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New quotes for Mon Aug 22
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 22 01:23:43 1988
From: Don't reply to root! <root@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 88 01:21:27 EDT
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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amgreene (Rhu Greene):
Pam was coming through NY the other day, so I met her in the City
and we had a wonderful time. I think we're still friends.
9 more days! Yea!
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dachurch (Douglas A. Church):
"Gravity's Angel" Written by Laurie Anderson (for Thomas Pynchon)
You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes.
You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all.
Everybody loves you.
You can charm the birds out of the sky. But I, I've got one thing.
You always know just what to say. And when to go.
But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark.
But I've got one thing. I loved you better.
Last night I woke up. Saw this angel. He flew in my window.
And he said: Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?
And I looked around and said: Who me?
And he said: The higher you fly, the faster you fall. He said:
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's rainbow.
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's angel.
Why these mountains? Why this sky? This big road. This ugly train.
Well he was an ugly guy. With an ugly face.
An also-ran in the human race.
And even God got sad just looking at him. And at his funeral
all his friends stood around him looking sad. But they were really
thinking of all the ham and cheese sandwiches in the next room.
And everybody used to hang around him. And I know why.
They said: There but for the grace of the angels go I.
Why these mountains? Why this sky?
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's rainbow.
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's angel.
Well we were just laying there.
And this ghost of your other lover walked in.
And stood there. Made of thin air. Full of desire.
Look, look, look. You forgot to take your shirt.
And there's your book. And there's your pen, sitting on the table.
Why these mountains? Why this sky? This big road? This empty room?
Why these mountains? Why this sky? This big road. This empty room.
Synclavier and Vocals by Laurie Anderson. Backing Vocals by Peter Gabriel.
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
Methinks world is for you
Made of what you believe
If it's false or it's true
You can read it in your bible
Or on the back of this record sleeve
"I Bought Myself a Liarbird" XTC
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 88 08:50 EDT
From: Robert Scheifler <RWS@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu>
To: spar!ascway!hara@decwrl.dec.com, xpert@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
4) Recently, I heard about X.V11R3 , but do you know when it'll be
distributed?
Yes. :-)
At SIGGRAPH I made the claim that that the release date was "Octoberish,
this yearish". That's still trueish.
What are the major changes in R3 compared with R2?
The ones that you will see when it is released. :-)
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elsj (John E Elsbree):
Finished my co-op stint at GenRad...
Preparing to become a student again after an 8-month hiatus.
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hvgandhi (Sarita Gandhi):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Plan, plan, who's got the plan....
To be a good little watchmaker and to find someplace to sleep every
night until the semester starts....
"Inconceivable!"
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jmh (J Michael Hammond):
Getting out of Texas as soon as possible.
It's official: I will be working in Omaha at the AF Global Weather
Center beginning right around Christmas.
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from the unofficial underground military lexicon:
TLA [tee el aey]: n. 1. A three-letter acronym. 2. A three-letter
acronym.
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Did you know that the acronym for "Commander in Chief, US Naval
Forces" is CinC-US, and is pronounced "sink-us"?
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mcharity (Mitchell N Charity):
mcharity@athena.mit.edu
...!mit-eddie!mit-athena!mcharity
POBox 456 Kendall Sq Cambridge MA 02142
MIT Internal: 550 MemDr (Tang) #16B
(617)494-8880
Christopher Strachey's first law of programmin:
"Decide what you want to say
before you worry about how you are going to say it"
- Denotational Semantics, Stoy
[and the catapiller said to Alice (P.Hacker):
"What, worried over being short a few orders of magnitude?
Were on an exponential curve, dear. Factors of ten dont matter.
Just eat a bit and your there."
]
grin (*.*)
The way that you wander, is the way that you choose,
the day that you tarry, is the day that you loose.
- rnd movie
[Working for an augmented intelligence singularity by 2020]
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pfkrause (Paul F Krause):
pfkrause A Paul F. Krause
(-paul) Hacking Actors for Hewitt
Birthday 26 December 64; Work NE43-811; 253 5875
Home 253 Comm Ave (TEP); 262 5090
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twleung (Theodore W. (Ted) Leung):
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man,
though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:7-8
Partial New address: (after 8/29/88 -- more to follow)
Ted Leung
Box 1910
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
twl@cs.brown.edu
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wisner (Bill Wisner):
"I'm doing everything I can, and stop calling me Shirley."
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