weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) (03/27/86)
I have heard a rumor that Andy Scott Beals is a silicon-based life form. Can anyone confirm this? ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) (03/29/86)
In article <12715@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) writes: >I have heard a rumor that Andy Scott Beals is a silicon-based >life form. Can anyone confirm this? I can confirm this. Here at Lunatic Laboratories Unlimited we have been conducting extensive studies of this entity, and we have concluded that there is no actual protoplasmic Andy Scott Beals. We've figured out that he's an artificial system administrator program that worships the idea of "useful information" as signal and "humor" as noise. Anything with an indecent signal to noise ratio (according to him) shouldn't exist in the first place- inefficient. Now remember, Andy, this is just a rumour.. But we can't help it if it's confirmed easily.... Carl Greenberg Hell with it. I OWN Lunatic Laboratories Unlimited, and my opinions ARE those of the whole damn company!
jablow@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Robert Jablow) (03/29/86)
In article <12715@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms (Matthew P. Wiener) writes: >I have heard a rumor that Andy Scott Beals is a silicon-based >life form. Can anyone confirm this? Yes, Andy is a silicon-based life-form. I know him personally, and he keeps tracking sand behind him. Respectfully, Eric Robert Jablow MSRI ucbvax!brahms!jablow
shark@unirot.UUCP (chris rhodes) (03/29/86)
* You won't see this. * >I have heard a rumor that Andy Scott Beals is a silicon-based >life form. Can anyone confirm this? > >ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720 No, but I've heard an equally nastry rumor that Andy (he'll always be lll-crg!bandy to me) reads every piece of mail that goes through lll-{crg,lcc}. An associate of mine, upon suspecting this, tagged "And Andy...I know you're reading this..." to the end of one of his (private) letters. Within 10 minutes (lll-crg was connected to his system at the time) came a letter from lll-crg!bandy : no body, but only the subject "what makes you think I read your mail." Scary, isn't it? Chris Rhodes / Shooting Shark / Tiburon Systems {ihnp4,seismo,ll-xn,qantel,sun}!***lll-crg***!csuh!shark "My opinions are the same as yours, since I have no personality."