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Fri Jul 1 03:10:45 1994
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 03:10:15 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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bamf (David Y Oh):
U.S. [economic] Output as Percentage of Output in:
1970 1975 1980 1986 1987
JAPAN 495 317 254 214 188
GERMANY 547 371 330 469 401
FRANCE 706 462 409 576 507
U.K. 820 673 502 764 649
Japan & France 291 188 156 167 137
Japan & Germany 260 173 144 147 128
EEC 158 113 93 131 104
EEC & Japan 113 77 64 77 67
From Preparing for the Twenty-First Century by Paul Kennedy, Vintage
Books, 1993, pg. 301.
There's the situation. What's your plan?
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dskern (David Kern):
An apple sat on the railroad track
feeling bad and cross
around the corner came number ten
toot! toot! applesauce
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mhuang (The Holy Loud Mouth):
. . "Lard! Lard! Lard!"
... :``..': "Pigs don't sweat."
: ````.' :''::' "Who the hell are you?"
..:.. : .'' : "Don't do that with your yogurt!"
``. `: .' : "Is all that food yours?"
: : : : "Has anyone ever read _Red Planet_?"
: : : : "Zeroeth dimension?"
: : : : "Don't steal that!"
: : :..''''``::. "De Longer De Better"
: ...:..' .'' "Did anyone hear 'Russian Egg'?"
.' .' .::::' "Do you KNOW what TIME it is?"
:..'''``::::::: "That will be $10.73, please."
' `:::: "You must be joking." (immediately following)
`::. "*jiggle* *jiggle* *wiggle*" (Willis's dance)
`:: "
:::.
..:```.:'`. ::'`.
..' `:.: ::
.: .:``:::
.: ..'' :::
: .'' .::
: .'`::
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yandros (Chad Phillip Brown):
Hiho.
This week is turning out to be pretty interesting, too. Cryptic
meta-description:
``Whirlwinds need love too!''
I'm pretty much nightshifted, going to be sleep between 9am and 11am
most days. Whee.
Spending time talking to people, still, even thought it's harder now
with certain people. That's a Good Thing. I've been a bit busy,
though, so there are things that I've wanted to say to people that I
haven't been able to say yet. :-( I'm sorry, and thank you for your
patience.
What am I working on? Well, the Judge is working, waiting on some
polishing, so I'm playing with other things. I installed `ee' (a
kinda cool curses-based simple editor) in outland, I build new
versions of 6 or 7 things, I fixed a security hole in some code that
I suspect no one knows about (yet :-), I cleaned out my homedir a
lot, including old mail, I partially installed a newer, (supposedly)
nicer version of GNUS in /afs/sipb/contrib/emacs, and I built some
more X toys for people to find (no hints yet, though. :-). Oh, and
I'm editting this in lucid emacs, which mostly works, but is still
slightly misconfigured and is still too slow; I don't really
understand why. :-/ I've got almost enough random playing back into
my blood that I can start seriously working on some private projects
soon.
Once the Judge is really done (soon! Really! I mean it!) I'll be
working with Craig on `bug fixes to the Athena environment', which
is a pretty nebulous term, but there are some cool possibilites for
things to work on `out there', like maybe working on making the
OLC/OLTA systems die less often. Right now I'm thinking about
various things I want to do and trying to keep up with the test
release status, in case I can be useful to someone...
What else? MIT Ultimate Team pickup didn't happen today, I suppose,
since it was raining. I had other things to do anyway, though, so
that was ok. After that, I watched `The Women of Brewster Place' at
Fenway. It's a really cool movie; go see it if you haven't already.
Nobody said anything about `relaxed pickup' on Wednesdays, so I
guess either that's a bad day or people are busy or something..
Anyway, I think I'm going to start swimming again, if I can only
find my suit... Anyone want to join me? (mornings, most likely)
Also, I'm still thinking about running and/or biking and/or weight
training, and I'd still like to get in some rapelling or climbing
this summer, so if you'd like to take me, let me know. :-)
Random things... my workstation (the one that took the 7.7 beta)
isn't letting me log in remotely... did I forget something? I seem
to have lost the list of Lucid Emacs files eaten by the net cell,
which makes damage assement/repair more interesting. Kevin's not
around right now, so I can say things about running without getting
dragged out 3 times a day to actually do it... I got to play with
my cat some more.. She seems really ok, at least when I'm around.
I hear stories of `other' behavior, though..
Oh, I bought a new CD. This probably isn't interesting to most
people, but I own very few CD's, so it is to me. :-) It's the
soundtrack of _The Crow_, which means it's a type of music I haven't
really heard a lot in a while, but I'm finding that it's nice to
walk around in the middle of the night with heavy and dark noise
rolling too loudly into and around your ears.
Also, I'm reading some stuff I've been meaning to read for a while,
which is cool. I guess I do have free time, even if it doesn't
always feel like it. :-)
Thinking a lot, working a lot. Sort of cruising through things,
keeping a low profile for no reason other than it's more efficient.
Life still has its moments, though (`hello, moments.' `hello,
chad'). Thining about what to do (school, work) and where to go
(Planet 10!) and when (Real Soon Now!) and how I want a bunch of
relationships to work out, and how they *can* work out, and things
like that.
Thinking about the past, and people I knew and people I miss, things
like that; about the strange nature of time and `safe' and
desperation and daring.
So, where to from here?
Well, see, that's a good question...
--
...
I go to school, I write exams,
If I pass, if I fail, if I drop out, does anyone give a damn?
And if they do, they'll soon forget,
'cause it won't take much for me to show that my life ain't over yet.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange,
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange..
and everything around me stays the same.
...
_What a Good Boy_, BareNaked Ladies
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<a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/yandros/home.html">chad</a>
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