Babysitter survived

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Post #75,489

by tuberculosis

1/19/03 7:32:55 AM

8/21/07 6:26:44 AM

Babysitter survived

Youngster was happy until we walked in the door - then she suddenly realized something was wrong with her world and promptly melted down.

We haven't brought out the devils finger puppet since. Still wondering if it can be used as a motivational tool.

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

--Alan Perlis

Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:26:44 AM EDT

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IWETHEY-- - (tuberculosis) - (48) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:16:19 AM EDT

Sorry to hear it. - (Silverlock) - Jan. 17, 2003, 03:49:38 PM EST

do you have a place to return to and where is it - (boxley) - (5) - Jan. 17, 2003, 04:03:20 PM EST

Good Question - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:17:17 AM EDT

got some nice marinas around here, dice 813,727 area codes -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 17, 2003, 05:20:53 PM EST

Great idea - (deSitter) - Jan. 17, 2003, 11:34:45 PM EST

We'll take ya. Gues the eariler job here was moot? -NT - (tseliot) - (1) - Jan. 18, 2003, 02:27:22 AM EST

Chief Scientists was recently converted JHead - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:22:32 AM EDT

Le bummer - (deSitter) - Jan. 17, 2003, 04:08:57 PM EST

Sorry about that, Todd. Good luck on the next step! -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 17, 2003, 05:04:12 PM EST

Sorry to hear about it - (orion) - Jan. 17, 2003, 07:37:29 PM EST

Bummer. -NT - (imric) - Jan. 17, 2003, 07:45:24 PM EST

Good luck, man. - (inthane-chan) - (18) - Jan. 17, 2003, 07:58:49 PM EST

Cold? What are you smoking? - (ben_tilly) - (17) - Jan. 17, 2003, 09:54:03 PM EST

That explains all the coffee -NT - (deSitter) - Jan. 17, 2003, 10:18:06 PM EST

5F here. - (admin) - (3) - Jan. 17, 2003, 10:24:52 PM EST

You win so far in the midwest - (Silverlock) - Jan. 17, 2003, 10:40:21 PM EST

Remind me not to visit you... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Jan. 17, 2003, 10:59:59 PM EST

Listen to them whine! - (deSitter) - Jan. 17, 2003, 11:37:01 PM EST

Naw. - (inthane-chan) - (11) - Jan. 18, 2003, 01:27:20 AM EST

I remember when I used to think... - (ben_tilly) - (10) - Jan. 18, 2003, 08:35:48 AM EST

Don't think I ever felt colder than in Georgia, - (Another Scott) - Jan. 18, 2003, 10:45:19 AM EST

I've been to D.C. in 0 degree weather... - (inthane-chan) - (8) - Jan. 20, 2003, 11:07:14 AM EST

When was this? - (ben_tilly) - (7) - Jan. 20, 2003, 12:22:19 PM EST

About 2 years ago. - (inthane-chan) - (3) - Jan. 20, 2003, 12:32:26 PM EST

Please find the day in question - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Jan. 20, 2003, 12:57:24 PM EST

Huh. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Jan. 20, 2003, 01:45:01 PM EST

I think your possibility is right - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 20, 2003, 03:10:57 PM EST

He is misremembering. :-) - (admin) - (2) - Jan. 20, 2003, 02:19:54 PM EST

Those aren't all-time December records though. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Jan. 20, 2003, 02:32:25 PM EST

Yep, my bad. -NT - (admin) - Jan. 20, 2003, 02:56:17 PM EST

Good luck - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 17, 2003, 09:55:38 PM EST

That's got to suck. Good luck with the next job. - (Meerkat) - (2) - Jan. 17, 2003, 10:46:26 PM EST

I was under the impression that the gates to Oz are closed. - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:22:26 AM EDT

Seems hostile is the order of the day here. - (Meerkat) - Jan. 19, 2003, 06:59:46 PM EST

sorry to hear it -NT - (cforde) - Jan. 18, 2003, 12:58:34 AM EST

Luck! Enjoy any time off you get. -NT - (Another Scott) - Jan. 18, 2003, 10:47:44 AM EST

Dude...that sucks! - (bepatient) - (5) - Jan. 18, 2003, 04:54:30 PM EST

Yep, working on plan B - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:25:20 AM EDT

Arteries slowly returning to normal... - (bepatient) - (1) - Jan. 18, 2003, 06:55:21 PM EST

Babysitter survived - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:26:44 AM EDT

Now all we need to do... - (folkert) - (1) - Jan. 18, 2003, 06:36:10 PM EST

The answer has always been - (bepatient) - Jan. 18, 2003, 06:52:40 PM EST

Aww shit - (Yendor) - Jan. 19, 2003, 10:39:29 PM EST

Bummer - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 20, 2003, 12:30:53 AM EST

very sorry to hear :-( -NT - (slugbug) - Jan. 20, 2003, 08:54:28 AM EST

Sorry to hear this... - (Arkadiy) - Jan. 20, 2003, 11:13:11 AM EST

Think in reverse - (tablizer) - Jan. 21, 2003, 01:32:27 AM EST

Not pleasant. - (static) - Jan. 22, 2003, 02:09:44 AM EST

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