Post #85,661
3/4/03 11:42:56 PM
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Back in the USSA
Actually I got back Thursday - but my luggage didn't all arrive until today (British Airways you SUCK). Not quite over jetlag but getting there. Also forced to do with dialup access now (ICK).
So whats a good Wynkoop day?
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
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Post #85,662
3/4/03 11:45:17 PM
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Wilkommen Bienvenue!
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
\ufffdOmni Gaul Delenda est!\ufffd Ceasar
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Post #85,670
3/5/03 12:33:34 AM
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Wynkoop, the pub?
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #85,675
3/5/03 12:38:05 AM
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Natch
Wynkoop on Wynkoop
(pronounced win - koop on wine - koop)
Makers of Railyard Ale
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
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Post #85,722
3/5/03 9:59:33 AM
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Re: Natch
A good Riever's day was - 10 inches of snow and a slowly emptying bottle of B&B, and lots of fresh coffee. :)
Ah...
(Riever's is at Mississippi and Gaylord. Nice pub.)
-drl
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Post #85,671
3/5/03 12:34:44 AM
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ObLRPD: Learn to swim.
...followed by: I see... dead people. \r\n\r\n Welcome back, Todd. \r\n --\r\n
Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n
[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n
[link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n
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Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
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Post #85,673
3/5/03 12:37:05 AM
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Welcome to the snow and cold :)
This coming Friday good? I believe Tom said fridays are good for him. I'm off work that day actually...will probably just take the light rail downtown
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Steve
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Post #85,677
3/5/03 12:39:35 AM
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Good for me
Yeah, it was just getting like spring in Paris when I left... :-/
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
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Post #85,753
3/5/03 11:59:03 AM
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Welcome back, Todd!
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
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