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From: pschmidt@athena.mit.edu (Peter H. Schmidt)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: WANTED: Fun karaoke bar in Boston area that does THURS nights
Summary: I already know places that do Fri/Sat/Sun
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:21:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr13.222127.5765
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: ne
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Does anyone know of a karaoke bar that has it on Thursday nights?  My wife's
birthday is on Thursday this year, and she has requested a karaoke party.

I have done some calling around, but everyone so far has it on the weekends.
This includes, BTW, the Best Western on Soldiers' Field Road - they just
changed from Thurs to Fri/Sat.

I'm looking for places inside of or fairly near to 128.  I'll summarize the
responses and post a followup if I get any good tips.

Thanks! --Peter



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Waltham, MA 02154	| -- Speaking for myself.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: allyn@netcom.com (Mark Allyn)
Subject: Re: more registry fees - A Call to Arms
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 15:12:59 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ne
Summary: yes it is enjoyable

> >>>>> On 7 Apr 92 21:11:41 GMT, sean@think.com (Sean Colbath) said:
> Sean> Tell me, is the opera very enjoyable if it decides to downpour half way
> Sean> there, wrecking your suit, or if you come out afterwords and find all
> Sean> your ham radio gear gone?

It is interesting with the assumptions that you make. For one thing,
how do you assume that I wear a suit to go to the opera? When I go
to the opera, I go in my bicycling shorts and tee shirt just like
anywhere else. 

What is the sense of wearing a suit to the opera? No one is going
to look at me anyways. Most operas are in dark theaters. If anyone
looks at me an a strange way, I tell them that the action is on
the stage and not here in my crotch.

If it rains, well, I dry off fairly quickly in the men's room before
the show. Then I am comfortable.

As far as the nam radio equipment is concerned, I take it off the
bike and bring it inside with me. No problem.

Mark Allyn
From: limey@hri.com (Craig Hughes)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: How real are Boston parking ticket threats for NH residents?
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:32:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: bigbird.6257
Reply-To: limey@hri.com
Distribution: ne
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In article <BMG6q7.7yu@world.std.com>, kenny@world.std.com (Kenneth R Crudup) writes:
|> 
|> Oh man, never visit Purdue University! We've got (had?) about 10-15 over-
|> weight donut disposal units who used to act like they were the LAPD! 

My favourite run-in with PUPD was in a brand new parking garage
(opposite the engineering mall for those 'in the know'); no
spaces or directional markings were yet in place.

I was heading up a ramp in the garage when a police cruiser came screaming 
around the corner, and the policeman got out and yelled at me for going up
a down ramp! 

I'd have loved to have seen a ticket for _this_ offense.......

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From: lotto@laura.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: more registry fees - A Call to Arms
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:16:12 GMT
	<b0pj7zb.allyn@netcom.com> <ku440dINN6n0@early-bird.think.com>
Distribution: ne
Organization: Chemistry Dept., Harvard University
In-reply-to: sean@think.com's message of 7 Apr 92 21:11:41 GMT

>>>>> On 7 Apr 92 21:11:41 GMT, sean@think.com (Sean Colbath) said:
Sean> winter.  Here in New England, we have 9 months of winter, and 3 months of
Sean> mighty poor sleddin'.  Biking is just not an option.  Snowmobiling -- now
Sean> that might be an option.

I ride a motorcycle in Boston, year round.  I enjoy it, it does not
present any major problems 360 days out of the year - especially
downtown.  Bicycling or motorcycling may not be an option for you, but
don't impose your limitations on others.

Sean> Tell me, is the opera very enjoyable if it decides to downpour half way
Sean> there, wrecking your suit, or if you come out afterwords and find all
Sean> your ham radio gear gone?

If you prepare so poorly that these things happen to you, I can see
how you would be disillusioned to the sport.  Perhaps you should
reconsider what mental skills are involved in riding?
--
Jerry Lotto <lotto@lhasa.harvard.edu>      "Have you hugged the curves today?"
Chemistry Dept., Harvard Univ.              AMA #520019 DoD #018 HOG #0323880
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: kenny@world.std.com (Kenneth R Crudup)
Subject: Re: Watch out for speed traps in MA
Organization: Software Tool&Die, (Boston), MA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:17:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.151659.10028@aosg.gsf.dec.com> hrt@aosg.gsf.dec.com says:
>       WHERE HAVE ALL THE MA STATE POLICE BEEN FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS ?

(out using Laser "radar").

LIDAR is a gun-like unit, more like a rifle than the pistol-type radar guns.
This doesn't sound anything like the unit you reference.

Is this anything like the (false) rumor that the CT cops had photo radar a
couple of years back?

Those LIDAR guns are $4K each. I'm surprised a state so low on cash like ours
can spend money like that, when the old units do just fine. Something like
this would allegedly have garnered some sort of press coverage, even though
the state is far more interested in collecting bucks than public safety.

See "Car and Driver", April '92 issue, on why not only are these units
not unbeatable, but highly unreliable as well. They list a lot of places 
where they are to be delivered to, and no places in NE are on the list.
They also tell you how to avoid these units.

Tickets made by these units have been tossed out of court in one area (I
forget exactly where, but I believe somewhere in MI) at a high rate.

Cinncinatti Microwave is coming out with an after the fact detetor soon
that will aid motorists in mid- to high- traffic areas.

I wish you could (would) identify your source.

-- 
Kenny Crudup, Unix Systems Consultant	kenny@world.std.com
16 Plainfield St. Jamaica Plain, (Boston), MA 02130-3633
Home +1 617 524 5929 	Home Fax +1 617 983 9410
							Lick Bush in '92!
Xref: sparky ne.seminars:120 comp.arch:5050
From: perform@netcom.com (Performace Semi-Conductor)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars,comp.arch
Subject: MIPS R3000/R4000 Seminar
Keywords: MIPS RISC R4000 R3000 Architecture ACE
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:04:32 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

FROM: Performance Semiconductor Corp.

TO: ALL INTERESTED IN MIPS R4000/R3000 RISC ARCHITECTURE


You are cordialy invited to attend a comprehensive seminar entitled
"R4000 - RISC Architecture of the 90's and Beyond", hosted by Performance
Semiconductor Corporation. MIPS Computer Systems will join in discussing
the power of advanced R3000 & R4000 microprocessors for -32 and -64 bit
systems.

	When:	Thursday, April 23, 1992 
	Time:	8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
	Where:  Newton Marriott Hotel
		Commonwealth Ave @ Route 128 (Route 30 and Mass Pike),
		Newton, MA 02166

SEATING IS LIMITED! To reserve your place please call Shirley Hogue at 
Performance Semiconductor's Boston Office by April 22, 1992.

	Phone: (617) 332-0044	Fax: (617) 332-7643

	MIPS - The RISC Architecture of the '90s and Beyond'

		Seminar Agenda

	 8:30 -  9:30 A.M. 	Company Technology Profile
				Silicon View R3000 Series
	 9:30 - 10:15 A.M.	Overview R4000 Series
				ACE Overview
	10:15 - 10:30 A.M.	Break
	10:30 - 11:30 A.M.	R4000 Series Architecture and Implementation
	11:30 - 12:00 NOON	R4000 Applications
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
From: tjc@cs.brown.edu (Tina Jo Cantor)
Subject: Announcement
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:09:35 GMT


		  The Department of Computer Science

			   BROWN UNIVERSITY


			       presents

			  Christos Polyzois

			 Princeton University

		 Thursday, April 16, 1992 at 12:00 PM

	      in the Lubrano Conference Room (Room 477)


   ``Remote Backup Algorithms for Transaction Processing Systems''


		     ____________________________


The Computer Science Department is located at 115 Waterman Street, 4th Floor


		   Host: Professor Paris Kanellakis
From: dme@cs.bu.edu (David Evans)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Boston Combined Schedule
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:05:18 GMT

Notices for meetings and lectures within the next 14 days
Events recently publicized are excluded.
We have no other information about these events; some, however,
have a phone number or address for additional details or confirmation.

  Mon 13 Apr  1:00 pm
MIT Building NE43, Rm 518, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge (On Main Street
near intersection of Albany Street, @ Polaroid Building) Refreshments at 12.45.
Speaker: Baruch Awerbuch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Exploiting Locality of Reference Without Knowing the Future"
Host: MIT Lab for Computer Science Theory of Computation Seminar and Michael
Dertouzos and Silvio Micali  For Info: <bruce@theory.lcs.mit.edu>

  Mon 13 Apr  3:15 pm
MIT Building NE43, Rm 518, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge (On Main Street
near intersection of Albany Street, @ Polaroid Building) Refreshments at 3.00.
Speaker: Dr. Christos Nikolaou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown
Heights, NY  "Achieving Performance Objectives in Large Shared Systems"
Host: MIT Lab for Computer Science Practice of Computation Seminar and W. Weihl
For Info: <alr@anne.lcs.mit.edu>

  Thu 16 Apr  4:00 pm
Room 101, Aiken Computation Laboratory, between Harvard Law School and Peabody
Museum, off Oxford Street, Cambridge. (Tea at three-thirty in Aiken Main Lobby)
Speaker: Kim Bruce, Williams College
"Designing a statically typed object-oriented programming language"
Host: Harvard University CS Colloquium Series and Michael Kilian
For Info: Prof. Victor Milenkovic, or <menke@das.harvard.edu>

  Thu 16 Apr  4:15 pm
MIT Building NE43, Rm 518, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge (On Main Street
near intersection of Albany Street, @ Polaroid Building) Refreshments at 4.00.
Speaker: Ron Graham, AT&T, Murray Hill, NJ  "Routing Permutations on Graphs"
Host: MIT Theory of Computation Seminar and Mauricio Karchmer
For Info: <bruce@theory.lcs.mit.edu>

  Mon 20 Apr  4:00 pm
Room 101, Aiken Computation Laboratory, between Harvard Law School and Peabody
Museum, off Oxford Street, Cambridge. (Tea at three-thirty in Aiken Main Lobby)
Speaker: Maurice Herlihy, Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research
Laboratory  "On the Computational Power of Asynchronous PRAM"  Host: Harvard
University CS Colloquium Series and Professor Victor J. Milenkovic
For Info: Prof. Victor Milenkovic, or <menke@das.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
From: tjc@cs.brown.edu (Tina Jo Cantor)
Subject: Today Talk
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:14:26 GMT

		  The Department of Computer Science

			   BROWN UNIVERSITY


			       presents

			    Pat Stephenson

			  Cornell University

		 Thursday, April 9, 1992 at 12:00 PM

	      in the Lubrano Conference Room (Room 477)

``Fast Communication Primitives for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems''



The Computer Science Department is located at 115 Waterman Street, 4th Floor

		   Host: Professor Paris Kanellakis

Newsgroups: mit.bboard,athena.misc,mit.lcs.misc,ne.seminars,misc.education
From: rdshydur@athena.mit.edu (Richard D Shyduroff)
Subject: MIT Educational Studies Program Spring Seminar Series, K-12 issues;
Followup-To: n/a
Summary: Seminar series begins Thursday, 16 April, 7pm in W20-400;
Keywords: MIT, education, K-12, school, kids, lean-production, alternative-edu;
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:03:58 GMT

		THE MIT EDUCATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM  [ESP]


			  Spring Seminar Series


	        "ISSUES in K-12 EDUCATION PROJECTS at MIT"

	  Updates and reviews by members of The MIT Community
	   involved in a wide range of research & education
	       in K-12 projects formally and informally 
         linked to MIT and related programs on and off Campus.

       (all sessions are on Thursday evenings at 7pm in W20-400)


				  *

	           	   Gregory Gargarian
		   
		    "Making Schools Unproductive"

		Thursday, 16 April at 7pm in W20-400

This talk offers a mixture of philosophy and practice, and will be a
Gedanken Experiment comparing productive models with educational models.
Currently "school" is based on mass production.  Most prospects for 
reform rely on lean production models.  Examples of alternatives to such
production models will be discussed.

Gregory Gargarian is a researcher, composer and educator who is currently
a PhD candidate in Seymour Papert's Epistemology & Learning Group, a 
research and education laboratory in MIT's Media Lab.

Mr. Gargarian is also a teacher at The Paige Academy in Roxbury and an
occasional consultant to an alternative school system in Brasil.

				 *

	                     Alan Dyson

      "A Review of The Cambridge Partnership for Public Education"

		Thursday, 23 April at 7pm in W20-400

Mr. Dyson is the Executive Director of this MIT program based in the
office of the president.  He has designed a number of successful pilot
programs for high school kids interested in launching small businesses.
Additional information about his presentation will be posted in weekly
updates announcing this seminar series.


				*
			Speaker & Topic TBA

		Thursday, 30 April at 7pm in W20-400
				*		


				*

		     Professor Ron Latanision

  "An update on the work of The MIT K-12 Education Initiative Committee"

		Thursday, 7 May at 7pm in W20-400

Professor Latanision chairs a committee at MIT that regularly brings together
over fifty (50) projects on campus that are involved in as many aspects
of issues and programs in K-12 education, that members of the MIT community
are studying, have themselves initiated or are working toward starting-up.
Ron Latanision is a Professor in MIT's Department of Materials Science
and Engineering.  This talk is Prof. Latanision's annual review of his work
in the K-12 domain especially for the Educational Studies Program series.


For additional information on this seminar series and the High School
Studies Program [HSSP] for high school kids at MIT please call the ESP
office at 253-4882, or drop by the main office in W20-467, or call
Richard Shyduroff, ESP Spring Seminar Co-Ordinator at 253-2000 (press 1)
and leave a message ... or send e-mail to <rdshydur@athena.mit.edu> ....
From: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Dartmouth CS: Dinesh Bhatia
Summary: "Improved Algorithms For Two Dimensional Grid Routing"
Keywords: dartmouth, computer science, grid routing, colloquium
Date: 5 Apr 92 14:42:56 GMT
Followup-To: Makedon@dartmouth.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu

Dartmouth Computer Science Colloquium
Wednesday April 8, 1992
4PM 102 Bradley
Hanover, NH

Dinesh Bhatia
Design Automation Laboratory
ECE Department
University of Cincinnati

"Improved Algorithms For Two Dimensional Grid Routing"

for more information contact Fillia Makedon, Makedon@dartmouth.edu
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Dartmouth College, 6188 Bradley Hall, Hanover NH 03755-3551
email: David.Kotz@Dartmouth.edu    or   dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: wpi.cs,ne.seminars
From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Subject: Re: Ross Perot Petition Committee address
Reply-To: dlw@odi.com
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 14:18:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.234202.3969@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:

   rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
   >Could someone explain to me why anyone would ever consider
   >voting for Ross Perot?  Does he have any platform other than,
   >"I'm obscenely rich, and you're not" ?

   I don't get it either.  But they're active outside our front door, Ron:
   this afternoon I was approached in front of the Demoulas supermarket
   here in Somerville by a woman collecting signatures for the Perot
   campaign.

   Ugh.

As far as I can tell, his is just the latest "outside insurgent"
campaign, the latest of a line of people saying that the government is
composed of a corrupt elite that needs to be smashed.  It's a popular
message this year.  As Brown is looking less and less likely to be a
candidate with any hope of winning, I think Perot is trying to take
over the mantle (by being an independent candidate).

If Perot really does participate actively in the November election,
I wonder if he'll siphon off more Bush votes or more Clinton votes?
I don't think it's immediately obvious...
From: boomer@sylsoft.com (Richard Akerboom)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: time to get serious with dem pres and vp
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 21:46:50 EST
Organization: Sylvan Software
Reply-To: boomer@sylsoft.com (Richard Akerboom)
Distribution: ne
X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.5


In article <45918@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Apr01.172816.15936@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:
[... stuff about boring candidates deleted...]
> President: Natasha Nogoodnik
                     ^^^^^^^^^

Our next president deserves a last name!

Rich

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From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Want Tsongas back in the race?  Call 422-0100
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:30:13 GMT
Organization: Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcsun25.bbn.com

Tired of mud-slinging?  Want the campaign to get back to
a discussion of real issues?

Then call Paul Tsongas' headquarters, (617) 422-0100, and say that
you'd like him to return to the race.  He says he's going to
wait another day or two before making his decision.

-- 
Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com
From: borden@cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: Ross Perot Petition Committee address
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:55:34 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

In article <1992Apr15.132257.3952@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> olsen@kailasa.LCS.MIT.EDU (James Olsen) writes:
>richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:
>>I didn't sign any nomination papers for David Duke either.  Is there
>>anything wrong with that?
>
>I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this point.
>
>I would have signed a Duke nomination petition, even though I think
>he's disgusting.  To my mind, the only legitimate reason for excluding
>a candidate from the ballot is that his or her candidacy is frivolous.
>Any further ballot restrictions tend to subvert the democratic
>process, telling the voters "We think you're stupid, so we don't trust
>you to reject loonies like David Duke."
>
>Of course, I think Perot is neither loony nor frivolous, so the decision
>to sign his petition is easy.
>--
>Jim Olsen     olsen@mit.edu

Are you saying that we are obligated to sign a petition for anyone at all who
wants to run for President (excepting frivolous campaigners)?  Wrong.  No one
is obligated to sign any petition at all, for any reason, neither legally nor
morally.  Your argument against ballot restrictions applies to the election
mechanism itself, but in no way does it apply to the voters.  If Ross Perot
can garner enough signatures to put himself on the ballot, then he must be
allowed to run.  If David Duke gets enough signatures, then he must be allowed
to run.  That's democracy.  And if voters choose to passively prevent them from
entering the election by not signing their petitions, that's democracy, too.
Democracy in no way implies the obligation on the part of the citizens to help
candidates they would rather not see in office get into the election.



   - Dave Borden
     borden@m5.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: ne.politics
From: olsen@kailasa.LCS.MIT.EDU (James Olsen)
Subject: Re: Ross Perot Petition Committee address
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:22:57 GMT

richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:
>I didn't sign any nomination papers for David Duke either.  Is there
>anything wrong with that?

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this point.

I would have signed a Duke nomination petition, even though I think
he's disgusting.  To my mind, the only legitimate reason for excluding
a candidate from the ballot is that his or her candidacy is frivolous.
Any further ballot restrictions tend to subvert the democratic
process, telling the voters "We think you're stupid, so we don't trust
you to reject loonies like David Duke."

Of course, I think Perot is neither loony nor frivolous, so the decision
to sign his petition is easy.
--
Jim Olsen     olsen@mit.edu
From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
Newsgroups: ne.politics
Subject: Re: The Process of Choosing a President
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:57:09 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <DRG.92Apr15115238@bubba.ma30.bull.com> drg@bubba.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R Guilderson) writes:
>That would be a disaster.  The average American is too much of a moron
>to make an intelligent, reasoned choice.  For instance, just look at

In contrast to?  The average computer nerd? The average libertarian 
adolescent?


-- 


yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu

Newsgroups: ne.politics
From: ed@kronos.com (Ed Baker)
Subject: Re: Ross Perot Petition Committee address
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:08:47 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA
Disclaimer: This posting is a personal opinion and not that of Kronos Inc.


Wasn't he in the book, "Where Eagles Dare"?  This was a non-fiction work
by Ken Follet, and I really enjoyed it.  Ross Perot was the billonare who
surrounded himself with what he called, "eagles".  These were exceptionally
talented employees who went the extra distance.  When they got trapped in
Iran (or somewhere), Ross went the extra distance for them.

Anyway, Ross Perot was not a major character and I reccommend the book.

-Ed