more 1881.
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
[part 2 of 2]
Have you ever beaten
0251 ... Moria 4.8?
0252 ... Rogue 3.6?
0253 ... Rogue 5.3?
0254 ... Larn?
0255 ... Hack 1.0.3?
0256 ... Nethack 2.4?
0257 Can you get a better score on Rogue than Rogomatic?
0258 Have you ever solved Adventure?
0259 ... Zork?
0261 Have you ever written an adventure program?
0262 ... a real-time game?
0263 ... a multi-player game?
0264 ... a networked game?
0265 Can you out-doctor Eliza?
* Hardware
0266 Have you ever used a light pen?
0267 ... did you build it?
Have you ever used
0268 ... a teletype?
0269 ... a paper tape?
0270 ... a decwriter?
0271 ... a card reader/punch?
0272 ... a SOL?
Have you ever built
0273 ... an Altair?
0274 ... a Heath/Zenith computer?
Do you know how to use
0275 ... an oscilliscope?
0276 ... a voltmeter?
0277 ... a frequency counter?
0278 ... a logic probe?
0279 ... a wirewrap tool?
0280 ... a soldering iron?
0281 ... a logic analyzer?
0282 Have you ever designed an LSI chip?
0283 ... has it been fabricated?
0284 Have you ever etched a printed circuit board?
* Historical
0285 Have you ever toggled in boot code on the front panel?
0286 ... from memory?
0287 Can you program an Eniac?
0288 Ever seen a 90 column card?
* IBM
0289 Do you recite IBM part numbers in your sleep?
0290 Do you know what IBM part number 7320154 is?
0291 Do you understand 3270 data streams?
0292 Do you know what the VM privilege classes are?
0293 Have you IPLed an IBM off the tape drive?
0294 ... off a card reader?
0295 Can you sing something from the IBM Songbook?
* Languages
0296 Do you know more than 4 programming languages?
0297 ... 8 languages?
0298 ... 16 languages?
0299 ... 32 languages?
0300 Have you ever designed a programming language?
0301 Do you know what Basic stands for?
0302 ... Pascal?
0303 Can you program in Basic?
0304 ... Do you admit it?
0305 Can you program in Cobol?
0306 ... Do you deny it?
0307 Do you know Pascal?
0308 ... Modula-2?
0309 ... Oberon?
0310 ... More that two Wirth languages?
0311 ... Can you recite a Nicklaus Wirth joke?
0312 Do you know Algol-60?
0313 ... Algol-W?
0314 ... Algol-68?
0315 ... Do you understand the Algol-68 report?
0316 ... Do you like two-level grammars?
0317 Can you program in assembler on 2 different machines?
0318 ... on 4 different machines?
0319 ... on 8 different machines?
Do you know
0320 ... APL?
0321 ... Ada?
0322 ... BCPL?
0323 ... C++?
0324 ... C?
0325 ... Comal?
0326 ... Eiffel?
0327 ... Forth?
0328 ... Fortran?
0329 ... Hypertalk?
0330 ... Icon?
0331 ... Lisp?
0332 ... Logo?
0333 ... MIIS?
0334 ... MUMPS?
0335 ... PL/I?
0336 ... Pilot?
0337 ... Plato?
0338 ... Prolog?
0339 ... RPG?
0340 ... Rexx (or ARexx)?
0341 ... SETL?
0342 ... Smalltalk?
0343 ... Snobol?
0344 ... VHDL?
0345 ... any assembly language?
0346 Can you talk VT-100?
0347 ... Postscript?
0348 ... SMTP?
0349 ... UUCP?
0350 ... English?
* Micros
0351 Ever copy a copy-protected disk?
0352 Ever create a copy-protection scheme?
0353 Have you ever made a "flippy" disk?
0354 Have you ever recovered data from a damaged disk?
0355 Ever boot a naked floppy?
* Networking
0356 Have you ever been logged in to two different timezones at once?
0357 Have you memorized the UUCP map for your country?
0358 ... For any country?
0359 Have you ever found a sendmail bug?
0360 ... Was it a security hole?
0361 Have you memorized the HOSTS.TXT table?
0362 ... Are you up to date?
0363 Can you name all the top-level nameservers and their addresses?
0364 Do you know RFC-822 by heart?
0365 ... Can you recite all the errors in it?
0366 Have you written a Sendmail configuration file?
0367 ... Does it work?
0368 ... Do you mumble "defocus" in your sleep?
0369 Do you know the max packet lifetime?
* Operating systems
Can you use
0370 ... BSD Unix?
0371 ... non-BSD Unix?
0372 ... AIX
0373 ... VM/CMS?
0374 ... VMS?
0375 ... MVS?
0376 ... VSE?
0377 ... RSTS/E?
0378 ... CP/M?
0379 ... COS?
0380 ... NOS?
0381 ... CP-67?
0382 ... RT-11?
0383 ... MS-DOS?
0384 ... Finder?
0385 ... PRODOS?
0386 ... more than one OS for the TRS-80?
0387 ... Tops-10?
0388 ... Tops-20?
0389 ... OS-9?
0390 ... OS/2?
0391 ... AOS/VS?
0392 ... Multics?
0393 ... ITS?
0394 ... Vulcan?
0395 Have you ever paged or swapped off a tape drive?
0396 ... Off a card reader/punch?
0397 ... Off a teletype?
0398 ... Off a networked (non-local) disk?
0399 Have you ever found an operating system bug?
0400 ... Did you exploit it?
0401 ... Did you report it?
0402 ... Was your report ignored?
0403 Have you ever crashed a machine?
0404 ... Intentionally?
* People
0405 Do you know any people?
0406 ... more than one?
0407 ... more than two?
* Personal
0408 Are your shoelaces untied?
0409 Do you interface well with strangers?
0410 Are you able to recite phone numbers for half-a-dozen computer systems
but unable to recite your own?
0411 Do you log in before breakfast?
0412 Do you consume more than LD-50 caffeine a day?
0413 Do you answer either-or questions with "yes"?
0414 Do you own an up-to-date copy of any operating system manual?
0415 ... *every* operating system manual?
0416 Do other people have difficulty using your customized environment?
0417 Do you dream in any programming languages?
0418 Do you have difficulty focusing on three-dimensional objects?
0419 Do you ignore mice?
0420 Do you despise the CAPS LOCK key?
0421 Do you believe menus belong in restaurants?
0422 Do you have a Mandelbrot hanging on your wall?
0423 Have you ever decorated with magnetic tape or punched cards?
0424 Do you have a disk platter or a naked floppy hanging in your home?
0425 Have you ever seen the dawn?
0426 ... Twice in a row?
0427 Do you use "foobar" in daily conversation?
0428 ... "bletch"?
0429 Do you use the "P convention"?
0430 Do you automatically respond to any user question with RTFM?
0431 ... Do you know what it means?
0432 Do you think garbage collection means memory management?
0433 Do you have problems allocating horizontal space in your room/office?
0434 Do you read Scientific American in bars to pick up women?
0435 Is your license plate computer-related?
0436 Have you ever taken the Purity test?
0437 Ever have an out-of-CPU experience?
0438 Have you ever set up a blind date over the computer?
0439 Do you talk to the person next to you via computer?
* Programming
0440 Can you write a Fortran compiler?
0441 ... In TECO?
0442 Can you read a machine dump?
0443 Can you disassemble code in your head?
Have you ever written
0444 ... a compiler?
0445 ... an operating system?
0446 ... a device driver?
0447 ... a text processor?
0448 ... a display hack?
0449 ... a database system?
0450 ... an expert system?
0451 ... an edge detector?
0452 ... a real-time control system?
0453 ... an accounting package?
0454 ... a virus?
0455 ... a prophylactic?
0456 Have you ever written a biorhythm program?
0457 ... Did you sell the output?
0458 ... Was the output arbitrarily invented?
0459 Have you ever computed pi to more than a thousand decimal places?
0460 ... the number e?
0461 Ever find a prime number of more than a hundred digits?
0462 Have you ever written self-modifying code?
0463 ... Are you proud of it?
0464 Did you ever write a program that ran correctly the first time?
0465 ... Was it longer than 20 lines?
0466 ... 100 lines?
0467 ... Was it in assembly language?
0468 ... Did it work the second time?
0469 Can you solve the Towers of Hanoi recursively?
0470 ... Non-recursively?
0471 ... Using the Troff text formatter?
0472 Ever submit an entry to the Obfuscated C code contest?
0473 ... Did it win?
0474 ... Did your entry inspire a new rule?
0475 Do you know Duff's device?
0476 Do you know Jensen's device?
0477 Ever spend ten minutes trying to find a single-character error?
0478 ... More than an hour?
0479 ... More than a day?
0480 ... More than a week?
0481 ... Did the first person you show it to find it immediately?
* Unix
0482 Can you use Berkeley Unix?
0483 .. Non-Berkeley Unix?
0484 Can you distinguish between sections 4 and 5 of the Unix manual?
0485 Can you find TERMIO in the System V release 2 documentation?
0486 Have you ever mounted a tape as a Unix file system?
0487 Have you ever built Minix?
0488 Can you answer "quiz function ed-command" correctly?
0489 ... How about "quiz ed-command function"?
* Usenet
0490 Do you read news?
0491 ... More than 32 newsgroups?
0492 ... More than 256 newsgroups?
0493 ... All the newsgroups?
0494 Have you ever posted an article?
0495 ... Do you post regularly?
0496 Have you ever posted a flame?
0497 ... Ever flame a cross-posting?
0498 ... Ever flame a flame?
0499 ... Do you flame regularly?
0500 Ever have your program posted to a source newsgroup?
0501 Ever forge a posting?
0502 Ever form a new newsgroup?
0503 ... Does it still exist?
0504 Do you remember
0505 ... mod.ber?
0506 ... the Stupid People's Court?
0507 ... Bandy-grams?
* Phreaking
0508 Have you ever built a black box?
0509 Can you name all of the 'colors' of boxes?
0510 ... and their associated functions?
0511 Does your touch tone phone have 16 DTMF buttons on it?
0512 Did the breakup of MaBell create more opportunities for you?
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