[5446] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri May 13
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Fri May 13 03:20:46 1994
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 03:19:59 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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anjchang (Angela Chang):
{from system: This user's .plan file is not world-readable}
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belville (Sharon Belville):
The pun o' the day is:
"My stereo's finally fixed," said Tom ecstatically.
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gsstark (Greg Stark):
{To CA: nothing new, just fixed a couple of typos}
``I'm a firm believer that no one should get hurt on a set,
I've been very fortunate, I haven't gotten hurt yet.''
-- Actor Brandon Lee
five days before being killed in a
freak accident involving a defective blank
``No More Peony Envy!''
-- From a flyer distributed by a gardener here
``In a stunning display of `beating swords into ploughshares,'' a major
company announced that they would stop making firearms and heavy weapons for
the US military. They said they would instead concentrate on making firearms
and heavy weapons for the US citizenry.''
-- Heard in the closing credits of a public tv program
(who's name escapes me right now, I'll look it up)
``My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the state. Let
each and every cell rejoice! For today we celebrate the first glorious
anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for
the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker
may bloom secure from the pests of very contradictory truths. Our unification
of thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are
one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk
themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall
prevail. ''
-- Microsoft, err I mean Big Brother / Big Blue
in the 1984 Macintosh commercial.
``Wouldn't the sentence `I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish
and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer
if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and
and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and
and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?''
``Emacs is not an editor. Emacs is a way of thinking about the world, and
as such is a way of thinking about editors. The process of editing is Emacs,
but Emacs is more than the process of editing. When you ask what Emacs does,
you are asking a question with no answer, because Emacs doesn't do, it is
done to. Emacs just is. ... I hope this makes things clearer.''
-- Scott Dorsey (kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov)
in newsgroup alt.religion.emacs
All, right here's mine...
Geek code:
GCS/M -d+ p@ c++(++++) !l u++ e+ m(-) s-/+ n@ h*(+)(++) f? !g w@ tt++(@) r++ x?
MIT address:
69 Chestnust St.
Cambridge...
Montreal Address:
642 Belmont Ave.
Westmount, Qc, CANADA
H3Y 2W2
email to gsstark@mit will be probably be read.
email to gs_star@concordia.ca will probably be bounced.
email to bbe9@musicb.mcgill.ca will however be ignored
email to gsstark@binkley.cs.Mcgill.ca will be forwarded
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jberman (Jesse M Berman):
The cut was deep, the blood was warm
I can't deny what it's done
If we don't release the past, we'll slap the face
Of the days to come
Seventy Sevens, "The Days to Come"
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kdmiller (Kenneth D Miller):
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while(c!=-1){printf("%07x0:",a++);for /* ( kdmiller@athena.mit.edu ) */
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Yes!! I'm online! Just use 'kdmiller@m4-035-2.mit.edu'...
I've been on since Thu May 12 23:08:57 1994
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mjdaly (Mark J Daly):
Strat '93 Standings (games played through May 11)
Atlanta 14 4 - .778
Philadelphia 12 8 3.0 .600
NY Yankees 13 9 3.0 .591
Houston 8 6 4.0 .571
San Francisco 26 26 5.0 .500
Toronto 8 8 3.0 .500
Texas 11 13 6.0 .458
Boston 10 14 7.0 .417
Seattle 10 24 12.0 .294
This Season: each team plays 4-game series at home and away against
every other team
Series results (home on right, away across top - home team score first):
Atl Bos Hou NYY Phi SF Sea Tex Tor
Atl *** 3-1 4-0
Bos *** 1-3 3-1 2-2 1-3
Hou *** 2-0
NYY 0-2 ***
Phi 1-3 2-2 *** 2-2
SF 2-2 4-0 2-2 1-3 *** 3-1 2-2
Sea 1-3 2-2 1-3 *** 2-2 2-2
Tex 1-3 1-3 3-1 ***
Tor 1-3 ***
SF-Tor split 4 but I forget where...
NYY beat SF 3-1 somewhere...
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
More info on `Hacker Barbie'.. No mention of the pink Sun
workstation, though. :-/ :-)
[multiple forwards deleted]
[original source unknown]
(LA, California) Mattel announces their new line of Barbie
products, the "Hacker Barbie." These new dolls will be released
next month. The aim of these dolls is to revert the stereotype
that women are numerophobic, computer-illiterate, and
academically challenged.
This new line of Barbie dolls comes equipped with Barbie's very
own xterminal and UNIX documentation as well as ORA's "In a
Nutshell" series. The Barbie is robed in a dirty button-up
shirt and a pair of worn-out jeans with Casio all-purpose
watches and thick glasses that can set ants on fire. Pocket
protectors and HP calculators optional. The new Barbie has the
incredible ability to stare at the screen without blinking her
eyes and to go without eating or drinking for 12 hours
straight. Her vocabulary mainly consists of technical terms
such as "IP address," "TCP/IP," "kernel," "NP-complete," and
"Alpha AXP's."
"We are very excited about this product," said John Olson,
Marketting Executive, "and we hope that the Hacker Barbie will
offset the damage incurred by the mathophobic Barbie." A year
ago, Mattel released Barbie dolls that say, "Math is hard,"
with condescending companions Ken. The Hacker Barbie's Ken is
an incompetent consultant who frequently asks Barbie for help.
The leading feminists are equally excited about this new line
of Barbie dolls. Naomi Wuuf says, "I believe that these new
dolls will finally terminate the notion that women are
inherently inferior when it comes to mathematics and the
sciences. However, I feel that Ken's hierarchical superiority
would simply reinforce the patriarchy and oppress the masses."
Mattel made no comment.
Parents, however, are worried that they would become
technologically behind by comparison to the children when the
Hacker Barbie comes out. "My daughter Jenny plays with the
prototype Hacker Barbie over yonder for two days," says Mrs.
Mary Carlson of Oxford, Mississippi, "and as y'all know, she
now pays my credit card bill. Ain't got no idea how she duz it,
but she surely duz it. I jus don't wanna be looked upon as a
dumb mama." Mattel will be offering free training courses for
those who purchase the Hacker Barbie.
The future Hacker Barbie will include several variations to
deal with the complex aspects of Barbie. "Hacker Barbie Goes to
Jail" will teach computer ethics to youngsters, while "BARB1E
R1TES L1KE BIFF!!!" will serve as an introduction to expository
writing.
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therese (Therese):
At the still point of destruction
At the centre of the fury
All the angels all the devils
All around us can't you see
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand...
- Sting,
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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