[5242] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Dec 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Wed Dec 29 05:23:47 1993
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 05:23:21 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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djablon (Dan J. Jablonski):
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Dan Jablonski | Last air trip 1: BOS-JFK-DFW-HOU-STL-BOS (TW)
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
travel:
Maybe to usenix, if some other people get their acts together...
hacking:
If you want to send me private email, pgp encrypt it and send it
to eichin@perdiem.cygnus.com (my laptop) or eichin@paycheck.cygnus.com
(my base machine at home.)
work:
Compiler release mostly dead and gone.
Kerberos release mostly on it's way.
Starting to look for my replacement, so I can do what I want to.
quotes:
[it was said] with the wisdom invariable shewn by people who, not
being in love themselves, feel that a clever man ought to be unhappy
only about such persons as are worth his while; which is rather like
being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at
the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the common bacillus.
Mme. des Laumes, Swann in Love
_Swann's Way_, Marcel Proust
as translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1928)
play:
The living room proved big enough to entertain 3 guests, after moving
the Sun 3/50 out of the way (the "fiber to the home" people haven't
even begun to consider the social problems of "ethernet across the
floor"...)
And the X10 controller is up and running. Stage 1 of the 1000 ft^2
alarm clock underway :-)
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ellis (Steve Ellis):
Plan? We don't do any planning here, someone might expect us
to carry out a plan.
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
Like many Jewish feminists of differing specific concerns, I was
initally drawn to feminism through issues of equal access. Since women's
subordination in Jewish law and exclusion from public ritual life are
obvious and painful, the focus on equal access was a natural beginning
stage. The issues first at the center of feminist discussion were not
ones that feminists chose, but issues that, in a sense, chose us;
problems like divorce and minyan that, in their concreteness and
urgency, clamored for remedy. The process of living with these questions
for a while gradually made clear, however, that problems of equal rights
are only symptoms of a broader patriarchal worldview. The fight for
specific reforms led to a thicket of fundamental question with
implications far beyond the particular problems that gave rise to them.
Thus Jewish feminists might agree that it is a matter of simple justice
for Jewish women to have full access to the riches of Jewish life. But
when a woman stands in the pulpit and reads from the Torah that
daughters can be sold as slaves (Ex. 21:7-11), she participates in a
profound contradiction between the message of her presence and the
content of what she learns and teaches. It is this contradiction
feminists must address, not simply "adding" women to a tradition that
remains basically unaltered, but transforming Judaism into a religion
that women as well as men have a role in shaping.
from _Standing Again At Sanai_, Judith Plaskow
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