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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: PA system mishaps
From: rocher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jean-Marc Rocher)
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:29:00 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

	In the larger auditoriums here the professors wear wireless microphones
that clip onto ties, shirts, etc.
	Earlier thi semsester, as I was sitting in the auditorium waiting for
class to begin, the professor of the previous class, instead of removing
the microphone and leaving on the table for the next professor, walked out
of the room still wearing the mike pinned to his tie, unaware that it was
still on and was broadcasting the conversation he was having out in the 
hallway to everyone inside the lecture hall.
	In this instance, nothing embarrassing or 'juicy' was said, but I
was wondering, is there anyone out there who has been witness to such a mistake
in which the professor _did_ say something that he or she would probably
not have wanted broadcast over a loudspeaker?

  Jean-Marc "would like to see something posted to alt.folklore.college
other than roomate/professor/architecht suicides" Rocher
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,misc.education
From: robinson@athena.cs.uga.edu (John's Girl)
Subject: Re: Roommates Suicide=Straight A's?
Summary: Emory's policy
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:59:42 GMT

When I was at Emory, the written policy on this was that if your
roomie killed themself then you could either drop out and recieve a
temporary 4.0 (you'd have to retake the classes before graduating), or
you could just go ahead and finish the term.
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From: hamlet@zeus.tamu.edu (Rosencrantz & Guildinstern are dead!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: PA system mishaps
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:32:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan26.232901.19842@husc3.harvard.edu>, rocher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jean-Marc Rocher) writes...
>	In the larger auditoriums here the professors wear wireless microphones
>that clip onto ties, shirts, etc.
>	Earlier thi semsester, as I was sitting in the auditorium waiting for
>class to begin, the professor of the previous class, instead of removing
>the microphone and leaving on the table for the next professor, walked out
>of the room still wearing the mike pinned to his tie, unaware that it was
>still on and was broadcasting the conversation he was having out in the 
>hallway to everyone inside the lecture hall.
>	In this instance, nothing embarrassing or 'juicy' was said, but I
>was wondering, is there anyone out there who has been witness to such a mistake
>in which the professor _did_ say something that he or she would probably
>not have wanted broadcast over a loudspeaker?
> 
>  Jean-Marc "would like to see something posted to alt.folklore.college
>other than roomate/professor/architecht suicides" Rocher

Actually, this really belongs on alt.folklore.religous, but here goes.  Back
when I lived in Dallas, the story was told of a preacher who was wearing
one of these wireless mikes for his sermon.  After the sermon, he went 
out to greet people as the left the auditorium.  As there was one or two
more songs and a prayer remaining in the church service, he answered the 
call to nature, with the mike still on, which cause a very loud tinkling
noise heard throughout the auditorium.  (I know this sounds like naked gun
2 1/2, but I heard this story before either movie came out!)

			--Hamlet
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From: mfrancis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Ma. Elena Y. Francisco)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Help needed with prank.
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:42:31 GMT
Reply-To: mfrancis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

>>>Here's the deal.  I need get back at a couple of girls for a prank they
>>>pulled on me last semester.  These are my requirements:
>>>
>>>1.  Something fairly impressive.
>>>2.  Takes some planning.
>>>3.  Fairly original
>>>4.  Minimal physical damage
>>>5.  Little or no effect on roommates.  (they live separately)
>>>
>>>I am at a loss, so I am open too all suggestions.  Thanks.


Well ...

This happened to my ex-roommate's boyfriend (now husband).

His flatmates had let all the newspapers accumulate and had a big
gigantic pile of them.  So they did something rather simple:  they
took the newspapers, separated them into individual sheets of newsprint,
and crumpled each and every sheet, threw it into his room.   Eventually,
the entire bedroom was *filled* with newspaper!!!

So, when he had come back from holiday, he opens his door, only to be
greeted by a mountain of newspaper!  Luckily, he had a sense of humour,
and enjoyed his little ocean of newsprint ...

cheers,

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From: jfe@alchemy.TN.Cornell.EDU (Brian Chung)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: PA system mishaps
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:21:15 GMT
Organization: The Loyal Taxpayers Pub

In article <1993Jan26.232901.19842@husc3.harvard.edu> rocher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jean-Marc Rocher) writes:

	Here at Cornell, Dr. Maas, who teaches Psych 101, told us that he
went to the bathroom wearing the microphone, just like that scene in
Naked Gun, during the final.  Is there anyone out there that con confirm
this story?

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (David J. Greenberger)
Subject: Re: PA system mishaps
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 29 Jan 93 01:33:22 GMT

rocher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jean-Marc Rocher) writes:

>	In this instance, nothing embarrassing or 'juicy' was said, but I
>was wondering, is there anyone out there who has been witness to such a mistake
>in which the professor _did_ say something that he or she would probably
>not have wanted broadcast over a loudspeaker?

I didn't witness it myself, but I did hear (from the professor himself, as well
as from a student) of a time when Prof. James Maas, who teaches the largest
class in the U.S. of 2000 students (we Cornellians like to brag about that),
went out to the bathroom while he was giving an exam, forgetting to remove the
mike.  When he returned, he got a standing ovation.  Since then, he's been
slightly more careful.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: PA system mishaps
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:00:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.232901.19842@husc3.harvard.edu>, rocher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jean-Marc Rocher) writes:
|> 	In the larger auditoriums here the professors wear wireless microphones
|> that clip onto ties, shirts, etc.
|> 	Earlier thi semsester, as I was sitting in the auditorium waiting for
|> class to begin, the professor of the previous class, instead of removing
|> the microphone and leaving on the table for the next professor, walked out
|> of the room still wearing the mike pinned to his tie, unaware that it was
|> still on and was broadcasting the conversation he was having out in the 
|> hallway to everyone inside the lecture hall.
|> 	In this instance, nothing embarrassing or 'juicy' was said, but I
|> was wondering, is there anyone out there who has been witness to such a mistake
|> in which the professor _did_ say something that he or she would probably
|> not have wanted broadcast over a loudspeaker?

Can't say this has ever happened here, to my knowledge, but a friend of mine
did make an interesting discovery...

In the campus radio station, there's a whole WALL of patchbays that lets you
mix different signals within the radio station - including some (in and out)
marked DCC 308, DCC 318, DCC 324...

The DCC just happens to house the main campus lecture halls, all the ones that
are wired for sound...

8)

He has yet to make good use of this information...

|>   Jean-Marc "would like to see something posted to alt.folklore.college
|> other than roomate/professor/architecht suicides" Rocher

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From: cuy@usc.edu (Dennis Cuy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Speaking of tuition/grades...@MIT
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:40:06 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

Hello netters!

I've been reading this newsgroup for only a few weeks and have seen
a lot of posts on suicides/GPAs/tuition refunds/etc.  I thought I'd
throw in my $0.02 - hopefully this hasn't been posted too many times
before...(translation-"easy on the flames!" :-)

At MIT during the early '80s, freshman year used to be pass/fail (is
MIT back on grades for freshmen, now?).  I think my frosh year '82,
was probably the last full year that this was done.  Rumor had it that
sometime in the '70s, a lot of freshman had killed themselves over
all the work and the grades that they were getting - the year becoming
known as "leap year" :-).  And, because of that, the Institute made
the freshman classes all pass/fail.

I think a lot of freshmen wound up taking advantage of this system by
taking tough courses during their first year knowing that whatever
grade they got, it didn't matter as long as they passed.  That's when
MIT started having 1st term pass/fail, 2nd term hidden grades, etc. and
just fazing the policy out.

Anyone else hear this or know if that's why MIT had pass/fail?

Dennis Cuy

e-mail:  cuy#d#dennis@ssdgwy.mdc.com
[Usual caveats apply...]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: jbc@linus.mitre.org (John B. Campbell)
Subject: Re: Vestiges of FORTRAN, Memes and Syntax (Was: Re: i is for iteration)
Organization: Research Computer Facility, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:33:05 GMT

In article <1jgvadINN5ir@uk-news.uk.sun.com> alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com (Alec Muffett - Sun IS -  System Administrator) writes:


>   In article ABA@brunel.ac.uk,  cs92njc@ccws-39.brunel.ac.uk.ac.uk (Nicholas J Clayton) writes:

>  >Does anyone know the circumstances that surround "i" being adopted as
>   >the most common name for a variable in a loop, "for(i = 0; i < 10;
>   >i++)" and so on. Is it simply becuase it is the first letter of
>   >"iterate" or do the reasons run deeper than that?>

>   I believe (definitely the case in my instance) that it's from FORTRAN.

 [ . . . . ]

>   ---
>   Alec Muffett (alec.muffett@sun.co.uk) Sun Microsystems IR, Bagshot, Surrey, UK


It's hard for most computer folks to imagine a world without computers,
but really, there once was.

Pick up any engineering or mathematics textbook of the middle fifties,
and observe that all the variables used for indexing (e.g. in
series expressions) are taken from the set i, j, k, and l.  The
upper limits of such index variables are typically m, n, M, N, etc.

Engineers and mathematical analysts grew up with this kind of
nomenclature.  So, when FORTRAN arrived in 1957, with the goal
of becoming an intuitively easy FORmula TRANslator, it was
important to employ terminology that was familiar to its
targeted engineering and scientific user community.  





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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:01:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:

>In article <1993Jan26.195449.7728@sctc.com> boebert@sctc.com (Earl Boebert) writes:
>>How did they bury Tom Watson?
>>
>>Face down, 12-edge forward.
>>
>>(One for the old.farts)

>Isn't it "Face down, nine-edge first ?"

Depends on if you want to read him (9-edge first) or punch him (12-edge).
(Anyone familiar with a 2540 or its ilk should recognize the reference.)

On the other hand, given yesterday's news (and the financial news from
IBM over the past week or two) maybe the first line of the joke should read:

            How did they bury IBM?


Joe Morris
From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:17:41 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

God save the Queen,8,1
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you
Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
Reply-To: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
Organization: Cisco Systems (MIS)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:53:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.143049.12206@spectrum.xerox.com>, hdavies@rx (Hugh J.E. Davies) writes:
>I have a 15 year old DECUS RSTS SIG T-shirt that reads;
>
>I'm a twit biddler.
>
>Regrettably it seems to have mysteriously shrunk, particularly around
>the waist.

EHPL !'I MRTPAEP DNIISEDT EHP PD1-!1
-- 
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                such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
                                                        --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@leland.stanford.edu                              _The Lost Road_
From: kogoma@triton.unm.edu (Taki Kogoma)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: So you want to be an apprentice
Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:14:36 GMT
Organization: Nit-Pickers for a Better Tomorow Afternoon
NNTP-Posting-Host: triton.unm.edu
Keywords: Everybody wants to be a wizzard, but we forget that before we become wizzards, we have to be apprentices sometime. We all forget the dumb things we did when we were new.

In article <26JAN199311152931@rover.uchicago.edu> frank@rover.uchicago.edu writes:
>	To commemorate this, I suggest forming apprentice awards, based upon
>	the sci-fi character of Wuntvor, apprentice to Ebenezum the wizzard,
>	(thrust into a starring role when his master becomes allergic to doing
>	any magic.) The award should be the "Wuntie"
>
>	Here's my submission, a piece of code to convert a date string in the
>	form 11-JAN-93 into a form that works out to be day of century. It of
>	course has to account for leap years...
>
>	MOV	(R1)+,R5	;YEAR IN R5
>	BIT	#3,R5		;IS YEAR DIVISIBLE BY 4?
>	BNE	NOTLPY		;NO ITS NOT LEAPYEAR
>	INCB	DAYSMO+2	;INCREMENT # OF DAYS IN FEB TO 29
>	NOTLPY:

At the risk of reopening a well-known can or worms, this code fails to
take into account the "No leap-year in '00' years except those which
are evenly divisible by 400" stipulation...

(At least, that's how I recall the Gregorian system to work...)

-- 
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 I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior to
                          what I have now...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: VIC-20 returns!
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut and Ferengi Tavern, Deep Space Nine
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:05:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.122919.21205W@viper.edb.tih.no> terjej@edb.tih.no writes:
>As a joke and as a remembrance of my first computer-days,
>I bought a VIC-20 with a cassette-player yesterday.
>
>Hell, humorous suggestions will also be appreciated - just remember
>that with 3.5k Ram there are SOME limits to what can be done...

I've got a boxful of game cartidges and tapes I can send you.
I've even got a speech synthesizer, and a tapeful of BASIC programs I
wrote to drive it. 

But, as you all know, I run System V on my VIC-20...

mdw
(not that one again...)

-- 
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  "Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?"
From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Pentia
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:44:49 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In <23JAN199316325658@rosie.uh.edu> Lee Preimesberger wrote:
> #If a "586" is a Pentium (pl. Pentia?), then are 386s trivia?
> 
> 	Hmm, then I guess the P6 will be ye-cleppen the "Sexium."  I can 
> hardly wait for the ads! :-)

Nah.  They'll call it the "Hexium" and theme the adds around some Hollywood-
style witch with a black hat and nose warts.  This will righteously piss off
all us neopagan hackers, but Intel won't care 'cause it knows we bought
SPARC 23s (the workstation so cheap they *deliver* it in a pizza box...).

:-)        <- close-captioned for the humor-impaired.
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
From: anadeem@ampere.alt.folklore.computers (Ahmed Nadeem)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: MRI and CT-SCAN Images For Dogs?
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:48:25 GMT
Distribution: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: /home/ampere1/anadeem/.organization

Netters,
      I am currently working on a research project that involves construction 
of realistic, solid or geometric models for dogs.
      Does anyone know where I can get serial section images( MRI, CT-SCAN, 
etc ) for dogs?
                                                       Thanks,
                                                              Ahmed Nadeem
From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Atari Notebook (Was Re: Atari 1450 XLD)
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:12:34 GMT
Reply-To: hdavies@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox Ltd.

In article 5554@ringer.cs.utsa.edu, sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>
>A bit off-track, but I remember seeing what looked like a small (notebook-
>sized?) computer in the film 'Terminator 2', that had the Atari logo.
>
>So, is Atari in the notebook computer business? Or was this merely a prop?
>
>Simon
>

[snip]

It wasn't a prop. Atari sell a sort-of-PC compatible palmtop called the Portfolio,
which is what was used in Terminator 2. I believe it has 128K memory, a non-PCMCIA
RAM card interface, LCD screen. It was designed in the UK by a firm called DIP
who (so the story goes) didn't have the marketing muscle to sell it, so licensed
it to Atari. DIP also make a 512K version which Atari don't sell, and I have one
of those. If you have a look in comp.sys.palmtops, there is a lot of discussion
of such things.

All things considered, I wish I'd bought an HP95LX.


---


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From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Subject: Re: Integers (was Re: Number of numbers (Was Re: PI))
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:04:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.235205.17533@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus  
Olsson) writes:
> In article <1993Jan19.211613.6498@wam.umd.edu> davei@wam.umd.edu (The  
One True Dave) writes:
> >In article <1993Jan19.195921.14196@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se  
(Magnus Olsson) writes:
> >>If a number is an integer or not has nothing whatsoever to do with
> >>what it looks like in any particular base.
> >>
> >>One way of defining integers is the following:
> >>
> >>a) There exists an integer called 1.
> >>b) Every integer n has a successor n'.
> >>c) Every integer n except 1 has a predecessor m, i.e. there exists an
> >>   integer m such that m' = n.
> >>
> >>This defines the non-negative integers.
> >>

These resemble a subset of the Peano axioms. There are five axioms, not  
three (and I prefer to include zero as a number):

	1. 0 is a number.
	2. Given a number n, its successor n' is also a number.
	3. If m and n are numbers such that m' = n', then m = n (no two  
	   numbers have the same successor).
	4. If n is a number, then n' != 0 (zero is not the successor of  
	   any number).
	5. If P is a property of numbers such that
	     (a) P(0) is true,
	     (b) P(n) ==> P(n') for every n,
	   then P(n) is true for every number n.

Axiom (c), above, is not one of the Peano axioms, but it can be derived  
from them. Specifically, let P(x) be the property "either x=0 or x has a  
predecessor" and apply axiom 5.

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
From: jsc@doc.ic.ac.uk (Stephen Crane)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:03:33
Organization: Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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