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Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
From: sbrack@jupiter (Steven S. Brack)
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:21:03 EST
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jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
: In article <OLDMAN.92Oct8163114@titan.ucc.umass.edu>, oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) writes:
: 
: |> 	Sometimes, they ask ME, even when there IS someone on duty...	
: 
: But of course, it always helps if the person who needs help 
: it an attractive young woman!!
: 
	Or just an attractive person.  8)

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From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Grand Designs (was Re: permanent temporary buildings.)
Date: 8 Oct 92 04:36:06 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens


Any other overblown college plans from the past?
>
>   Dan Tasman                                       


Yes, as an avid fan of the University of Georgia's history, we have a
few of our own. As U.Ga. afflict-cianados well know, the campus is
divided into the aesthically-enrapturing historic North Campus
(liberal arts, law, business :^P, fine arts) and the soul-wretching
South Campus (hard science, math, CS, ag, vet...you get the point)
which is full of ugly-o-rama sixties' metal buildings. The original
plans would have extended them more than three times there current
scope. Thank God for budget cuts.

In the sixties, there were also plans for a campus-wide monorail
system, which also never saw the light of day. (We have the best
campus bus system in the country, though.)


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ization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 12 Oct 1992 20:51:20 MST
From: James Cassidy <IFJXC@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject:    Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks

This semsester, I work in a lab in the education building here at Arizona
State, and most of the users are less than computer literate, as are their
professors.  Because of the superb instruction these future and current
teachers recieve, they are often clueless as to what they are really doing.
This applies to their mainframe sessions "How do I get to the Mail Machine?"
When they login to the VMS, they telnet from a PC, and they also use some
generic word processors and such.  These students will print something, and
then come and look at me like a lost puppy dog.  I'll ask "What machine did
you print from?" and they will answer "IBM".  I will say "mainframe or PC" and
they will look stupid and say something witty like "huh?"  Since they
have no idea what they are doing, I have finally refined my questions to
ones like:
             "Are you printing on striped or plane paper?"

To distinguish between the high speed line printer for the mainframes and the
laser printer for the PC's.  I've given up trying to explain the fact that
their mainframe ("yes, e-mail") output can go to any one of 8 printers on
campus and usually defaults to one that is not in my lab.  I get questions
like "But I am sitting right here, doesn't the computer know where I want
the printout to go?" and "why did you send my printout to another
lab when you know I am in this one?"


Uploading and downloading files between mainframe and PC is truely a lost
cause.

I do like my job alot, and I really like helping people who can ask intelligent
questions, but most users that use this side of campus are truly puddin'
heads.  My day is made when someone asks a intelligent question, even if it
is easily answered.

Jim "Striped or plane paper" Cassidy
From: s884764@otto (Grant Waldram [Atom Smash])
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: The name says it all...
Date: 8 Oct 92 05:05:56 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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percival@qut.edu.au writes:
>	On the subject of meaningful names for our places of higher learning
>the New South Wales Institute of Techology (Nizwit) was granted university
>status a few years ago, and is now the University of Techology, Sydney (Uterus)

Well, down here, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology just joined with
the Philip Institute of Technology, so we have the Amalgamated Royal Melbourne
and Philip Institutes of Technology... aka ARMPIT

Works quite well.

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From: h2m@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (JA)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Sinking libraries/ Naming Hollow Institutions
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:57:14 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

In article <OLDMAN.92Oct6203837@titan.ucc.umass.edu>,
oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) writes: 
> 
> In article <1992Oct06.214939.27676@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>> Are you sure you're not at North Dakota State University??
> 
>> WOW!!  And their library is "slowly sinking into the ground."
> 
> 	But isn't EVERY school's library "slowly sinking into the ground"?
> 
> --
> Tig Stone 
> (oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu)


...probably because the engineers forgot to account for the weight of the
books, right?

The brand spanking new Kroch (pronounced crotch by everyone but the librarians
and the administration) Extension library here at Cornell doesn't have this
problem.... they built it underground to begin with. For two years Cornell
was the Ivy with the hole in the middle; it was a hole waiting to become
a Kroch. Kroch Extension has numerous possibilities for bad puns too....

I like the fact that part of the reason it was underground was so that they 
could display their prized rare works without sunlight damage... there is 
a very nice desplay room, with 50' ceilings and skylights (one foot above 
ground) which the librarians say let too much light in to safely display their
rare works... so they are going to have to get new hooded cases just like
the ones they just got rid of..... oops....

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From: meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J. Meltsner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: permanent temporary buildings.
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:54:35 GMT
Reply-To: meltsner@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Research and Development Center



In article <EACHUS.92Oct5095415@Dr_No.mitre.org>,
eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:

|>In article <genBn0200VokQfqFZJ@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jonathan R. Ferro" <jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|>
|>   Building 20 at MIT was built during WWII to house the MIT Radiation
|>   Laboratory (translation: top-secret RADAR research, the "radiation" was
|>   centimeter-band radio) and was slated to disappear when the lab did.  If
|>   they don't start demolition soon it'll be eligible for National Landmark
|>   status and they'll never get rid of it....
|>
|>   You mean it hasn't been made a historical landmark yet? 

Historical landmark, or a Superfund site.  The walls are
asbestos/plywood composites, and a serious* problem if drilled or
removed.

Actually, I believe they plan to take 20 down when they've finished
all of the expansion on the TRW Carr site, but I can't imagine they'll
actually do it.

*No discussion of asbestos and whether it really is hazardous, please.

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GE Research and Development Center  | Fax:  (518) 387-7495
P.O. Box 8, Room K1/MB207	    | Nothing I say should be attributed
Schenectady, NY 12301               | to my employer, and probably vice-versa
================ Materials and Manufacturing, World O' Stuff ==================
From: schuyler@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Schuyler (Go Braves!!) Stultz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer centers, leaving oneself logged in
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:44:15 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

In article <Bw2u1K.J52@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> jage@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (I like redheads.) writes:
>The other day I was sitting in lab next to a friend of mine.
>She told me about a really idoitic computer user.  It seems
>this person she observed had a really easy password.
>
>She said, "It was all X's."     
This reminds me of a secretary we had at my co-op job.  We'd had problems with 
people who knew a "little" about computers playing with her configuration
stuff giving us a headache later.  So the other CS co-op wrote a little
program to ask for a password.  Instead of displaying something boring like
X's, he had it echo smiley faces (yes this was an IBM AT).  He installed the
program for her and showed her how to use it.  She said great, fine, see you
later.  Ten minutes later she called back wanting to know how to get "Those
little smiley faces back on the screen."  Later that day, after she left,
we drew a little smiley face on her keyboard for her.  Out boss didn't find
it NEAR as funny as we did.  Oh well.
-- 
The world looks mighty good to me      | S. Schuyler Stultz
'Cause Tootsie Rolls are all I see.    | schuyler@csugrad.cs.vt.edu 
Whatever it is I think I see,          | Schuyler.Stultz@bbs.oit.unc.edu 
Becomes a tootsie roll to me           | Va Tech CS Dept undergrad 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Macs in Computer Labs
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:40:37 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

I have noticed that the Macintosh has become the
computer of choice for computer labs at my alma
mater (University of North Dakota).  It seems the
easiest computer for the rock-stupid users to 
learn.  When I see Windows running in a computer
lab, I cringe.  To easy for the users to screw up
in major ways.  

But, there are still people who manage to screw up
even Macintoshes.  Jim, a friend of mine worked in a
campus Mac lab and related a story about a certain
fellow who has a little confused on the function of
the mouse.  He complained to Jim that the icons
didn't work when he clicked on them.  So Jim went out
to check it thinking that the mouse was damaged.  When
he asked the guy to click on an icon, the guy lifts up
the mouse and taps it against the screen!

Jared "Now I've heard it all" Dahl 

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| Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
| IBM - Rochester, MN    |              -- STYX,  "Mr. Roboto"      |
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Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.
From: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: New logos (was Re: Iowa State University Towers)
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:25:26 GMT
Reply-To: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Oct11.191222.10373@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
>In article <1992Oct11.173222.18869@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike) writes:
>
>>>  Also, the building I'm currently living in seems to have a floor
>>>missing...the floors are numbered 1, MZ, 4.
>>
>>My theory is, they took it out and put it in Carman, which goes 1, MZ, 2, 3,
>>etc...
>
>But how'd they get the floor out of Jay without all the residents there
>noticing a big THUMP?

  They did it during the summer, of course.

Jonathan Lennox
jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
From: schuyler@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (S. Schuyler Stultz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Naive users
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:25:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

I can't really call this frosh using computers since it happened at the workplace...
I'm the CS co-op for an electronic motor manufacturing firm.  We've had many problems
from one secretary in particular.  One day about 4:55 she came bolting into my office
wanting to me to tell her "WHY THE *&%$ MY SCREEN'S LOCKED UP."  As it turns out she
was trying to print and her printer ran out of paper.  
When I remedied the problem and told her did I get a "Oh thanks."???  Yeah right.
All I got was "Well If it happens again I'll let you know."
-- 
The world looks mighty good to me      | S. Schuyler Stultz
'Cause Tootsie Rolls are all I see.    | schuyler@csugrad.cs.vt.edu 
Whatever it is I think I see,          | Schuyler.Stultz@bbs.oit.unc.edu 
Becomes a tootsie roll to me           | Va Tech CS Dept undergrad
From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Mexico
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:26:38 GMT
Reply-To: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu



	Omar told me this one himself.  I'm sure there is much more.  I

	would have liked to have been there.


		Omar was about a sophomore in High School and having just
	gotten his liscense, he wanted to drive down to Mexico with his
	girlfriend and go shopping.  I suppose the trip went ok though
	Omar has enough trouble communicating with Americans much less
	Mexicans.  Well it seems that as Omar was coming through customs
	on his way back, they stopped his car, looked in and decided to 
	yank him out.  They had mistaken him for a Mexican.  He didn't have his
	passport but did have his driver's liscense.  They took him in a little 
	building and questioned him.  The whole time he was proclaiming his US
	citizenship.  "I am a US citizen!  I was born in Austin!  Can't I even
	move freely in and out of my own country?"  They finally called Austin	
	and verified that he was born there.  The whole time that this was
	going on, his girlfriend was still sitting in the car.  
		After he got home he wrote to his Senator about the injustice
	of being mistaken for a Mexican and being practically arrested.
	
                                       -Henrydm@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Figment of Omars Imagination
Date: 12 Oct 1992 16:48:41 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

                     You may find this one humorous and maybe not.

			  "Omar Stories"


	(Daemeon reaches into his bag of Omar stories and pulls one out.)


		Let's see.  Here's one.



		First, I think I should give a really good description	
	of Omar.  Omar's family is from Pakistan but he was born in Texas.
	He takes German and really wants to go there.  You could say that
	he is a Pakistani Texan German Wannabe.  He is about 5'7" or so and 
	is sort of dark complected with has black hair that is always a little
	too long.  He has a very funny voice. Too imitate the effect, either
	put some peanut butter in your mouth or hold your tongue semi-rigid
	as you speak.  I don't want to offend anyone but the reason he talks 
	funny is because of his hearing aids.  It's true that we do spend an
	inordinate amount of time ripping on Omar but it isn't because of his
	hearing aids.  That would be juvenile.  His utter cluelessness to the
	workings of reality is far funnier than a couple of hearing aids.

		Well, Omar is not the most social creature in the universe,
	though he tries.  I got sick of Omar whining to me about women so I 
	taught him about all of the positive points of internet, sort of a 
	Hitchhikers Guide to Meeting Women over Internet.  This was a mistake.
	I now realize the true geekiness of attempting to meet women over the
	net.  (This is an all male school)  Omar however spent about 18 hrs a
	day in some sort of internet virtual reality composed of muds, bbs and 
	irc.  Omar's then-roommate Jeff decided to give him a small dose of
	reality.

		Jeff began leaving notes from a fictitious female named Stacy
	on Omar's door.  These notes always appeared while Omar was at class.
	They would always say something like: "Omar, I came to see you but you
	were at class.  Maybe next time. Love, Stacy"  Omar, thinking that this
	was someone he met on internet proceeded to post his schedule outside
	his door for his mysterious visitor.  She returned a few times only to
	find Omar at class.  One day she get really upset with him and Omar
	returned to find that she had set fire to his schedule.  Of course Jeff
   	was doing all of this himself.  One time we even sent him email from 
       	anonymous mail account in the pc lab from stacy that she was looking 
	for him.  He ran all over the building looking for her, convinced that 
	she was here. After about two weeks of this he gave up and was quoted 
	by Jeff as saying "It just seems that every time someone comes to visit
	me, they are a figment of my imagination."  NO one ever came to visit 
	Omar in	the past 2 years that we can remember so whoever these people 
	are that Omar is referring to certainly must be figments.     

             	Again, I would like to hear whether or not you like this one.

				-Daemeon
 				 Henrydm@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: lat1553@venus.tamu.edu (TEDESCO, LAUREEN ANN)
Subject: Re: Computer centers, leaving oneself logged in
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: heh
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:20:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.035657.20195@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes...
>In article <Oct.6.22.58.14.1992.14680@pilot.njin.net> mancuso@pilot.njin.net (Tina Mancuso) writes:
>>
>Well, if a student wants the resume printed oriented to the watermark, fine.
>It still seems stupid to me. 

It's not just resumes that should pass the watermark test.  I had a graduate
professor (he taught research methods and bibliography) who told us real
scholars turn in their work on bond paper, with the watermark reading in
the same direction as the text.  Since this takes extra time, a friend of
mine turned in her paper and then WAITED to be sure he checked the watermark.
So, whether anyone ever checks or not, it's now a habit for me.

Laureen T.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jhh4889@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.H. Huebner)
Subject: Re: Computer Operators
Originator: jhh4889@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:19:41 GMT


My favorite was in Baker lab at CMU we has a 1 foo by 4 foot sign that read
"DO NOT EXIT" taped across the double fire doors at eye level. It was
ripped in the center where a user had opened the doors to get out.
From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: New logos (was Re: Iowa State University Towers)
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:09:17 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Organization: University of Arizona

In article <OLDMAN.92Oct6203837@titan.ucc.umass.edu>, oldman@titan (Tig Stone) writes:
>	But isn't EVERY school's library "slowly sinking into the ground"?

Another Curious Fact(tm) about the U of A is that for many of the buildings,
the ground-level floor is number 2.  This includes the library...

It turns out that the real explanation is that, for reasons known only to
itself, TPTB decided that all floors were to be numbered starting with 1
at the lowest floor.  This means that the ground floor is always numbered
one more than the number of basement floors.

-- 
--- jumbo shrimp --- pretty ugly --- awfully nice --- constant change ---
From: st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Elisha Fara Landman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Tuition Increases (WAS Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:34:12 GMT
Reply-To: st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

Here at Brandeis, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the 
MOST EXPENSIVE school. (for two years straight). Also the financial aid
office tends to give Frosh, and unbelievably high financial aid, and
then when they apply again at the end of freshman year, students usually
don't receive as much... but they are only notified of this when they get
back to school (the first week). A good percentage cannot come back because
this, and subsequently have to leave once they got here first semester sophmore year...
it really is a shame

Elisha Fara Landman - st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu