[4556] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Sep 13
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Sep 13 17:23:08 1992
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 17:22:55 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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edzimmer (Eric D. Zimmerman):
To get my experiment running and write a thesis about it. (possible)
And to avoid failing my four other classes in the meantime. (doubtful)
And to convince my thesis advisor to give me a trip to the APS meeting
in November in Seattle. (yeah, right!)
"I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know whose name was
Henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was, he
spelled it H-E-N-3-R-Y. The 3 was silent, you see.
"Hen3ry was financially independent, having inherited his father's tar
and feather business, and was able therefore to devote his full time
to such intellectual pursuits as writing. I particularly remember a
heartwarming novel of his, about a young necrophiliac who finally
achieved his boyhood ambition by becoming coroner....
"In addition to writing, he indulged in a good deal of
philosophizing. Like so many contemporary philosophers, he especially
enjoyed giving helpful advice to people who were happier than he was.
One particular bit of advice which I recall, which is the whole reason
I bring up this dreary story, was something he said once, before they
took him away to the Massachusetts State Home for the Bewildered. He
said, 'Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what
you put into it.' It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the
sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today
in these trying times of crisis and international brouhaha."
-Tom Lehrer,
"An Evening Wasted
with Tom Lehrer," 1959
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Things I'm doing:
Much better, thanks.
Short term:
Connecting my PC to *everything*. Running SLIP on my alarm clock.
I've got 10 serial ports, and need all of them...
Long term:
Stamp out stupid platitudes in our life time. Start with .plan files.
Silliness:
>From: karl@empirical.com (Karl Auerbach, Empirical Tools and Technologies)
>Now... for real reliability... use punched paper tape. Its the only
>medium I know that weighs less the more information you put on it.
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
"Mom? I've turned Hindu!"
--- Tom, "Robot Monster"
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Gab from the Grave
Stanley Zelazny, a manufacturing engineer in Sunnyvale, California,
invented a solar-powered plexiglass "electronic tombstone" which
broadcasts up to ninety minutes of pretaped messages in the voice of the
deceased.
from No Comment
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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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