HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Congrats -- It's A Girl!!
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  21:30:54

brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au  writes:
>   At one minute to eight this evening, Friday the eleventh of
>December, Jennifer Rhiannon McNamara was born, after thirty two
>hours of fairly difficult labour by Robyn. At the moment she is in
>a humidicrib, because she found this breathing business a bit
>difficult for a two and a half week premature baby.
  
   Wales lifts his glass in salute!
   "Congrats!  I went through that 2 short years ago.   Get all the
sleep you can, you're going to need it for the next several months."
   "You'd also better get set laying in supplies -- you're the
primary provider for the next couple of weeks.  Some large sanitary
napkins, cotton swabs, nursing supplies, infant supplies, etc.  I
hope you've got most of the stuff already, but you're going to be
rushing out repeatedly over the next couple of weeks to get what you
haven't got yet."
   "And on yeah -- remember, if the baby's sleeping -- you sleep
too..."
  
    Wales leans back and scratches his head.  "Well, I don't think
we'll be hearing much from the Brumby for a while.  He's gonna be
busy doing other stuff.   But if he's out there  -- here's a few
random suggestions..."
   "Get some help lined up, or take a couple of weeks of vacation.
In our case, my in-laws came down and stayed for 3 weeks.  It was
wonderful to have helping hands around then.  And when they left, I
took 2 weeks of vacation.  That 5 weeks was just about enough time
until Dynamic Duncan was starting to sleep through the night.  So
when we had to tackle work and baby simultaneously by ourselves, we
were able to get enough sleep."
   "Also -- three things we found really worked out well.  First --
get a good child seat.  You'll need it."
   "We found a baby swing/rocker worked wonders in getting the baby
to sleep.  It was suggested to us by a friend who reported she
'didn't get a hot meal for 3 months' until she got one.  We found it
worked really well in getting the baby to quiet down and go to
sleep.  Even worked better than dad in a rocking chair."
   "And get a good wireless baby monitor.  It'll allow you and mom
to listen in without having to stay in the room with the baby.
It'll come in handy if you want to go into the other room and do
something else, but still keep an ear on if the baby's still asleep.
Dynamic Duncan is 2 now, and sleeping in a youth bed and getting in
and out of bed by himself, but we still use it in case he falls out
of bed or starts to cry in the middle of the night.  Not necessary,
but a good purchase for piece of mind."
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 Wales Larrison                         Space Technology Investor

--- Maximus 2.00
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Jesus and Quantum Physics (was Re: Summing up all of Christianity in one statement...)
Date: 13 Dec 1992 08:35:02 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: seurat.wag.caltech.edu

Snark says ...
>>I believe that Jesus was both a particle and a wave.

>>Wait-- I think I'm confusing science and religion again. :-)

Amanda says ...
>And still people look at me funny when i answer "What religion are you?"
>with "Physics major"....

Abner says ...
"Gee, does a follower of physics as a religion come up with apostulates and
theolories?"
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I Froze in California
Date: 17 Dec 1992 09:24:05 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: seurat.wag.caltech.edu

STM says ...
>=Abner thinks for a second, then remembers something.  "Oh, one of the reasons
>=I'm chuckling ...  I just found out that my furnace has broken down!  In the
>=meantime, I have no heat ...  I'm an east-coaster, so I'll survive, but until
>=then I really am freezing in California!"

>??????????  I've been thinking that maybe, in a month or so, if it gets
>considerably colder, it might be time to think about lighting my furnace.

"Yes, but you have fur ..."  =8)
From: bownes@crd.ge.com (Keptin Komrade Dr. Bobwrench III)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A Toast - To my friends
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:35:25 GMT
Reply-To: bownes@crd.ge.com
Organization: School of Corrective Phrenology


I stand before the line, bathed in the light of reality (and a harsh
light it is) wondering what the correct fluid for my glass should be.
In reality, it would probably be tequila, so, tequila it is. I've never
been one for hiding out. Spin doctoring at it's finest perhaps, but not
hiding out.

There are times I get tired of alt.callahans. Times when the dragons,
daleks, capes, smoke, mirrors, and general fantasyland really annoy me.
Then someone reaches out and tries to help someone. Not often anymore,
but it does happen.  And it is so easy to reach out through this one
way screen. Easy to ask for help, easy to offer help. There is no
risk.

Yet, when I've hurt lately, I've been oft tempted to come here to ask
for help.  But the hurt I suffer has no easy andswers, no noble words
will ease the pain.  It is hurt of my own unintentional doing. Hurt of
pain suffered by friends that I cannot do anything about. Hurt
comprable to watching children grow up.  Hurt that can only be solved
by looking for answers alone again. Hurt of being alone whilst
surrounded by friends, who oft try to help, but it disturbs the the
answer quest. Hurt of rejection for good reason. Hurt of having given
good reason.

So, I walk quietly to the line. Raise a glass, and say (tabs and everything :-))

	"Beth, I'm sorry.

	 Friends, I'm sorry I feel I've let you down.

	 I will try to do my best, but I might need some help now and then."

and toss the glass lightly into the fireplace, no ricocets, no flames, no
special effects. Just Reality.

And to the folks on alt.callahans: Thanks for listening.

---
Bob Bownes, aka iii "The only way I know where the train will go is when I'm 
sleeping on the tracks" -M. Etheridge
Warning: This may contain opinions. They belong to me, not to Aule-Tek, 
Sun Microsystems, General Electric or anyone else. But you can rent them.
From: lower-tony@cs.yale.edu (Tony Lower)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Utopiae (Was: Amanda wants to be a Kesh)
Date: 16 Dec 1992 12:44:36 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: jaguar.zoo.cs.yale.edu

>  [deleted for space - Big Al talking about different people's utopias]
>
>>>actually, I do have a point, lemme ramble a little more)  But, life is not
>>>(as a rule) what we make it, so sometimes we get to, er, 'step back.'  
>
>>Splash pipes up:  "Au contraire my friend ... I'm interested in a
>>philosophy called Conscious Reality Creation - `life is what you make it',
>>on some level.  One of my favourite phrases is `If life sends you lemons,
>>make lemonade!'  Just a comment ..."

  Manx suddenly perks up.  "And for another comment... this is an example
of my favorite quote" (which I can't remember who said, and like that,
so I'm not going to attribute it!  so there!)

   "The opposite of a simple truth is a falsehood.  The opposite of a
profound truth is another profound truth."

  "Life is not what you imagine it to be"
           AND
  "Life is what you imagine it to be"

!!!


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Subject:  Lost connections
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 19:56:00 GMT

Gyspy whirls harder and harder but even as a polychromatic
whirlwind of incredible speed she still cannot break the 
barrier between herself and her mail server.  

Hopefully this problem will be cleared up soon, but I wanted to
let you all know I am having technical difficulties and I am
not ignoring my friends.

Rowan (Gypsy Woman)

Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
The wheel of the year is turning now.  The season of darkness stretches before us like a great and sunless sea.   Listen:  the stag bells, the summer has gone.  Winter winds blow wet and cold, the sun is low, short its course, the sea running high.  Deep red the bracken, its shape lost; the little wren finds no shelter for her nest; the wild goose has raises its familiar cry.
*****************************************
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 09:33:25 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: seurat.wag.caltech.edu

Michael Schiffer asks:
>	"Hmm... but wouldn't an intersection of a hypersphere with a
>plane be a circle?  Or has my mathematical intuition decayed even more
>than I feared?

"Well, unless I'm still fuzzy on the concept, the intersection of a
hypersphere and a plane would be a filled-in circle ... in other words, the
set of all concentric circles with a radius smaller than the radius of
the hypersphere.  However, I am not a mathematician, so I may well be
wrong ..."

"Come to think of it, I might well have been wrong even if I had been a
mathematician."
From: HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61000)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hats
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:50:18 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

>{Deleted: much diccussion on hats.}
>> I think we do it just to be perverse.  I do know that nowadays, tipping
>> your hat to a 'lady' still gets a reaction (usually puzzlement).
>
>Anachronistic behavior is typically viewed as vaguely boorish.
>.....not that this should stop you, of course.  If you move to
>the west coast, you may even be able to bring it back into fashion.
>
>doug
>.
I _Always_ tip my bicycle helmet when people let me pass. They usually
smile.
Hats: Bell V1 -PRO cycling helmet, much abused.
Knit snow cap (The kind that usually have pom-poms in top) with no
pom-poms, but with ear flaps (Like one of the RH Chilli Peppers wears).
27 baseball caps,
5 painters caps
1 beanie, with propeller (gag gift)
1 opus-like umbrella hat (gag gift)
3 english driving caps
and 1 thinking cap (beanie with lightbulb)
>.
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Humor (was prejudice)
Date: 19 Dec 92 04:01:29 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:

> Impu-Sebek shrugs non-commitally (sp? I think I'm missing a t, but I'm not
> sure).  "I guess I'm a little more vindictive, Splash.  There are people
> in the world who are truly evil, truly beyond understanding.  I suppose if
> I glory in their pain (which, again IMHO, they richly deserve), I am evil
> in turn...but I never claimed to be pure in any sense.  I'm a composite of
> blacks, whites, and greys.  Subject to change without notice."
> 
> "Ekho?  I would appreciate your input on this, if I am not unduly disturbing
> your game.  I believe you know about vengeance, and conflict."
> 
  With a raised eyebrow and an ironic smile, Ekho replies, "I suppose 
that you could say that.  My own thoughts on this differs from Amanda's, 
of course, because we are from two radically different environments.  
Upbringing such as Amanda's in times of relative peace bring about her 
beliefs in wishing no real pain on anyone (you can tell we've argued 
about this many times, can you not?).  She would rather relieve the 
"evil" person's pain, thus ending their reason for bringing pain to 
others.  My own beliefs have changed ever since I have come to this 
universe.  When I was first created, I had little or no "humanity".  As I 
gained experience, I wished to change that for myself; I spent much time 
learning, developing... But it was at that time that I believed in 
rewarding pain for pain.  Strict vengeance, coldly delivered.  My 
life taught me the value of justified vengeance, something I still 
believe in.  But something that is not applicable here.  I hope."  Ekho 
glares at a soapbox which had attempted to materialize under her feet but 
was now backing off.  Amanda sighs and buys Ekho another Adrenalin and 
Soma, "Maybe our... aquaintance will stop by.  He'd be interested in this 
discussion, don't you think?"  "Perhaps," Ekho answers, sitting down once 
more.  "I'd be interested in hearing more on this topic, myself..."

  Amanda adds, "Sorry for the sloppy arrangement of the paragraph; it's 
late."  She looks at the words looming over her head, both figuratively 
and literally...

               Yours in Time and Space
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: seduction
Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:11:13 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson) writes:

>"Worst music for sex is: the 1812 Overture, the William Tell Overture, Ravel's
>Bolero (which always shows up on `romantic music' compilations... ick), and
 ^^^^^^
>Frank Zappa's "G-Spot Tornado", 

What's wrong with Bolero?  Works fine for me; only problem is you can't
hear it at the beginning, and it's not long enough ;-)

I agree that it depends very much on the tastes of your partner - doesn't
everything?  It certainly should!

Splash!



--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Newbies on the March
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:52:04 GMT
Reply-To: aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Me again (amanda@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: In article <STEVE.92Dec9132657@styx.crc.ricoh.COM> steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky) writes:
: >"Ever since I first learned about it I've been using the ANSI numeric
: >format for dates," says the Mandelbear.  "It's yymmdd, so that today
: >is 921209.  
: 
: Funny... i started using that format for diary/notes right *before* i heard
: about it....

"I use the ANSI format for places where I want the dates to sort(although I
put dashes between the numbers to avoid confusion), but otherwise I use
mm/dd/yy.  It just seems more logical to me that dd/mm/yy...but I suppose that
devotees of the other form say the same thing.  De gustibus non est
disputandum."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"I never gave it a thought, I never thought I should think
 I would go along with anyone and anything"  --Rupert Hine
Current Album--Jean-Jacques Goldman:Entre Gris Clair Et Gris Fonce'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Michael Wasson)
Subject: My kingdom for a decent mailer...
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:47:40 GMT

Gecko-boy has spent all morning re-wiring his EE project. His
table is covered by a layer of stripped wires, sockets,
burnt EPROMs, and angst. 

" .... frkknfrakken EE class frkkknfrakken BS requirement frkknfrakken
.... I'm a @$%^#@ philosophy-drop-out, not an electrical engineer 
..... I can't even change the frkknfrakken batteries in my
walkman, how do they expect .... blah blah blah."

Finally he stops for a break and walks over to the bar. "Black'n'Tan,
Mike."  He plunks a Susie B on the counter.

"I've been missing posts thanks to the mailer here ...  Well,
now I have semi-access to a remote site which means I can read,
tho' I don't have posting priveleges there yet.

"But anyhoo, I've missed a lot of news, much of it sad, some of it
otherwise. Nick, you have all my condolences about your friend Ken.
When you have to see someone through to the end like that ... well,
for me anyway it was overwhelming. About 5 years ago my father's
boyfriend turned up positive; my father soon followed. I was never
in the position of being primary care-giver but I know *some* of
what you were saying about getting to know all the details of the
illness, and being with this person while they're going through
something *you* can't know or fully share.

"And to Liralen, who recently lost an old friend as well."

Gecko-boy pauses, not sure what to say. "Um, I'm bad at articulating
stuff like this ... but if either of you guys need an ear, or a scaly
shoulder to cry on ... "

He shrugs, hoping they know what he means.

"Happier news is Ignatz and Mary-w-a-T (hey, can I get that cough-syrup
recipe? Hot damn, what was *in* that stuff?) and a veritable slew of
newcomers and returnees. Amanda + Ekho [whose name sort of eckoes my
own ;-)], Rounder, Chudrys, Philip from Huntah College (I was there
for two semesters -- still the same? Do the escalators still break every
day?), Darkshot, Merlinvin, Chris ... did I forget anyone? If so blame that 
infernal EE project for blowing my EPROM....

"...and let's see, we got a name for our sailor (Hi Nonny!), an amazing 
feat of final-paper reconstruction from Abner, and a filk from Jason
that had me guffawing and snorting in the computer lab."

Gecko-boy raises his glass for a toast.

"To Callahan's ... through pain *and* joy. And to Alfvaen, of
course, and his return."

<crash!>

The Geck'

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Mike Wasson                     | "It could be you. It's a sky-blue sky. 
mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu  | Satelites are out tonight."  
University of Hawai'i           |                          (Laurie Anderson)
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From: lower-tony@cs.yale.edu (Tony Lower)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:59:42 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: jaguar.zoo.cs.yale.edu

In article <1992Dec14.205316.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> pcahn@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>Not one to miss a pizza dis action, I'd say that it's parsley our own fowl-t
>that this string bean going on.  But lettuce continue.  I don't know about     
>y'all, but most of my friends don't carrot all about puns.  Gotta run, I'm
>going to the pool to swim.  Endive.
>
>Rounder ;-}   

Vinagrette my hands on the guy who started this thread... Oooh!

						-- Manx
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: So much for dramatic exits.
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:49:31 +0000

In article <1992Dec11.041557.21233@atlantis.uucp> aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
>There is a bit of an embarrassed cough and Alfvaen shimmers back into
>existence, a look of relief on his face.  "Well, that wasn't very long, was
>it?
>
>"At suppertime tonight, I got a phone call from a guy named Dan Berry.
>Sherwood, the sysadmin at Space Physics, put me in touch with him, because he
>runs a UUCP site called Atlantis off of his home NeXT, from a feed at the
>University.  And he was receptive to the idea of giving me an account...  So,
>boom.  I had an account.

Welcome back, Alfvaen! Congrats on getting a new account.

>"So here I am, back again.  I'm not quite sure how email to me works...perhaps
>those more knowledgeable about UUCP sites could say.  But I think that bouncing
>it off of uunet.uu.net will work, or for that matter bouncing it off
>ualberta.ca somewhere.  My feed won't be instantaneous, either, but still
>better than nothing.

Your nearest backbone site (eg. uknet.ac.uk here in Britain) will handle a UUCP
address if your site won't, I believe.

>"There are still a bunch of old messages from Sep. 3-9, Oct. 14, and Nov. 18
>on disk here, as well as more recent ones from up to a week ago.  Very strange,
>if you ask me.  I hope those aren't all the time the newsfeed's been
>functional here...but, then, beggars can't be choosers.

If it is an erratic feed, I daresay you can persuade someone here to keep you
informed of the goings-on in alt.callahans.

>"Hey!  I'm back!  My anticipated bout of with newsfeed deprivation is cut
>quite short!  Whee!!!!!"  Alfvaen goes into a jig of glee and celebration, and
>only stops when he snags a glass from Mike, chugs it and holds it high.  "To
>Usenet and UUCP!"  The glass crashes into the fireplace and explodes in blue
>flame.  Denizens of the Place wrinkle their noses at the smell of ozone...

Phew!

>--
>---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
>Current Album--ABBA:Super Trouper
>Current Read--Poppy Z. Brite:Lost Souls
>-- 
>---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
>Current Album--ZZ Top:Greatest Hits
>Current Read--Poppy Z. Brite:Lost Souls

--
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+VAT a month!
Note: redunser is NOT associated with any other site of demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: A Toast - To my friends
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:14:00 +0000


Bob says...
>And it is so easy to reach out through this one
> way screen. Easy to ask for help, easy to offer help. There is no
> risk.

there is a risk, I think, even if just that someone might laugh or 
misunderstand. When you try to help, you give a piece of yourself, 
sometimes literally (thanks Merrigold).
> 
> Yet, when I've hurt lately, I've been oft tempted to come here to ask
> for help.  But the hurt I suffer has no easy andswers, no noble words
> will ease the pain.  It is hurt of my own unintentional doing. Hurt of
> pain suffered by friends that I cannot do anything about. Hurt
> comprable to watching children grow up.  Hurt that can only be solved
> by looking for answers alone again. Hurt of being alone whilst
> surrounded by friends, who oft try to help, but it disturbs the the
> answer quest. Hurt of rejection for good reason. Hurt of having given
> good reason.
Yeah. I think I've been there. There are no easy answers but every 
question is usually it's own answer if you phrase it right.
I think that much as the friends here and elsewhere help - all your 
answers and healing come from you. If I say mine have, that isn't me 
being arrogant or rejecting the wonderful friends I've found here and 
elsewhere, it's me valuing my own contribution to my own life, which 
only I can live in the end. But you can get so much help and love and 
support and ideas from others - this can enrich your life, if you 
take the time and effort to make it a life. Any answer that's worth 
giving isn't easy to give to to hear. This isn't easy to write (and 
if my typing is off not easy to read). Reach out when you're ready. 
rememeber you have to move on and that things will move on without 
you or with you. Life *scares me sometimes, but remember it *can be 
wonderful.

> 
> So, I walk quietly to the line. Raise a glass, and say (tabs and everything :-))
> 
>         "Beth, I'm sorry.
> 
>          Friends, I'm sorry I feel I've let you down.
> 
>          I will try to do my best, but I might need some help now and then."
> 
> and toss the glass lightly into the fireplace, no ricocets, no flames, no
> special effects. Just Reality.
> 
> And to the folks on alt.callahans: Thanks for listening.

Mary walks to the line beside him

"To the journey and the travels and the turning of the year. Life and 
love and living"
<crash>




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