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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Apr 2 01:24:23 1992
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 01:23:52 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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aras (Sheldon Robinson):
Should I or must I not? I guess I'm in a state of debate right now
over whether I could actually live a normal life and be happy with
myself in that life? Normal lives seem to have worked for many people
in the past. I don't see it working for me though, for reasons that are
difficult to explain in a little dot-plan file. If I do decide that the
normal life is possible for me, then that is what I must to do! If I
decide against it, then I must also decide what it is that I want to get
out of this life? It would be something along the lines of complete
destruction of the world as we know it to make the lives of generations
coming after us better. Why should they have to go through the same
muck I did and my little brother still is and my little sister will be
soon if she isn't already? It's a...well, I am black.
You can call me Sheldude, Sheldon, Sheldaze, but I really like the name
Shell. It's a much simpler name, the way I like to be. Hmmm...now
should I include a quick description of myself? Well, I'm kind of
average height, very thin making me about 140 pounds at my best. I like
biking and ultimate and running. I've tried lifting, but found it too
boring being inside when you do it. The perfect day would be 100 degrees
with no humidity on a beach somewhere so you could jump in the water and
cool off or just relax out in the sun with a nice breeze blowing in over
the water right over your slightly moist skin...hmmmmm.
I come from D.C. Yes, I know it's the murder capitol of the world, or
something like that. It's actually not a bad place to live, and I don't
live in the city anymore. I live in a small college town to the north of
the city. D.C. is still my real home. Right now, I live at quiet East
Campus, fifth east. I'm majoring in computer science and really should
have stayed with my first choice of mechanical engineering. Actually, I
like my writing classes the best, so I might decide to switch to a
writing major...soon. I'm really more into writing and photography and
just playing piano on a Sunday afternoon than any of this MIT stuff. I
guess I really want out, but haven't actually told anyone yet. Funny I
would put that here. Oh well. If you read this, I hope that you will
understand.
Ummm...I'm black as I said already, but I'm really more unique than
that color entitles me in this society. I was raised very spoiled and
probably "whiter" than you were no matter who you are. I like to listen
to classic rock and classical music. For years, I though I liked to
listen to the music between those two extremes, but really can't find much
that I like on the top 40 anymore. There are a lot of movies that I like
and I could tell you all about. There are a lot of books I've read that
I like too. Can't quite remember the names any though...pooh :-)
Well, I think I ought to stop writing now, becuase you're probably not
even reading this anymore or I've bored you to death and you've fallen
asleep on the keyboard or something. Anyway, that's me :-) How are you?
Please send me some e-mail or something if you have the time? I like
talking to other people :-)
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bosco (Paul Bosco):
Reachable at 253-2985 or 203-783-7093 - Thank you!
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Things I'm doing:
Waiting.
Long term...
Thinking.
Lyrics:
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 13:27:00 EST
From: Mark Bartelt <sysmark@orca.cita.utoronto.ca>
Subject: overly clever failsafe system
The following appeared in my mailbox. (Don't know the name
of the person who originally sent it; I was at the end of a
moderate-sized forwarding chain.)
On Peter Ross's ABC-TV arts show on Sunday Afternoon,
the avant garde composer John Cage was featured
performing his 4'33". It consists of the performer(s),
armed with a stopwatch, sitting silently on stage for
four minutes 33 seconds, with the music consisting of
whatever noises come from the audience or outside the
auditorium. The TV performance went well, but the ABC
was caught out by technology - a fail-safe device turns
off studio transmission if there's more than 90 seconds
of silence, and puts up a test pattern. It went into
operation three times during the performance.
Mark Bartelt, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics 416/978-5619
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Right Now...
recovering from a programming-induced flu :-P
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
"Threads of control", the March 1992 illustration for the mt. Xinu "stream of
consciousness calendar"
At the right: front and back views of puppet on threads, with various
control threads labeled:
Head: accesses Joke BBS; sees C-shell by the C-shore
Right arm and hand: processes sticky bits; types
Right leg: runs in real time.
Left leg: operates boot; executes longjmp()
Back: implements block (clears tackle)
Figure 2.3---Standardized thread allocation for Mach 2.5 system calls.
Each thread controls specific peripherals (user or system-based) and
their functions, as noted. The intended audience for this standard is
all persons concerned with industry-wide whimsy. This includes at least
four groups of people:
* Persons associated with Gepetto
* Persons under puppet regimes
* Persons who have (or once were) small children
* Everyone else
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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 Apr 1 18:10:15 EST 1992 on host e40-008-8 .MIT.EDU
Last logged on Wed Apr 01 18:58:39 EST 1992 on host m37-332-1 .MIT.EDU
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krandor (Craig A Henderson):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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livewire (Live Wire):
GETTING SOME SLEEP, @#$%^&*!!!!!!
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lud (Jeffrey T Ludwig):
Home: 140 Clarendon Street #914 || MIT Lincoln Lab Office: B284
Boston, MA || phone: (617) 981-5596
02116 || fax: (617) 981-4129
phone: (617) 437-9850 || email: lud@athena.mit.edu
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panda (Chris Reed):
Strat-O-Matic MLB 1991 (72 games) Last Update: 4/01/92,Chris
Div GIH Team W L PCT GB NEW
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NlW 9 Atlanta 42 21 .667 --- 2-1 vDet
AlW 9 Texas 35 28 .555 7.0 1-2 vDet
NlW 36 Los Angeles 20 16 .556 8.5
NlW 15 Houston 29 28 .509 10.0 2-1 @Bos
AlE 36 Detroit 15 21 .417 13.5 2-1 @Tex, 1-2 @Atl
AlE 33 Boston 14 25 .359 16.0 1-2 vHou
AlE 33 Toronto 14 25 .359 16.0
NOTES:
Detroit not doing it at home this year?...
AWAY (10-8) (12-15) (1-5) (2-4) (11-7) (7-5) (8-10)
HOME Det Hou Bos Tor LA Atl Tex
(4-11) Det xxxxxxxx|6-4 5-4| | |9-4 |3-4 |10-2
xxxxxxxx|4-6 6-5| | |11-5 |5-4 |11-6
xxxxxxxx|2-3 12-5| | |3-2 |6-0 |7-9
(15-12)Hou 2-3 3-6|xxxxxxxx|3-4 |0-3 |3-4 |3-8 7-2|2-3 8-3
3-4 2-1|xxxxxxxx|3-4 |4-7 |3-1 |1-2 1-2|3-4 1-4
6-1 8-2|xxxxxxxx|4-5 |3-0 |4-2 |6-3 7-6|6-3 6-5
(5-4) Bos |2-3 0-15|xxxxxxxx| |0-2 | |
|6-8 9-2|xxxxxxxx| |15-1 | |
|9-2 1-8|xxxxxxxx| |3-2 | |
(2-4) Tor | | |xxxxxxxx|8-3 | |2-6
| | |xxxxxxxx|5-3 | |7-3
| | |xxxxxxxx|4-3 | |4-5
(9-9) LA 4-3 |0-2 | |0-3 |xxxxxxxx|8-6 |3-5 3-2
1-0 |1-3 | |1-0 |xxxxxxxx|3-8 |3-8 0-4
1-3 |9-8 | |2-3 |xxxxxxxx|5-4 |4-5 5-2
(8-4) Atl 6-4 |4-2 6-2| | |0-11 |xxxxxxxx|
6-5 |0-3 1-9| | |4-8 |xxxxxxxx|
4-8 |4-7 1-2| | |1-3 |xxxxxxxx|
(11-10)Tex 6-4 16-6|1-6 8-3|4-3 8-9| |7-6 | |xxxxxxxx
9-10 1-4|2-3 9-2|7-8 5-4| |4-5 | |xxxxxxxx
6-7 10-5|9-3 4-7|5-7 7-6| |4-5 | |xxxxxxxx
Det Hou Bos Tor LA Atl Tex
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relic (Aram J Agajanian):
Desperately trying to stay out of trouble.
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
Recently, someone commented on how he was criticized for holding doors
open for women. This started me off on a long train of thought about
what happens when we say "we just want women to be treated like people."
The assumption on both sides seems to be that "treated like people"
actually means "treated like men." On one side we have the feminists
who get angry at someone for holding a door open for them, since that's
"being treated like a woman." On the other side, we have the
anti-feminists who say "you wouldn't *want* to be treated like men, men
are murdered more, forced to conceal their emotions, beaten up more,
etc."
Sometimes I wonder if the average anti-feminist is more anti-male than
the average feminist, considering what they seem to think men's behavior
toward other people will default to. I mean, really, why should it be
so generally *necessary* for men to be protecting women from other men
and from themselves (if you recall the thread on how men could barely
control their urge to rape)?
Well, anyway, who said we wanted to be treated like men? "People" and
"men" are not identical sets....
--Muffy Barkocy
<muffy@mica.berkeley.edu>
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sjdoshi (Sima J Doshi):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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srz (Stan Zanarotti):
We hurl through an incomprehensible darkness. In cosmic terms, we are
subatomic particles in a grain of sand on an infinite beach.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
DOES DR. McCOY KNOW?
FASA's Star Trek: The Role-playing Game describes the Klingon
Agonizer as a hand-held device "applied to the left shoulder just above
where the ear is located in humans."
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
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
From: kanner@Apple.COM (Herbert Kanner)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: aerial photography
Date: 19 Mar 92 17:35:51 GMT
Organization: Development Systems Group, Apple Computer
A photographer from a well know national magazine
was assigned to cover the fires at Yellowstone National Park.
The magazine wanted to show some of the heroic work of the
fire fighters as they battled the blaze.
When the photographer arrived, he realized that the smoke
was so thick that it would seriously impede or make it
impossible for him to photograph anything from ground level.
He requested permission to rent a plane and take photos
from the air. His request was approved, and arrangements
were made. He was told to report to a nearby airport where
a plane would be waiting for him. He arrived at the airport
and saw a plane warming up near the gate. He jumped in with
his bag and shouted, "Let's go!" The pilot swung the little
plane into the wind, and within minutes they were in the air.
The photographer said, "Fly over the park and make two or three
low passes so I can take some pictures."
"Why?" asked the pilot. "Because I am a photographer," he
responded, "and photographers make photographs."
The pilot was silent for a moment; finally he stammered,
"You mean you're not the flight instructor?"
--
Herb Kanner
Apple Computer, Inc.
{idi,nsc}!apple!kanner
kanner@apple.com
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willus (William L Menninger):
Home address: 45 River St., #2
Boston, MA 02108-1108
Do you know how I get up for my game?
Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?
That's right.
Air Jordan. Air Jordan. Air Jordan.
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