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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:42:24 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: I hate the registrar.

Bear shambles into the bar looking dead tired.  Drop his bag and watches
it fall to the floor in some grotesque form of slow motion and listens
as the echo reverrate through the bar.  He wipes the sweat off his brow
and plops down a dollar bill.
	"A bottle of gatorade."
	Mike Reaches under the bar to a 'frigde and pulls out a 12 oz bottle.
	"I said A bottle not a demitasse."  Bear says doing his best to sound
annoyed although dead tired.
	Mike puts away the small bottle and pulls out the family sized
container which Bear promtly upends.
	"That was good."  
	With a slight flip over his shoulder he lands the bottle smack dab in
the middle of the fire place.  "To the registrars office and the hell
they put me through today!"
	"A screwdriver mike."  Bear says as he plops down a dollar and walks
over to the hot tub and settles in.  He then starts removing his now wet
clothing."Its amazinghow nize it feels to be in wet clothing whne you
don't have to be:)"
	Bear Reaches out of the hot tub and pulls out a sword and a whetstone
or is that wetstone:) and begins sharpening it.
	"See its like this.  I was registered for a calc class with a 9:30
lecture.  I knew that I was registered for it.  I didn't really give it
much thought until today.  anyway when I took a look at my schedule i
found out that It was at 10:30.  The same time as my physics 2 class
both of witch were manditory.  So I went all over campus getting
information and signatures when dun dun duh I was aobut to get the last
one to clazrify the problem I was informed that the registrar had
foulded up and I really was supposed to be taking a 9:30 class but it
just SAID 10:30  You try running for half an hour with a 50 pound bag. 
I was a bit steamed.  So I went into the class 15 minutes late.  Then on
through my classes and then I realized that I had another conflict two
clasees over lapped by half an hour.  one was a core requirement and the
other a lab that i should have taken last semester but couldn't have
becasue it wasn't offered.  But it turns out that the lab's lecture. not
the lecture that the lab goes with was held at 2 times and either one
could be attended so it all worked out.  Thabnks for listening to me
rant aobut my petty problems.  I hope you gained a modicum of enjoymenty
from my misery because I sure did.  I love whining creatively.

Noone ever accused me of being nice!
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: In which SEA gets a job
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:01:23 GMT



>Taking SEA's hand, DJ smiles and says "Robbie was probably still doing bar-
>bee-cue and missed the new instruction set.  No harm done.  I see that there
>is a great celebration going on here.  What have I missed?"

>Amidst the cheers and laughter, SEA raises her voice and says, "I propose
>a toast."

>"Huzzah!" comes the reply from her many friends.

>Making sure that all have glasses in their hands, she says, "To the right
>job and perserverance."

>CRRRRRRRAAAAASSSSHHHH!!!!!

>DJ looks a little puzzled but before he can ask, Didi-Sprite races to his
>side and says, "Isn't it wonderful?  Our SEA has found a job that she thinks
>will make her happy and keep her busy learning for quite some time!"

>Lord Galdrin bows before the happy SEA and says, "I am more than happy for
>you, please explain more about this job."

[    ]

>"Oh, I guess that I should tell you what I will be doing.  Wollongong
>Group writes networking software for all sorts of platforms.  I will be
>spending half-time doing customer phone support and half-time doing
>administrative assistant support.  It is an opportunity to learn about
>different operating systems and about networking software.  I will be
>working closely with engineers again, which is what made me answer the
>ad in the newspaper.  I start Thursday (9/3) morning.  I'm excited, they're
>excited,  life is good."

>Smiling at all her friends she raises another glass and says, "To
>good friends wherever they may be!"

>*CRASH*

kitten hugs the mandlebear one more time..."see, what goes around
comes around...just have faith in the great wheel of life..."  then
she joins all and sudry around sea..."i am so glad for you...i knew
your patience would pay off."  kitten hugs sea and hugs dreamy
jim..."i am glad you survived the hurricane."


--
***************************************************************************
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

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From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: A square grand
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:52:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.233735.16822@sequent.com> rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>Yep, one sure fire way to stimulate the economy is to have a good
>war....

Yep, one sure fire way to stimulate your sex organ is to drive a nail
through it.  Doesn't mean you'd necessarily want to.

But, back on topic, if I had a million --

Let's skip a dreary hypothetical discussion of how I'd invest it, and just
assume I find a good deal on an annuity.

I'd spend, oh, $80k in conscience money.  Never you mind!

Then I'd cut my working hours in half, going temp if necessary.  Assuming
the change in my circumstances inspires me *not* to spend all my time
reading netnews, I'd study a lot.  I might try to go back to school, but
more likely I'd seek out an extropian enterprise like Xanadu and say, "I'm
bright and eager to learn; will you hire me for peanuts?"

My living space wouldn't change much.  I like living in the city, and I'm a
natural slob.  I'd buy a few toys like a waterbed, two or three vehicles (a
motorcycle, a van or pickup, and a small but powerful car), an extra phone
line or two, some musical instruments (always wanted to learn), maybe some
computers and accessories.

I'd also try to upgrade my wardrobe from "nerd who hates to shop"....

I'd buy a thousand copies of THE MACHINERY OF FREEDOM and send them to
politicians.
-- 
D Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
From: paulf@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Fischer;OpenAge(SWR))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Openage.com joines Binkley
Date: 4 Sep 92 02:57:28 GMT
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

Hi All,

The Golden Gryphon here.  At 3:00 pm I shut my system down.  I then found it
would only boot part way.  It seems some files are corrupted and I will not
be able to fix it until monday.  I'll be off the net until then.

TGG
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: A square grand
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:59:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.220213.12174@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:
>"I'd get myself a Color NeXT computer, and a gigabyte hard drive or two.  (I
>amass >lots< of data, and this way I could archive a newsgroup or two.)

Friend, you don't know what >lots< of data is if you think a couple of
gigabytes would do you for more than a few months.

>I'd make my computer an Internet node--probably hiring a consultant to get it set
>up and maintained, since I know very little about running an Internet node.

There's not really a whole lot to it, especially if you can afford to buy real
software.

>I'd call it azpiazu.ab.ca or something like that.  I'd give NeXTs to a few of
>my friends, notably my brother, who I'd dearly love to see on the Net sometime.
>They could be subnodes of azpiazu...  I'd get a few other kinds of computers,
>basically the top of the line in Macs, Amigas, IBMs, etc.  Maybe I'd just rent,
>so I could always keep up with the State of the Art.

You really ought to consider something with an operating system.

>"I'd get loads of computer games, but probably never play most of them, since
>I rarely do.  I'd print out a list of the albums I have currently and the
>albums I wouldn't mind getting, and make a >big< order from some record store,
>or Columbia CD club or something.  Of course, I'd have to get one of those home 
>entertainment centers with everything from a turntable to a CD player to a VCR
>and a big-screen TV.  Anyway, I'd probably have to keep some of my tapes since
>I imagine some of the stuff I have isn't available on CD.  (Say it's not so!)

It's not so.  You can have your own custom CDs cut.
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:57:00 -0400 
From: John Charles Fiala <jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Limberick: (Get this one!)

Something that made me think of the place!
-john
"Yes, [AIDS] is probably a message from God.  It's God trying
to show us how mean a healthy man can be to a sick man."
jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu    -- Joe Bob Briggs
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From: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Re: Next Shuttle launch (was Re: MagiCon Weather Report)
Date: 28 Aug 92 03:44:50 GMT
Reply-To: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va.

re: Zero Gee Human Reproductive Experiment

Not on this flight.  The prudes at NASA have put them on opposite
shifts.  This I think is in retaliation for them having gotten hitched
after the crew announcement had been made.

Besides, according to rumor, it's already been done on both the shuttle
and MIR.

Zero grav's awkward for lovers
Especially pushers and shovers
The problems of docking
And then interlocking
Are greatly increased when one hovers.  (sorry--couldn't resist)

Magicon or Bust!

Frank Ney N4ZHG
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: I hate the registrar.
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 05:21:06 GMT

In article <geagJUO00awV8C1UtV@andrew.cmu.edu> Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

**Bear's comments deleted for the sake, (not sake) of saving
bandwidth**

Well, I couldn't very well hate the registrar at the college I went
to...  The registrar was my Dad....  He was also my adivsor.  The
only thing he ever did that really pissed me off was to let me get
all the way up to graduation time, and then tell me I was 1 credit
short.  So, I didn't get to go through Graduation with the rest of
the 65 people in my class...


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From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen)
Subject: Re: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:43:12 GMT

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>Hmmm.  Now, I'm not a marine biologist, but I grew up on the Chesapeake, so
>things like marine grasses have always been of some interest to me.  I was
>under the impression that relatively small changes in temperature could affect
>the chemistry of the water (via such things as changing gas content), and that
>could have a big effect on marine grasses.  Is my impression wrong?

No I don't think your opinions wrong at all - my $.02 was merely based on very
simplistic, off-the-top-of-my-head assumptions; ie. that the system isn't
polluted and is well-flushed (has good water exchange with the ocean, etc).
Under polluted conditions the oxygen balance would be far more critical, and
could easily be upset by a slight temperature change.  Similarly, if the
exchange of the water body (eg Chesapeake Bay) is restricted, stagnant pools
could occur, and upset the oxygen balance.  Under _pristine_ conditions
however, a change in temperature of a few degrees shouldn't upset the water
chemistry and gas content significantly.  As far as I'm aware a change of a
couple of degrees wouldn't have a serious impact on the dissolved oxygen level,
for example.  I could of course be wrong - I'm not really crash-hot on water
chemistry, and I'm open to correction by more chemically-oriented folk :-)

All of my work so far has been done in the open ocean, in shallow, near-shore
areas which are well-flushed.  I guess I haven't really done much _applied_
work as yet; I'm collecting baseline information on physical factors in
seagrass meadows.  For some peculiar reason there hasn't been a lot of work
done in this field.  Eventually I'd really like to work on seagrass
recolonization, and pollution impacts.  I have a particular interest in oil
pollution in general.

By the way, Chesapeake Bay is one place I've always dreamed of visiting, purely
for the seagrass, if for no other reasons!  (Not that I'm putting down the
other reasons - I just haven't read about them in my research :-)   )

Cheers for now!
			Splash!

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: esti@quads.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin)
Subject: Re: DM's telescope postcard - 2
Reply-To: esti@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: U. Michigan Cognitive Psychology
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:41:54 GMT

>20:06 - Jason and I just went outside to check the weather. We actually saw
>a star! It was alpha Centauri - only the third brightest star in the sky.
>It was shining fitfully through the cloud. What chance to observe my
>quasar, some 15 million times fainter? (I have also changed from my shoes
>into slippers. Much more comfortable.)

Hey, at least you *can* see Alpha Centauri!  I remember reading about
our closest neighbor star as a kid, and being really disappointed that
I couldn't see the bloody thing.  Wrong damn hemisphere, they told me. :)

Seriously, glad the clouds finally cleared and you saw your quasar...
may your nights be cloudless from now on!

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:05:10 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: A square grand

just about all the money i ever wanted.  Hmm lets see.  I would get
myself a nice secluded house someplace  Alaska perhaps.  A sweet
computer setup.  Run games off of an amiga and read news off a cray(of
course I would have a bodacious anonymous FTP sight):) Sattelite dish,
TV.  I plan to live way out in the boonies.  Perhaps a small electronics
lab to fool around in.  Of course the standard pay of parents house. Buy
immediate family members cars.  Then perhaps I would take a year off or
so and bum around the planet.  Drive down route 66 in an ragtop Mustang.
 See the world Rio, syney, berlin, London, Moscow, St Petersburg, Rome. 
See jsut how well you can live in New York City.  Definately hold a
party with everyone in a.c.  HOld it like between christmas and new
years.  Just rent a hotel.(I am pretty sure you can get good rates like
that)  Then I would work on all the little projects kicking around in my
head and start writing.  I don't think I would just give money and such
away to family and loved ones though.  Perhaps "loan" it to them.  And
let them deal with when they pay it back and how.  Perhaps do a kind
stranger type of thing.  Mailing big checks to random people.  Or
gettign bums back onto thier feet on the condition that they do that for
someone else.  Thats about it.

Noone ever accused me of being nice!
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: n3robert@student.business.uwo.ca (Nigel Robertson)
Subject: A Million $$$'s or More
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:12:14 GMT

What would I do with a windfall million?  Easy.  I'd make the perfect 
fantasy life come true in full materialistic fashion.  First I'd buy a 
rustic - yet palatial - home on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Oregan.  
Next, I'd hire some domestic help to manage the household (cooking, snow 
removal, lawns etc...).  Of course, every meal would be exquisite.  I'd 
buy a Cessna for day-trip vacations.  I'd read every book I could lay my 
hands on.  I wouldn't work unless I felt like it.  I'd entertain famous 
and interesting people.  And, finally, if I had enough fun at all this 
I'd write a book or make a movie about it, get another million, and start 
over!

n3robert@student.business.uwo.ca (Nigel Robertson)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET (JIM PIERCE)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Curtis Scott re: Senseless Death
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:11:23 GMT


 { another attempt to post... }


"John I knew him also. He was a past president of CoastCon. Yes,
CoastCon in Biloxi. His wife was president of CoastCon this past year.
We had known that he was up in Pennsylvania because he had recieved
a fellowship awhile back. That might have come to an end, I don't know
for sure what University is was to. He was on his way to GenCon, a
game-only Con when he was killed. He was one of the co-designers for
the game-system called 'Talislanta.' He was buried in
Huntsville, Alabama last week. My sister told me he had been
killed in a car accident. We were going to go, but Huntsville was just
too far for us. Mary Scott was to be our Fan Guest of Honor for
CpastCon XVI in April, 1993. I don't know if she will be there now or
not. Curtiss is survived by his wife and small boy." DJ.

<Crash !>


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "NickD." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Cmp Sci
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm a computer operator and I'm Ok !" me.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: nicki@ibmpcug.co.uk (Nicki Trasler)
Subject: A brief re-entry etc.
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:32:11 GMT

After a long absence (yet again), Nicki walks into the bar once more.

"Hello people!"

By the fact that her skin is a slightly less pale shade than usual, one
might deduce that she's spent some time in the sun recently.

"Well, I've terribly out of touch recently.  Aside from general dossing
and doing nothing, I've spent 10 days on holiday on the Isle of Wight
with Michael (my SO).

"After that, I went with some friends to a folk festival at Cropredy, a
small village in Oxfordshire.  (If you've ever heard of Fairport Convention,
they have an annual bash there.  This was my first year there but I hope it
won't be my last!) It was there that one of those amazing coincidences
happened.  Out of approximately 15,000 people camping in six fields, who
turned out to be in the tent next to me, but my uncle, aunt and their two
kids!  Even then, we might not have recognised each other or at least have
had the courage to ask, but for the fact that they had seen my graduation
photo only a few days before at my Grandma's.

"Anyway, the holiday's the main reason I've been out of circulation.  That
and the fact that I'm finding it awkward to get access to the modem and PC,
with my Dad doing a lot of work on it.  Still, never mind, once I've caught
up with what few articles are lying around on this machine, I'll try to
stay caught up this time....  I don't have any other holidays planned!
Though I imagine I'll not be much more than a lurker most of the time."

She turns to a certain sprite, "Didi, I'm sorry I didn't answer your mail...
I've only recently read it.  I'll write soon, promise!"

She starts walking to the door, remembers something, and turns back to
face people.

"Oh, if any of the UK people are free this Sunday and fancy going to London
to the Proms with me and a few friends, drop me a line.  It will mean
getting there early to get a good place (about 9.30) for the concert which
is at 3.00, but we won't have to stay there all the time in the queue.
Crash space available (the folks are on holiday) for Saturday and Sunday if
necessary and there's also the possibility of a food orgy afterwards. (Diet
tomorrow style.)  I know this is a little short notice, but you can let me
know by phoning me (0442 246977) or just turn up at the Royal Albert Hall
(near South Kensington tube station) sometime around 9.30am this Sunday.
(30th August.)"

With that, she leaves the Place, to catch up on her sleep and on the
last few day's posts.
-- 
Nicki Trasler
nicki@ibmpcug.co.uk
nicki@hicom.lut.ac.uk
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From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Survey forms
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:25:35 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

In article <9208241116.A04412@ius.indiana.edu> jevans@ius.indiana.edu (JEVANS) writes:
>
"Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?" Jilara's system
queries her.  She presses "y" because *she can't help
herself!!*
>
>Current Name: Jilara
>Alter Ego: no, I like my present ego just fine, thanks	
>Birth Date: Which life?
>Birthplace: See above
>Residence: State of Mind
>Sex: Occasionally
>Gender: Human
>Sexual Orientation: Northwest
>Marital Status: Belted---oh, you said *marital,* not martial?
>Offspring: The mainspring's broke, too.
>Siblings: partial
>Blood type: red
>Hair: long
>Eyes: two
>Height: statuesque 
>Dominant Brain Hemisphere: what brain?
>Physical Deformities: third eye
>Music Preferences: music
>Favourite Books: too numerous to list
>Pet Peeves: things done in standard bureaucratic forms  ;-)
>Favourite Movies: of yeah, I saw some of those, once...
>Least Favourite Activities: filling out forms seriously
>Most Favourite Activities: yes, most of them
>Quotes that can be attributed to me: You can attribute them
all to me, if you want.
>Hobbies: It's not a hobby, it's a lifestyle!
>Political affiliation: does that mean you have to be friends
with them?  Politicians?!  Ick! 
>Allergies: fools
>Occupation: most of the time, except when pre-occupied
>Favourite Foods: yes
>What I regret most: realizing I have to finish this,
and maybe starting this in the first place...
>Favourite TV shows: TV?  is that like a computer screen?
>Parting words: Open up, it's Moses!
>
>

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

I was wearing black when everyone else was wearing
psychodelics.  You people are copying *me*.
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From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Senseless Death
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:56:38 GMT

spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) writes:

>He finishes walking to the chalkline. "To Curtis!" he shouts.  The glass
>hits the back of the fireplace with a sharp crash, and the shards scatter
>into the ashes.

"To Curtis.  And to John."  CRASH!!

-- 
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Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.
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