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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu May 7 01:33:20 1992
Date: Thu, 7 May 92 01:32:39 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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aras:
Every time I dodge this particular person, she comes into my sleep
and haunts me through sweet dreams. I woke this morning and thought
she was there beside me, standing still for a moment. I knew she
really wasn't because for me that's not possible. I understand this
now, but I still cannot explain it to others. Then I heard the
sound of a skirt sweeping across the floor and quiet footsteps
walking cautiously around my resting body.
The sound of the skirt came from loose papers scattered randomly
around the room. They are my work from the current term, discarded
yet never quite thrown away. Now it all sits in a pile, stirred
around by the breeze of an open window. The wind rattles them
creating the sweeping sound for my resting ears. The footsteps I
heard were just never there.
I have had many similar dreams when I close my eyes to rest. They
wake me each morning with more terror than most dreams should be
capable of. I wake to find that I have lost parts of myself back to
the dreams that are gone forever. Things have been taken from me
that I've had since childhood and thought I always would.
I guess I'm saying this so those concerned will understand why I
will be in another state of mind for the remainder of my stay at
MIT. I don't want to face the morning. I don't want to know about
the way my life could have been just so that I can lose that way of
life. I will create another reality for myself. This reality will
take away much less from me than do my dreams. This reality also
returns to me that which I have lost through dreaming. When I wake,
I lose these things again but in a different way. The loss is more
comforting because the object was not just in a dream and I know
that I can always return to find it there waiting for me. I guess
the only fear is that the creation is so nice, that I might one day
decide never to return to this reality.
If I return, I will pack up all the shit left in my room, throw this
school permanently out of my life and head straight home.
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ares (Max):
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
Plan: To have my thesis finished and signed before April passes.
Status: Well, I guess he likes it:
>> I would like to nominate your thesis for an award (it's tough
>> competition , but I think you have good shot at it!). I will
>> need the final copy by this Friday. I'll attach a cover letter.
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bri (Brian D. Carlstrom):
Brian D. Carlstrom '95
Course VI-3 (Computer Science and Engineering)
Baker House, Rm 311 (w7-311), x5-7311 ('91-'92)
Rm ??? (w7-???), x?-???? (Summer '92)
Rm 132 (w7-132), x5-7132 ('92-'93)
Flight Transport Lab, 33-220, x3-3894
Email: bri@athena.mit.edu (bri%athena.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet)
Snail Mail:
362 Memorial Drive 5009 Woodside Road
Cambridge, MA 02139 Fayetteville, NY 13066
(617)225-7311 (315)445-2690
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
Part of my interlude with M-x doctor:
What makes you think they'd still be nerds?
It's intuitively obvious.
How do you reconcile any hobbies you have?
I don't have any hobbies.
Is it because of your sex life that you say you do not have any hobbies?
You're way off track, bud.
Why do you say I am way off track bud?
Because my sex life has nothing to do with my hobbies.
Is it because your sex life has nothing to do with your hobbies that you
came to me?
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
When this load is DONE I think I'll wash it AGAIN..
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hauben (Frederick G Haubensak):
1. To get away with as little work as possible.
2. To deny item 1. to my advisor.
3. GO TO 1.
4. Fracture mechanics of porous ceramics.
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henry (Henry Mensch):
*** some things never change ...
"i was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
but heaven knows i'm miserable now ...
i was looking for a job, and then i found a job
and heaven knows i'm miserable now"
-- The Smiths
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-- quentin crisp
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Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
1500 Plymouth Street
Mountain View, CA 94043-1230
e-mail forwards to <henry@ads.com> (at least until we change the
domain name ... )
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
{From system: This user's .plan file is a symlink!}
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pwkan (paul wh kan):
If it were only for vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of
action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent. . .to the
end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate
and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker
how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor
of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quary from whence we get
tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to
learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the
field and the work-yard made.
--R.W. Emerson, "The American Scholar"
Where works of art are rare, rarity itself is a value; it is only when
they are common . . . that one can learn their intrinsic worth.
--Goethe, as cited in TNR 25 Jun 90, pg35
Now I know the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow up
in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
--Walt Whitman
Work: Richard L Sidman Lab (617) 735-6344
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Home: 428 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 494-9065/9833
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raek (Robyn A E Kozierok):
NEW YORK -- Historically, sacrifice has been to religion what
yeast is to a rising bread: the ingredient that guarantees the
integrity of the end product.
But for many American Jews, the financial sacrifice needed to
ensure a full Jewish life is unreachable, according to a report
issued here by the American Jewish Committee.
The report, called ``The High Cost of Jewish Living,'' says that
a family of five needs an annual income of $80,000 to $125,000 to
pay the costs of being a fully involved in their religion -- a sum
that leaves most families out.
In 1986, almost 90 percent of Jewish households had annual
incomes under $80,000, according to a 1988 study by the Council of
Jewish Federations, and 70 percent made less than $50,000.
As a result, ``it is a safe bet that a majority of Jewish
households cannot afford to pay the costs of fully involved Jewish
living,'' the report says, citing high costs as a significant
factor in the ``check-out rate'' among young and middle-aged Jews.
Funds needed to practice Judaism extend to more than elaborate,
or even simple, bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for adolescents
being integrated. They involve far more basic kinds of belonging.
A middle-class family of five, striving for a ``fully involved''
Jewish life, can expect to pay between $18,000 and $25,000 for
synagogue and community membership, day-school education and summer
camp for children and a contribution to a Jewish federation
campaign, which provides funds for Jewish projects, including many
in Israel.
Such steep costs are the reason that Robert and Leslie Stern of
Boston, a couple in their late 30s with two children 7 and 9, have
not joined a congregation nor enrolled their children in day
schools, even though together they earn $73,000, the report says.
Even ``keeping kosher'' is too expensive for some families. For
example, Susan and Eli Aviv of Queens, N.Y., earn a combined income
of $40,000 and are unable to afford the extra utensils or special
food. The couple, who have three children under 5, have also ruled
out joining a synagogue for now.
The costs of joining a Reform synagogue in 1988-89 could range
from $1,000 for a couple with an income under $30,000 to as much as
$2,200 a year for a couple in a top income bracket with two
children in school.
Costs for Orthodox synagogues are lower, ranging from about $300
to $650 a year for a family. But day school education ranges
between $2,300 and $3,600 a year for Orthodox schools and $4,130
per child for schools of the Conservative branch.
The often-held belief that most Jews are affluent is among
``myths'' that have been debunked, the report says, citing as
evidence a ``landmark'' book called ``the Invisible Jewish Poor''
by Ann G. Wolfe.
Among proposed solutions, the report suggests the following:
-- Establish national and local task forces to assess the
affordability of Jewish life.
-- Develop equitable and ``user-friendly'' systems for setting
membership and program fees.
-- Encourage board members of Jewish organizations to help
subsidize programs by taking out life insurance policies naming a
Jewish organization as beneficiary.
-- Seek untapped resources for funding and encourage
philanthropy among affluent Jews.
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satan (Satyen Shah):
Last login Wed May 6 14:37:19 1992
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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):
We were friends who rode the waves
The time we spent in our younger days
Was all in fun,.. oh the good times that we had.
We were young and it was fine
To feel your spirit as it climbed
There're no regrets
Only good times
We were friends in younger days
Although we went our separate ways
You were my friend, you never turned away
Who can say what life will do
Life is kind to just a few
There're no regrets
Only good times
In time we will grow, we will change
As free as the wind and the waves
Live your life the way you choose
Find the ones who'll laugh with you
Like the sea
will find its way to shore
As the sun sinks from the sky,
Live your life and you will find
There're no regrets
Only good times ....
- Keola and Kapono Beamer
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