[4562] in Central_America
New quotes for Tue Sep 15
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue Sep 15 21:29:16 1992
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 21:29:02 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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geetha (Geetha G Krishnan):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
Yeah, yeah, sure--don't you have to go make some Elfin cookies?
--- Crow
She looks like an Oompa-Loompa!
--- Tom, "Moon Zero Two"
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leira (Rev. Linda L. Julien):
To say it until I believe it:
"It's not my fault, and it's not my responsibility."
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nightowl (Blodeuwedd):
other account: grove@mitlns.mit.edu
(logged in almost all day weekdays at that address)
"But how can you know what you want
till you get what you want and you
see that you like it?"
"Do I know?
All I know is I've never wished
For what I've never wanted."
Cinderella and the Baker's Wife from "Into the Woods"
"I have a tale to tell; Sometimes it gets
So hard to hide it well.
I was not ready for the fall. Too blind to
See the writing on the wall.
A man can tell a thousand lies; I've learned my lesson well
Hope I live to tell the secret I have learned, till then
It will burn inside of me...
If I ran away, I'd never have the strength
To go very far.
How would they hear the beating of my heart?"
from "Live to Tell"
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norii (Justin N Lapierre):
Move forward, onward, continue through life.
But along the way remember all those that made a difference
and make sure you return the favor.
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
[continued from yesterday]
null field for several days have poorer reaction time. ringing
Our own hearts have magnetic fields (from the iron-rich
blood?), and our brains have 7 billion particles of 7777777
biologically-formed magnetite crystals [discovered by CONNECT
CalTech geobiologists Joseph & Atsuko Kirschvink]. And is CalTech
it a coincidence that own brainwaves, during alpha's :Gumby>
creative/passive state, cycle to match the rhythmic Gumby@
pulsation of Earth's magfield (7.83 cps - the Schumann Gumby/
Resonance, aka "the brainwave of the planet")? cd7.83c
ps -x
At UCLA's film school in the late 60's, we used to delight 60
in putting the large tape degaussers on the sides of our
heads, by the major nerve network at the temples. Half of !ntt
those who tried this, would see a bright flash "inside" - ~ins_
even with their eyes closed. It seemed quite harmless, and LOCK
many of us have gone on to superficially productive lives. terminal
@berkely
But I digress.
If you check out the Aeromagnetic Map, you will notice that
in the magnetic anomaly near my home [Latitude 118.16.45, COORD
Longitude 34.05.07], a magfield line crosses Maltman Avenue ESTAB
right at the base of the hill, at Ellsworth Street. It is Lat
congruent with an extension of a local faultline (and the 118deg
former site of the now discontinuous Glendale Freeway). 16'45"
Maltman proceeds one block further, up to Bellevue Avenue, Long
where it ends. 34deg
05'07"
This diagram gives a camera ^L
simplistic but rather / /cu
cute cross-section /== magfield-3 /== m_3
of the scene's area *}O/ /?
$^/ /$^CODEX
/O/ MJ on bike PRIORITY
. / ESTAB
. / /.
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Maltman Avenue / /Maltman
______________________/ Ellsworth Street crossing /Ellswor
= = ===^M=^M
=magfield-1 =magfield-2 =^M.=^M?
^H^H^H^H
THE PREPARATION: :>Lee<
*ManiacG
The WIZ-bike was holding up quite well. Originally a Trek OPEN:chD
18-speed racer, I had heavily modified it into an effects 18_sp
geek's dream-machine: STAR TREK-like carriers, a gooseneck STARWARS
headlamp, tri-bladed propellor, extended mirror, horns, toy thx.1138
space-guns, lights and sound arrays, and matching trim. I ACCESS:
was also using it on city streets, for daily film-lab runs. spacegun
When people saw me coming, they got out of the way. PASSWORD
ACCEPTED
But all of the gadgets were simply film-effects geegaws and
gingerbread. Now was the time for "practical effects". ARMING:
I prepared the bike by rigging 4" U-coils over both wheels 4~Usiloc
- a primary coil with 288 hand-windings of #20 wire in front, Silo288
and two secondary coils with 576 windings of #28 wire in Silo576
back. Each wheel had 12 "Mystery Magnets" from Pasadena's >#20-28
B&B Surplus, epoxied to the wheel rim at equal spaces. BBS_+?
The bike's sound & light gadgets were disengaged (too dim in syntax
the daytime, and we were shooting silent anyway), and I error
rerouted the bike-lamp generators through the coils. The Silo:
Trek was now over 14 pounds heavier, but if the shot worked 14_lb
it would all be worth it. detonate
rt.?
THE TIME: TIME:set
Sunday, May 11, 1986 - late morning. :S_986
~~syntax
Tempus fugit! I'd first begun this film in 1982, planning f!irs982
to complete it within a $35,000 budget (my life savings). $:access
My esteamed business partner found me, used my work to /IR$
secure financial interest, and we restarted everything in rmdir/
September of 1983 - with a larger budget, and with him as 1040:p
corporate treasurer and CFO. (He also insisted on acting ^U^U^U^U
as the slimey, embezzling, sociopathic producer in the ERASE:?
feature, BTW.) Our production account soon mysteriously ALL:IR$
dropped to bare-bones, and I used my own savings to keep except
pushing the film toward completion. ~RKaye!~
^U^U^U^U
Finishing by the 1984 Olympics had become a memory. In 984_O
1985, a string of movies came out with stories, scenes, 985_:mov
and gizmos remarkably similar to WIZARD's: PEE-WEE'S BIG PASSWORD
ADVENTURE ("The story of a rebel and his bike"), BACK TO ~Pee-Wee
THE FUTURE (which even had "Wizard" in graffiti on the ff
high school's entrance), and REAL GENIUS. In 1986, it 986_i
was "F/X" - and even our union-building tilt-pans seemed ~F/X~
duplicated in COCKTAIL. access:
access:?
Depressing, demoralizing, gut-wrenching, heart-breaking.
But still - no reason for giving up, nor adding the last NORAD
few shots.
I was in the Ani-Room prepping a photo-collage for the epp_coll
Wizard Run, when I noticed my pocket-magnetometer starting chmod
to vibrate. I called one of our feature's most talented NORAD>
production assistants and Wizard Apprentice - Brian Thomas. Wizard
This was the day we'd been waiting for. Luckily, I still
had our minimum package of camera equipment, rented over grep F/X
the weekend.
D.yoST
menu:?
THE FILMING: 1frmColB
[continued tomorrow, same time, same .plan...]
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Peacekeeper
A man in Morgantown, West Virginia, admitted that he had taken almost
1,900 college texts worth more than $60,000 from eight area libraries.
He said that the books contained information that could be used to
design nuclear weapons, and he wanted to keep them from falling into
the wrong hands.
from No Comment
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therese (Therese):
Three Rings for Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the
Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men
doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One
Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In
the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
- Tolkien
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wkcook (Wendy K Cook):
Epitaph: Honest I lived, Honest I died;
I thought I was perfect, but now here I lie.
Favorite Quote: And remember, wherever you go, there you are.
-Buckaroo Bonzai
I believe in the American dream, the red-white-and-blue, non-whitening
fabric softner, and doses of concentrated Blues' Brothers at times of
crises. I believe in Mozart, long walks leading nowhere and everywhere,
and that Harvard was long ago taken over by aliens from planet 10 of the
eighth dimension. I believe in peace, and old blue jeans, Boston baked
beans and New England spring. I believe in animal attraction and love
at first sight. I believe in lasting friendships and Buddhist philosophy,
God, heaven, and the elusive silver lining. I belive in my friends and
my family, and I believe in myself.
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