HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Radio Information?
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:45:54 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU's message of Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:54:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.195410.11469@nntp.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:

>In article <1992Oct5.155936.21344@cs.yale.edu>, lower-tony@CS.YALE.EDU
>(Tony Lower) writes:
>
>> 	Kitten, the wardrobe is ... extremely appealing.  
>
>"I have to agree with Manx, on both counts. I like it, But Pegasus would
>kill me if I make too much of it. Now Thyra, on the other hand, would
>probably appreciate directions to the store." - Jason

"This is what I like about not having an SO... being able to ogle^H^H^H^H
appreciate outfits (or lack thereof) like this..."

>>   "_ANYWAY_... I said I had some business, and I do.  I have to get some
>> information about radios, both in terms of technical specifications,
>> and legal restrictions.  This is because of an innovation I want to
>> introduce to the LARP gaming organization I play with..."

>The solution I have seen used at most SCA events that use radios for
>security is a handheld, multi-channel CB, running about 5 watts of power,
>with a external, hand-held mike, an earphone, and a "rubber duck" flexible
>anteanna. [...] They are much more expensive, but are
>worth the money.

"You can also rent these, I believe.  Check the Yellow pages under "Radios"
or some such.  Most cons I've been involved with have done this-- they seem
to do a good job even deep within the bowels of a concrete-and-steel hotel."

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted
by the sea, circled by the circus sands, with all memory and fate driven deep 
beneath the waves; let me forget about today until tomorrow"  -Bob Dylan.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: EUCLID@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Arty .... Goodbye
Organization: C.C.S.O.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:52:27 GMT

Euclid has been fidgeting and fingering the lapel of her jacket.  Finally
she stands.  Thus spake Euclid:
 
The wind blows on an open sea,
The sea waves back and waves again,
The waves reveal their hidden dreams:
To sit out all eternity
Beneath an open sky and see
Their brothers evermore.
 
The waves roll on and roll again,
And crest as they approach the shore,
And then they crash upon the sand
And are no more.
 
"I do what i can", she said, and then abruptly vanished.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
ReplyTo: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Young Coot's thoughts... (was Re: Old Coots tests)
Distribution: world
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Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 15:16:34 +0000


In article <RANDOLPH.92Sep24220330@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM> randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) writes:
> Randolph smiles, "Ah, yes, the bad old days.
> 
> "The odd thing is, my current SPARCstation is sometimes slower in
> responding to the keyboard than an old PDP-11 (16 bits, 1 Mhz, 248
> Kbytes--yes, Kbytes--memory *tops*).  And -- damnit -- for most of
> what I do, that PDP-11 was just as competent.  E-mail, editing --
> well, maybe not some of the monster files I work with but smaller
> stuff just fine.  It had a screen editor.  You could have run emacs on
> it, if you had emacs.  It didn't have enough disk to handle Usenet
> (and neither does my SPARCstation)--machines that did had drums the
> size of sewer-pipes.  No-way enough memory to run a graphics
> application or a window system (curiously, most window systems don't
> make much use of graphics) and no-way enough CPU to run design
> simulations.
> 
> "There's a lesson there, somewhere."

Sod's Law of Computers - Software expands to fill the available Hardware.

"I should know - my PC flies along with DOS, but go into Windows and it's
not much faster than my old BBC Master! Ok, so I'm pushing the display hard
(a Trident VGA card doing 1024x768x256) but it could be considered something
of a 'downgrade' in performance terms."

"The other problem is that if you want to improve performance, you have to
fiddle with .INI files, and get better drivers for your display, comms ports,
etc. Small wonder then that their are so many 'get the most out of Windows'
books about, and all costing a pretty packet."

"As it is, I'll need a 16550-based serial card if I want to use a high-speed
modem - Windows manages OK at 9600bps with my current modem, but I wouldn't
fancy trying my luck going any faster right now. Hmph!"

--
Alan Ralph, AKA Kimberley MonTemplar (when in alt.callahans)
aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk  OR  mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Cominatcha' c/o Demon Internet Services - Internet for a tenner a month!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Holding on to the light
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:49:52 GMT
 <9w+pra+.aahz@netcom.com><1992Sep29.221630.13948@cs.mcgill.ca> <BvD7ss.HJ3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:24:27 GMT

In article <BvD7ss.HJ3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

>susan:
>
>>>>
>>>>I am sorry if the following post is not completely coherent.  I am 
>>>>trying to put many conflicting feelings into words.
>>>>
>>>>   [deleted]
>>>>
>>>>I try to hang on to the light, but I feel the darkness closing in and
>>>>I am just so tired.
>
>aahz has a WONDERFUL idea...
>
>>>Group hug!  Group hug!
>>>-- 
>
>>The Didi-Sprite looks up and calls out:  "Count me in!"
>
>
>kitten quits drooling at grant and joins the group hug!

Castellan wasn't drooling at Grant, but he joins the group hug anyway.


--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"I get drunk, drinking Guinness with Creme de Menthe in it. It's really
bad for you."  -Shane MacGowan.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: schools re: Old Coots Test
From: DPERRY@eagle.wesleyan.edu (DAVID M. PERRY)
Date: 1 Oct 92 12:25:25 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
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In <6517@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu writes:

> In article <keulen.717827108@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen) writes:
> >Splash puzzles about the use of an unfamiliar term: sophomore.  I've read it
> >before, but never worked out what one is.  Freshman (hasn't it turned to

Sophmore comes from Greek I believe.  Roughly translated means wise (soph, as
in the Sophic tradition) fool.  More accurately, it means smart-ass. Just old
enough to think you know something, too young to really do.

By the way, I'm a sophmore.

One of Jack's Crows.

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: sjg@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Susan Gavula)
Subject: Holding on to the light
Organization: University of Michigan
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:50:35 GMT


I am sorry if the following post is not completely coherent.  I am 
trying to put many conflicting feelings into words.

To all who knew and loved the Artful Dodger, I am sorry for your loss
and I hope that he is at peace.

Kateri:  This place, this wonderful place can give support to people,
but we need to know that they need it.  All they need to do is ask.
I am sitting here with tears in my eyes at work this morning over the
death of someone I never met.  I remember seeing him at the Place 
but we never talked.  If I had known he was in trouble, I would have
done my best to help him, as we all would for anyone here, or anyone 
in our own lives apart from here.  Remember that your friendship was
a bright spot in his life...  (Susan goes over to Kateri and offers her 
a hug)

And here is the tough part to say:

I am sorry for the loss, and I feel it very deeply, but I also....
am somewhat envious that he is free of this life.  Now, before I go on,
let me say that I am not planning on doing it, but gods...it is tempting
sometimes....and not to get back at people, not to hurt anyone that I care 
about.  That is the only reason I have not done it.  I don't want to 
hurt anyone, but for me alone, I want out.  

Part of this is physical reasons.  Living with chronic arthiritis can
be difficult.  Its scary as hell when you hurt so bad that you can't
think straight, can't read, can't move, can't do anything but lieeeeeee
lie there in agony, because the non-narcotics aren't strong enough for
the pain, and all narcotics do is make you feel stoned.  The scariest
part is that you watch it getting worse and worse over your lifetime
and you wonder how long will it be before you can't function at all.
I am 26 now...I do not remember the last time I was without excruciating
pain.  I know I was about 9 but I cannot remember what it feels like.

And I live with this pain every day; I go to work every day. I work
an average of 80 hours a week even feeling horrid.

Now on to the emotional reasons.  Its simple...I feel like I should 
deal better with the aforementioned physical problems than I do.  I
feel guilty for even bringing these feelings into the Place.  

I try to hang on to the light, but I feel the darkness closing in and
I am just so tired.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca  (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: October's Special Beauty!
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:06:19 GMT

----<--<*

OCTOBER'S  BRIGHT  BLUE  WEATHER
--------------------------------

O suns and skies and clouds of June,
   And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
   October's bright blue weather.

When loud the humblebee makes haste,
   Belated, thriftless vagrant
And, Golden Rod is dying fast,
   And lanes with grapes are fragrant;

When Gentians roll their fringes tight,
   To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
   Without a sound of warning;

When on the ground red apples lie
   In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
   Are leaves of woodbine twining;

When all the lovely wayside things
   Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
   Late aftermaths are growing;

When springs run low, and on the brooks,
   In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
   Of woods, for winter waiting;

When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
   By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
   October's bright blue weather.

O suns and skies and flowers of June,
   Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
   October's bright blue weather.

                   by:  Helen Hunt Jackson

	
Enjoy it now!  November with her wet winds waits in the wings!

----<--<*

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (L. Saiki)
Subject: Re: Cider 
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:42:19 GMT


Spacey said:
>> [yummy apple-cider stuff deleted]
>> 
>> Hmm, but stores sell the stuff on the shelf at room temperature...or is that
>> the not-so-great quality stuff?

Dirbze said:
>nah.... what they sell is the reconstituted-filtered-pasteurized-processed-
>preserved stuff called apple cider... unfortunately, by the time they are done
>with it it has no semblance to _real_ apple cider... sigh... and if you would
>like to try some hot apple cider, the best place I know of is The Inn
>Montezuma.. in Montezuma, Colorado... they keep heated on a wood stove which
>does double duty by keeping the lodge warm too...and when you take the lid off
>the pot, you find a concoction of cider, apple slices, cinnamon, cloves, and
>raisins...after a long day of cross-country skiing it is absolutely wonderful!

Spacey wails cursing Dirbze for making her mouth drool with the yummy
description of the juice that she will never REALLY taste in the near
future.  She walks over to Mike and orders the hot-apple-cider-from-the-
Inn-Montezuma, pays him for two glasses, and then walks over to where
Dirbze is seated.  She sets the two glasses down and then chokes him
jokingly.  

"This is for you!"  <smile>
"Thanks for the recommendation.  The next time I do venture off the 
island and decide to go to CA, I will try to stop by Colorado SOMEHOW
and try some of that....oh, and of course learn to ski too!!  I think
the shock of seeing snow for the first time will be quite immense, too!"

...<grin>
-- 
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
     The end!					 L. Saiki	
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: Cultural Exchange (was Re: Schooling)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:51:24 GMT

> [Liralen and many others talk about different school years]

Danger Mouse is thoroughly confused. "Here in New South Wales, we have
the very simple definitions of:
Kindergarten
Year 1 - Year 6 (Primary school)
Year 7 - Year 12 (Secondary or High school)
Then of course university becomes Tertiary education (we drop the 'school'
when referring to anything above year 12)."

>"Now..." Liralen grins a slightly wicked grin, "I have one for the
>Australians.  It deals with the insane game of Australan Rules Football

"Hmmm... not all of us can answer your question! Aussie Rules is only
really played in a few states. Other states, NSW included, play rugby
league instead - and that's the 'football' with which I'm familiar."

>(o.k. I'll admit, US Football probably seems pretty insane to you guys,
>or even boring for that matter).

DM grins. "Actually, I find American football strangely fascinating. How
a game with one hour of playing time can routinely occupy two and a half
hours of real time is quite intriguing...

"Now, just before I go - a quick request. Does anybody here have a copy
of the spring in Australia X-window I posted about this time last year?
I was going to repost it for all the newcomers, but discovered that I
don't have a copy myself. If anyone has one, please mail it to me.
Thanks."

- Danger Mouse.
From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Pet cats
Date: 26 Sep 92 12:12:31 GMT
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.

Greetings unto the bar from Damien.

Has anyone considered how hard it is to read the articles here with a mad
pet cat running around the house???

Mike there's a dollar.

Have you got anything to slow a small black cat down???

Damien.
Southernmost member of the bar.
--
`Of COURSE I was glad to get rid of him, he's flipped. He's got mad droid
disease! He kept waving a banana in front of me and calling it a femalE
aardvark'  --Red Dwarf, "Camille" 
Damien Saunders (Gunnar Njalsson [SCA]) Email: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cs_b173@kingston.ac.uk (Hotchkiss F G)
Subject: Re: Suicide (Was: Friends ... forever ...)
Organization: Kingston University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:00:59 GMT



In article <1a8moeINN6ci@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.151404.18466@openage.openage.com>, gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
>>I will miss Arty myself, but I can't help thinking that suicide is the
>>cowards way out.  I have talked many of my friends out of suicide, and they
>>are mostly better for it.  I don't think suicide makes your problems go
>>away, I think you will be forced to deal with them in the next life, or the
>>one after that.

[Chunk deleted.]

One of the things which was mentioned in the section which I have deleted
was that Life is much harder than death.
O.K., I'll give you that.
Before my last heart operation (and with a heart pacemaker and only age 24
I'll be having them regularly till I die...), I became convinced that I
was not going to survive. The knowledge of certain death (I was thankfully
wrong) brought me a strange calmness.
The following year, I found myself contemplating suicide.
These may seem unconnected events, and yet, in the first case I wanted to
live, in the second I didn't.
I won't go into why I didn't kill myself, or why I currently feel great.
Suicide, is not a cowards way out.
But it is a waste.
Whilst there is life, no matter how bad it gets, there is always hope.
And from now until I die, I will do whatever I can to help others see
that not only is tomorrow another day, but there's always another
tomorrow.

Live.
love.
be free.
be just.
HOPE.
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's is for everyone
Date: 3 Oct 1992 17:04:41 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct2.181108.7497@data-io.com>, li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
>It is *not* a bunch of people who have the professional know-how to 'help'
>everyone.  STM looks like he could use some help that *really* knows what
>its doing as opposed to a bunch of well-meaning, but rank amateurs.

Actually, what I needed at the time was sugar.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Pair of Caramel Apples (was Re: Thanks)
From: jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Birith)
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:25:51 -0500
Organization: Dept. of Physics

  "David, LOOK!!" says Phee.  "It's it *grand*?"  She holds up her crooked
  apple with the strands of caramel still hanging off both her arm and the
  apple, a few of which are now stuck to David.
  
  David laughs with the girl, and says, "Quite impressive, Phee.  Here... can
  I?..."  He gently plucks the strands from Phee's arm, and from himself, and
  winds it all into a ball of caramel string.  "Here..."  Phee grins, and
  accepts the ball, and then bites into it...  
  
  She blinks her thanks up at him and wanders off, chewing on caramel, the
  apple dangling at a dangerous angle from her hand.

*CHOMP*  ...and the apple disappears into a rather large dragon's mouth. 
Birith blinks innocently just in case anyone was watching and snakes his neck
over to watch Dirbze's replay of the review of the Iraqi terrorist `movie.'
The blue dragon notes, <<I think that was John Ockerbloom's post...>>, before
getting distracted by something else edible.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Birith (and P'relan)			"Just hear your voice
 jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu		 Sing all the songs of the Earth
 or jwwalden@miavx1.bitnet		 Nothing can come between us
 < Space for rent >			 You're a brother of mine" - ABWH
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Speaker for the Dead
Date: 29 Sep 1992 01:19:29 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep27.203419.12356@midway.uchicago.edu>, moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne) writes:
>"I feel like we failed him somehow.  Isn't the purpose of this place
>to take care of people?"

Only if they're willing to ask for help.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Song of Sixpence - Part Five
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:40:26 GMT

Kitten writes:
>>John writes:
>>She smiles, remembering the signs.  "Now, if I had set them up, they
>>would have said something like:
>>"This"
>>"Way"
>>"To"
>>"The"
>>"Egress..."
>
>>"With the last arrow pointing to a door that would enter back into the bar.
>>But then again, I always did like Barnum."
>
>"of course we could always do a burma shave ad....or even a _mad
>magazine_ version of a burma shave ad..."

      "Did any of you ever hear the Burma Shave song ?!? I did ! Back about
 1957. I also remember the signs...

   1. Pa aint good a quizin' but he shore do know how to keep Ma hizin
                                                               his-^^
    
   2. Yonder goes Willy, passing on a hill, he don't dress nice but he drives
      fit to kill !

  Hmm. Well, I thought I remembered more, but the mind is going, so thats
all folks... The above two items are from the song. Later, " DJ.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: That wretched bureau ...
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:17:19 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep25.164650.25763@data-io.com>, li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
="Congratulations on the consulting." she says and then steals a glance
=outside her window.  The sky is all soft grey.  Fall is coming here, and
=the storms have been coming through, recently, with great frequency.  "I
=rather like your weather reports and complaints." she says, "My job is
=almost exactly the opposite, I'm stuck in an office with my back to the
=windows, so I almost never really know what the weather's like.  It's nice
=to know that *someone* is in full contact with how the world wags."

StM look perhaps a bit jealous.  "You've got WINDOWS?  Wow!  Down here in the
subbasement, the weather's pretty monotonous:  60 degees Fahrenheit, 80%
relative humidity, day in and day out."
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Radio Information?
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:43:32 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana



>  Manx steps out of the shadows with a guilty expression on his face.

[    ]

>	Kitten, the wardrobe is ... extremely appealing.  My SO would
>		probably slug me playfully if I said anything more.
>		This would be alright generally, but right now, because
>		of my weekend activities, my entire body is a mass of
>		bruises.


kitten purrs a discreet "thank you" to manx...


--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
Subject: Re: a quiet introduction
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:10:50 GMT

JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Thyra)) writes:

>     I should warn you, whatever your nature, that you may well want to
>steer clear of the "Dragon's Breath" that Jason, Pegasus, and I favor as a
>mixed drink. 
Thyra please enlighten me by telling me the component's of "Dragon's Breath"

BTW The drink I usually have "Snake Bite"
1/2 beer
1/2 cider
dash of raspberry cordial  
Served in a 10oz glass

Damien - Southernmost member of the bar.

--
`Of COURSE I was glad to get rid of him, he's flipped. He's got mad droid
disease! He kept waving a banana in front of me and calling it a femalE
aardvark'  --Red Dwarf, "Camille" 
Damien Saunders (Gunnar Njalsson [SCA]) Email: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.callahans