()() ____ (..) /|o | David "Super Dave" Pippenger (part-time super hero) /\/\ /o| o|"I'm not suffering from insanity, I'm quite enjoying it" c\db/o... /o_|_o_| My opinions are entirely mine cuz they scare everyone else. BUFA! -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | jeff covey jeff.covey@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~jeff.covey/ 410-669-4926 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | i love deadlines. i especially like the whooshing sound they make | | when they go flying by. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County -- ALL MINE!!!
Orioles-o-Meter :
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This is the city.
A million weary people lie in
bed or sit staring out the window
trying to make sense of it all. Sometimes one of them gets the
urge to pet a small, furry animal; that's where I go to work.
My name is friday - I carry a badger.
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Carl Christensen /~~\_/~\ ,,, Dept. of Computer Science
christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu | #=#==========# | Temple University
"Curiouser and curiouser!" - LC \__/~\_/ ``` Philadelphia, PA USA
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Go for the gusto.......or don't go at all.
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"Egad. The town of College Park is a cultural armpit
that begs for Right Guard."
-Richard Hsu,
8/12/93
******************************************** *"You are long and life is long, and there * *is time to kill today, and then one day * *you find, ten years have got behind you * *no one told you when to run, you've missed* *the starting gun." Pink Floyd, Time * * * *Phil Dennis a.k.a. pdennis@vnet.ibm.com * *Subbing to IBM for McDonnell Douglas * ******************************************** Richard "carm" Chimera, res. asst. | If freedom were like water, it would Human-Computer Interaction Lab, U Md.| not flow all around, it would go down A.V. Williams Building, room 3174 | the drain. Cyberspace will not College Park, MD 20742-3255 USA | liberate. -Dr. Kent Norman, U Md. -- equus quagga. quagga@trystero.com "But you can call me Cheryl.." \o/ "Ich habe festgestellt, das es N I C H T S gibt, was Deine (( Aufmerksamkeit schneller und vollstaendiger fesselt, als ein \\ sich nicht oeffender Fallschirm!" -moi. =)
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Doug Linder "Professional Angry Young Man and Tilter-at-Windmills."
faust@access.digex.net Proud to be an atheist.
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"They've shut down the main reactor" / ^ \ Vian Lawson.
"Oh no! That means we'll have to | \ / | Otherwise known as
react on our own ..." \_____/redfive@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
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Mike Van Pelt | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
mvp@netcom.com | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
| sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
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I have to go. "But if you don't know where you're going, any road will
take you there." -Lewis Carroll
---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Peter Johansson | "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a peter@cs.umbc.edu | meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and pjohan1@umbc2.bitnet | add drama to an otherwise dull day." - Calvin ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------
As a sport matures, it doesn't necessarily get better. Look at alpine skiing. In the 1936 Olympics they painted your skis to make sure you used the same pair in the slalom as in the downhill. Now you can't tell the winners without the aid of electronic timers accurate to the millisecond. The specialists are the ones who take the soul out of any sport.
It's a great thing to run a marathon. You train a bit, maybe change your diet, give up smoking, and you knock it off in 3.5 hours. If you want one in 2.5 hours, that's another story, you have to kiss off sex, your job, your friends, all the "non-essentials," and devote your entire life to the effort.
I say that the last 10% of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with, unless you want to talk about their particular specialities or their bodies.
Specialization, when indulged in by true geniuses like
Mozart, Babe Ruth, or Berndt Arnold, can create great art
that elevates mankind above the lowly beasts. But you and I
can evolve more quickly by putting that energy into more than
one direction.
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"There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk."
(Lazarus Long)
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Hale-Bopp inspired Bumper Sticker:
So Many Stupid People; So Few Comets
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"[Most] enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought."
(John F. Kennedy)
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Life holds not an hour that is better to live in: the past
is a tale that is told,
The future a sun-flecked shadow, alive and asleep, with
a blessing in store
As we give us again to the waters, the rapture of limbs
that the waters enfold
(swinburne)
--
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational
things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the
principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
- cartoonist Scott Adams, _The Dilbert Principle_ (1996), p. 76
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"There's the intelligent sort of love that makes an intelligent choice.
That's the kind you're supposed to get married on. Then there's the
kind that's anything but intelligent, that's like a possession. And
that's the one, that's the one everybody really values. That's the one
nobody wants to have missed out on."
- Alice Munro, in "Hard Luck Stories" from the collection, "The Moons
of Jupiter"
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"Her virtues were too numerous to describe and not sufficiently
interesting to deserve description."
- Anthony Trollope, in Barchester Towers
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>>RE: POLICY FOR RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING
>
>Honest question, addressed to the umbc.bogus crowd:
>Was this a response to some particular threat, or just creeping policy?
>
>DWF
Probably one too many emails to postmaster demanding copies of the
"acceptable use policy". Many of them didn't like our canned response
at the time... something along the lines of "there isn't one.. anything
goes, d00d!"
Paul {paulr@umbc.edu (Paul Riddle)}
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* Collector of Fine Things. Reader of Fine Print. Crosser of Fine Lines. *
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The Blue Twinkie * http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mvess1 * Redglasses
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"In numerous instances throughout the document there are possible
alternative methods to perform operations such that the exact same
result is obtained. In such instances the alternate method may be
substituted. However, if the exact same result is not obtained for all
possible inputs, then the substitution should not be made."
From a CCITT briefing on data compression, December, 1991
--
Only a couple of years to go before I can start my mid-life crisis.
I haven't decided... a harley or a porsche? Probably a harley. Porsches
might have air bags and I can't stand air bags. At least if you f**k up
on a harley you can argue with Newton on the way down.
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Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed
your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle
Tuesday. (falsely attributed to k.vonnegut)
--
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to
try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
- Indira Ghandi, the late Prime Minister of India
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Spam killer. Thanks KZtone. =)
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There are no such things as "too many guns" and "too much ammo".
John "Blessed be the pessimists, for they bring extra ammo" Jasen
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"Impossibility is a temporary problem, subject to rapid change."
John E. Jasen // DNRC Ambassador to Earth \\ jjasen1@umbc.edu
My views are those of the DNRC only. Prepare to be domesticated
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"The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of
reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have
got a little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have
been happening anyway" [d. adams]
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If you've already broken two laws before breakfast, why not wrap it up
with ID fraud and a cup of coffee? (R.Ord)
--
A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was
eating his morning meal. "I would like to give you this
personality test," said the outsider, "because I want you to be
happy." Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it
into the toaster: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."
--
"The philosopy exam was a piece of cake -which was a bit of a
surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a
sheet of paper."
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Some will die in hot pursuit in fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting thru the ashes
Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain
that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain
(Butthole Surfers)
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Color me mauve, I got a 93 on my French test. I hope it was out of
100.
-Terry
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Everything was fine until the composition. I'll have to
really work on my spontaneous-writing-in-big-nosed-garlic-
eating-snail-sucking-romantic-my-backside languages.
But I'm not bitter :^)
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This is an extremely hazardous test. Do not attempt this experiment without
proper safety equipment, including (but not limited to) adequate
ventilation, respirators, fire extinguishers, Sweet Tarts, and plenty of
those little tags on mattresses that say "Do Not Remove."
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~g
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"It is only necessary to make war with five things:
with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind,
with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city
and the discords of families."
-Pythagoras
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