From: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu (Mehul Sanghvi)
Subject: catching up...tapesh, manish & maneesh
Reply-To: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: /usr/ug/1993/msanghvi/.organization
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:48:24 GMT




'allo folks

  well i finally forced myself to sit down and play catch up to the over 150
articles i had to go thru.  quiet a few things i missed.  about the only thing
i have posted to is Amithi's SF list but then that was about half an hour ago.

now here's my $0.02 on some of the things going on. 

Tapesh:
~~~~~~~
1. why am i on acua-i??
 
   a. to find a place thats better then sci for some serious (yet fun)
      discussions .
   b. to get in touch with new people and meet them (unfotunately
      you t.y. have been as elusive as the scarlet pimpernel ( where that came
      from dont ask me! it just did!!) )
   c. to find out about what other people from similar backgrounds think on
      diffrent topics.
   d. to post test messages that let me test my emacs code!!!! :)

   funny could've sworn there were more reasons then that!! o'ell! some other
   time 


2. i think it was you who said something about strangers calling you up etc.

   i usally dont mind strangers calling me up but i like to have had some sort
of an interaction with them over the net. so if you t.y. or some of the boston
based folks or ucb.long.hair etc. called i wouldnt mind. on the other hand if
people i have had no interaction with call out of the blue ... i'm not to
amused but i wont be rude 'bout it either.  the worst is having people call
you collect!!! thats the part i dont like.  needless to say me and my
roommates dont accept any.  it has been the case in the past that i am not at
home and some i have never heard of calls collect and my roomies accept it
thinking i know the buggers.  anyways time to move on to another topic.  


Maneesh ( not ucb.long.hair )
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

everyone else has already said this to you but i think i will to.  mixed
marriages work.  and they work just as well as any ia-ii ia-ia marriage does,
sometimes even better.  there had been a discussion in this group about
problems in the so called strong indian family unit sometime back.  i guess
you missed it.  anyone out there know of a archive site for this group??
maybe maneesh can get a look at some of the stuff that was written in that
discussion.  that will at least change his opinion on the fact that marriages
within our ethnic community work very well.  at least it would let him know of
the failures as well and to what degree they are.  and like G.I Joe says
"knowing is half the battle"  ( i had to put that in somewhere!!  sue me!!
what ya gonna get from me anyways!!! )


Manis @ ucb
~~~~~~~~~~~

you actually have a logical state of mind when doing compilers???  you sure
you're not feeling sick in the head???  about the only state of mind i am in
when doing compilers is wanting to pull out my hair ( that way i dont have to
go to the barber as often :) 

compilers just drove me up against the wall and onto the ceiling!!  about the
only state i can think of that comes close to describing it is
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but poetry is something else, there are no words to describe the feeling or
state of mind when reading poetry/SF/shakespear etc.  oh and of course
watching ST: TNG and now ST: DSN and reading the Batman comics.  or even
watching tom and jerry/scooby doo/flinstones/jetsons/pink panther/bugs and
gang/etc 



well i think i've ranted on enuf.

feels good to be back.



live long and prosper  \\//  ( four fingered vulcan )


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