mclure@sri-unix (08/15/82)
#R:alice:-80600:sri-unix:1300002:000:204 sri-unix!mclure Aug 15 00:51:00 1982 There is a scene in Kubrick's 2001 in which the camera lingers on a large computer panel in one of the earth-to-moon spaceships. Emblazoned on the panel is the IBM logo. That's a pretty big coincidence.
nrh (01/18/83)
#R:atd:-14900:inmet:6400001:000:216 inmet!nrh Jan 16 16:33:00 1983 Dave, I think you're being frivolous. How about: "Does North Dakota have a soul? If so, do non-resident voters share that soul holographically?" I sure hope nobody proposes a "net.meaningless" newsgroup.....
johnl (02/14/83)
#R:yale-com:-86700:ima:17500001:000:596 ima!johnl Feb 14 00:12:00 1983 Indeed, every president elected in a year ending in 0 has died in office since 1840: 1840 W. H. Harrison 1860* Lincoln 1880* Garfield 1900* McKinley 1920 Harding 1940 F. D. Roosevelt 1960* Kennedy Note that the starred presidents were assasinated, the others died of natural causes. Near misses don't count, T. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and Ford all survived serious attempts. John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl PS: If they taught history decently in elementary schools, all of you (except perhaps the Canadians) would know all this.
turner (03/01/83)
#R:zinfandel:8200023:ucbesvax:1100009:37777777600:787
ucbesvax!turner Feb 26 01:29:00 1983
Point by point:
1. I agree. Viking was a blatant and arrogant attempt at bacteriacide.
We all deserve to turn green and croak off when the first craft
to make the return voyage from Mars lands and releases their
microbial revenge squads. It's just another compelling example
of U.S. Intervention In Places It Shouldn't Go.
2. Hey, I'll vote for Ken Cory again! Sorry, but anyone who signs a
check for ME has my vote. And I hope the Martian bacteria are busy
genetically engineering themselves to particularly afflict the
owners of rental property. Big hairy warts, herpes triplex VIII,
nothing's too grody for them.
See you in net.space, net.politics, and not least, net.jokes. (And
net.flat.earth, if I can ever get it rolling...)
Michael Turnerturner (03/01/83)
#R:allegra:-96300:ucbesvax:1100008:37777777600:740
ucbesvax!turner Feb 26 01:06:00 1983
I'm working on that. Thanks for pointing it out. I've been
having problems with getting other mail, but this is the first
indication that anyone has been trying to reach me personally in
reponse to a note (or notes). I've also had problems mailing TO
people from notes, which may or may not be a related problem. Being
about the only notes user on this boonies machine doesn't make it any
easier, let me tell you.
Keep the flame, I'll get back to you. (Unless it's really
important, like praise for my gracious, eloquent, and dispassionate
mini-essays, which you are all so grateful to receive. In that
case, my phone number is [415]-845-6652.)
No death threats, please.
Michael Turnerruss (03/31/83)
#R:turtleva:-15500:hp-cvd:7600008:37777777600:142 hp-cvd!russ Mar 24 07:12:00 1983 I usually use "stupid" or "dumb" or "dumbness" or "dumbfile". When I'm in a hurry, I use "a", "b", "c", etc. Russ Nelson...hp-pcd!hp-cvd!russ
nrh (04/12/83)
#R:mhuxt:-6600:inmet:6400008:177600:377 inmet!nrh Apr 10 19:36:00 1983 Arrrgh! The DDT ban was public information. What right do we have to forbid the sale of DDT in other countries? Suppose the disagree that the problem is bad enough to warrant a ban? NOBODY was forced to buy DDT -- No other country was forced not to enact a similar ban. World Peace will NOT come from the US deciding what is good for everybody else (unless they agree).
ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (06/21/83)
#R:brunix:-310100:ucbesvax:6000001:37777777600:311 ucbesvax!turner May 31 15:08:00 1983 Maybe I'm just a bit on the totally susceptible side--but I often GET hiccups from eating a teaspoon of creamy peanut butter. The usual "9 swallows of water" cures mine. The water does most of it, and the "9" adds a little psychosomatic kick that seems to make some difference. Boo! Michael Turner
Anonymous@hp-dcd.UUCP (06/29/83)
#R:ihuxf:0:hp-dcd:17300001:37777777600:1 hp-dcd!Anonymous Jun 26 20:45:00 1983
bhayes@sri-unix.UUCP (07/08/83)
#R:ogcvax:-29100:sri-unix:1300020:000:291 sri-unix!bhayes Apr 24 15:09:00 1983 I recall a Candid Camera episode where they did a supermarket taste-test for a new cereal, being, I think, oatmeal with lots of salt. They got many people to say that they really liked the product, and the man with the microphone could get people to eat this goo with no troubles. -barry
bloom@inmet.UUCP (07/12/83)
#R:uvacs:-78800:inmet:6400019:177600:255
inmet!bloom Jul 11 20:51:00 1983
Yes, and I believe eating gobs of rice (hot or cold, white or fried) will
do it too ... well ... it does it to me.
But Nitrogen/Oxy mixtures?? I can just picture the next Jacques Cousteau
docu-hic-mentary.
Ray Bloom
{harpo, ima}!inmet!bloomberry@zinfandel.UUCP (07/19/83)
#R:teklabs:-213800:zinfandel:8200051:000:274 zinfandel!berry Jul 18 09:04:00 1983 I read in a pop grammar book that some famous copy-editor (famous if you are a newspaper reporter) said that he could improve ANY english sentence with judicious editting -- EXCEPT "Jesus wept." Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900
billw@sri-unix.UUCP (07/20/83)
#R:ogcvax:-29100:sri-unix:1300021:000:119 sri-unix!billw Apr 25 08:51:00 1983 David Horowitz has shown a demo of the same phenomena on the tonight show (and others) using carbonated lemon juice...
bloom@inmet.UUCP (09/15/83)
#R:houxz:-43700:inmet:6400058:177600:157
inmet!bloom Sep 14 21:04:00 1983
Re: Berlin, NH
.... as the story goes, they changed the pronUnciation during
WWII .... for the obvious reason.
Ray Bloom
{harpo,ima,esquire}!imnet!bloomtim@hpfclk.UUCP (12/09/83)
#R:sbcs:-53800:hpfclk:7400002:37777777600:167 hpfclk!tim Dec 7 14:46:00 1983 I seem to remember hearing that the cloven hooves aspect of kosher food has to do with the animal being descended or related to satan in some sense. Tim Mikkelsen
bloom@inmet.UUCP (12/10/83)
#R:ihu1f:-21300:inmet:6400075:177600:884
inmet!bloom Nov 30 13:18:00 1983
***** inmet:net.misc / ihu1f!nesacadm / 9:35 am Nov 11, 1983
............
I wonder what that's going to do to the tv producers when they make
up phony numbers for their programs.
Bill Adams --> AT&T Communications
ihnp4!ihu1f!nesacadm
(312) 979-6267
----------
They're just going to have settle for that old standby, 555-2368,
which is (or used to be) used by the telephone companies in advertisements,
directories, etc. in pictures of sample telephones, or how to put that
sticker under the clear plastic plate on your Trim-line (r), and so on.
Although, I just discovered in my local directory that New England
Telephone (NYNEX Corp.) uses 216-555-7829 in one picture/example.
(Of course, Trim-line(r) is a registered trademark of AT&T Co.)
Ray Bloom
Intermetrics, Inc.
{harpo, ima, esquire}!inmet!bloomdavy@ecn-ee.UUCP (12/15/83)
#R:pur-phy:-111700:ecn-ee:16300001:000:314 ecn-ee!davy Dec 14 23:50:00 1983 The reason places like McDonald's are switching to Diet Coke, at least according to a friend who works for Burger King, is that Coke is offering big savings on D-C in order to promote it. Thus, the reastaurants buy it for less, sell it to us for the same price, and rake in the bucks. --Dave Curry pur-ee!davy
andrew@inmet.UUCP (01/13/84)
#R:utcsrgv:-306200:inmet:6400084:177600:233 inmet!andrew Jan 12 13:30:00 1984 I read some time ago that counterfeit Canadian $25 bills were circulated around the U.S. That's right, $25; they were apparantly palmed off in areas far enough from Canada that most people didn't know there is no such denomination.
padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell [Admin]) (01/15/84)
<blankety blank>
There is no such thing as a counterfeit $25 Canadian bill.
Since there is no such thing, the person getting caught passing it
would have fun in court. In the past, this has happened here in
Canada, and the charge in court was really peculiar, something about
fraud, misrepresentation, etc. As I recall, the people were NEVER
convicted, much to the frustration of the local Crown prosecutor...
Patrick ("Anybody want some German Marks?") Powellmmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (01/17/84)
==================
There is no such thing as a counterfeit $25 Canadian bill.
Since there is no such thing ... [as a real Canadian $25?? (MMT)]
==================
Amusingly, there is (or rather was) a legal $25 Canadian Bill. I say
amusingly because I read the first reference to the counterfeit
Canadian $25 a few hours after a numismatist (if that's what you call that
kind of bill collector) showed me a picture of one. They were issued
by a private bank whose name I forget about 50 years ago or so. But
they were legal, and for all I know they may still be legal. So one
could have a counterfeit Canadian $25.
--
Martin Taylor
{allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmtoscar@utcsrgv.UUCP (Oscar M. Nierstrasz) (01/22/84)
If all those wombats weren't waging so much pyschic warfare, perhaps we wouldn't have so many orphaned responses. Oscar Nierstrasz (dang, that's hard to spell!)
lmaher@uokvax.UUCP (01/23/84)
#R:mit-eddi:-118000:uokvax:3800010:000:712 uokvax!lmaher Jan 21 16:45:00 1984 (posting from a friend's account while uok is down) I seriously object to hp-pcd!john's suggestion that a bank would slip a counterfeit bill into a night deposit to pass the loss off to a customer. Having worked in the banking business, I can inform you that the bank is much more interested in locating the source of the counterfeiting than avoiding a miniscule monetary loss. If they can't discover who they got the bill from they certainly wouldn't set the investigators off on the wrong track! The loss for the bill would just be written off, as it is when tellers miscount. A single $100 dollar bill hardly makes much difference to the bank's profit. Carl ..!uokvax!uok!crigney ..!duke!uok!crigney
andrew@inmet.UUCP (01/24/84)
#R:dartvax:-61900:inmet:6400085:177600:30 inmet!andrew Jan 22 19:03:00 1984 Club sandwiches, not wombats!
mazur@inmet.UUCP (01/26/84)
#R:seismo:-51800:inmet:6400087:000:58 inmet!mazur Jan 24 10:21:00 1984 Wombats are better than sheep, because sheep can't cook?
nrh@inmet.UUCP (02/08/84)
#R:randvax:-164900:inmet:6400089:177600:219 inmet!nrh Feb 5 14:51:00 1984 On this matter of psychic warfare: I understand that Scientific American offers a prize of (I think) $10,000 for demonstration of ANY psychic powers in their labs (under close observation, natch!). Put up or shut up.
paul@uiucuxc.UUCP (02/08/84)
#R:sunybcs:-89600:uiucuxc:3900044:000:1621
uiucuxc!paul Feb 7 19:03:00 1984
Waterbeds are good for sleeping. They're also energy savers. I kept
my apartment at 52F at night and stayed warm.
I had the simplest kind of waterbed, no baffles or foam (you can never
completely empty beds that have stabilizing material inside and water
is HEAVY). Wave motion is a problem only when you move. It damps
out quickly enough. Getting out of bed requires a practiced roll
and swing of the legs to put your center of mass on the railing.
Overall they're great for sleeping. However beds see many other uses. . .
When the love of my life moved in we quickly found the waterbed
unsuited for lovemaking. It imposes its own rhythm. It lacks a firm
surface. It's impossible to give a good massage on a waterbed.
What we've found to be the most comfortable overall is a futon.
A futon consists of multiple layers of cotton cloth, stiched together
to prevent shifting, covered with a cotton envelope. They come
in standard sizes so you can use your present sheets. They are
not treated for fire resistance -- I wouldn't recommend one for
someone with a penchant for smoking in bed.
Futons are firm, light, and adaptable. Elegant wood frames are
reasonably priced and usually disassemble easily for moving.
I bought a queen size futon, composite particle board and oak
frame (not a veneer), new cotton sheets and pillows for $450
in Portland, OR. (One of two states w.o. a sales tax. Name the
other.)
Paul Pomes
uucp: {decvax,ihnp4,pur-ee,ucbvax}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!paul
US Mail: Paul Pomes, University of Illinois
1304 W Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-333-6262steve@zinfandel.UUCP (03/10/84)
#R:vortex:-25800:zinfandel:8200073:177600:338
zinfandel!steve Mar 9 16:38:00 1984
"All things are known to the mind of God.
Therefore, there is no such thing as coincidence
or randomness."
ihuxs!danjo
I asked your God and he told me that there were such things
as coincidence and randomness. I believe him over you, danjo,
unless he told you otherwise, in which case he was just being
contrary again.ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (06/10/84)
> If a nonsmoker informs me *politely* that my smoke is bothering him, > then I will either move out of his area or put my cigarette out. > If some jerk *tells* me to put my cigarette out because it makes him > want to puke, then I'll put it out all right, right in his eye. > If people get nasty with me, I get nasty right back. If you smoke in my vicinity, you have already been nasty. You have fired the opening round. "If people get nasty with me, I get nasty right back." So there, think about that one... But I'll be polite. "Sir, your smoking makes me want to puke. Please don't do it in my vicinity." Who am I? Practically anyone. That's the point.
ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (08/14/84)
>> Undoubtedly everyone has seen the chairs without a backrest, but with a >> knee pad and a buttocks pad, widely touted as being good for the >> posture. I'd like to get a feel for how suitable it would be for >> programming. We have one in our little machine room. Some people like it, some people don't, and some find novel ways to use it. I find that, no matter what height it's set for, my shins start to hurt in ten or fifteen minutes. The rest of me feels fine, though. It's certainly no worse than a standard (padded) desk chair for typing. Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado {ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"
woof@hpfcla.UUCP (woof) (11/12/84)
I had a book for a while called "Dear Sir, Drop Dead: A Study of Hate Mail Through the Ages" which had some pretty good flames in it. One was from Voltaire, who had received a nasty letter. It went something like: Dear Sir: I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your letter before me. Soon it shall be behind me. Voltaire It also contained gems like a letter from Ben Franklin to the gas company complaining that the gate to his house was in the dark halfway between two street lights, and a bunch of hate mail to Ms. O'Hair (sp? the outspoken athiest). I'm don't remember who the editor of the collection was... Steve Wolf [hplabs,ihnp4]!hpfcla!woof
ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs) (12/10/84)
> Pepper ands zip and it stimulates the tastes buds. If more people had > pepper mills, instead of shakers, I think more people would use it. Watch out, though, for black pepper is reputed to be a known carcinogen.
al@hpfclq.UUCP (al) (12/16/84)
The stuff I hear is that Tempest is a set of standards for impeding the generation and reception of electromagnetic radiation. The rumour also has it that DoD is *real touchy* about all that stuff. al "I'm not paranoid. It's all the people following me." stone ...!hplabs!hpfcla!al
mcb@hpfclo.UUCP (mcb) (01/12/85)
Re: 'C' as a programming language... The most accurate description of the 'C' language that I have heard to date is: 'C' - The language that combines the power of assembly language with the flexibility of assembly language. I'll stick with Pascal, for what it's Wirth... Mike Berry, HP FSD, hpfcla!mcb "Remember: Rust never sleeps."
tim@hpfclp.UUCP (tim) (01/12/85)
Personally, I think it would be great to be able to determine all the serial numbers (since we have a physical inventory of equipment once a year - at least we have enough equipment). It would be useful from a service point of view - it would be possible for a service rep to check to see what upgrades are necessary on a particular piece of equipment without having to tear it apart or check the S/N. Tim (HP-IB used to be my life) Mikkelsen hplabs!hpfcla!tim
crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) (01/16/85)
I haven't seen the question about TEMPEST qualification yet, just a partial reply... hope this will help whomever. TEMPEST qualification is a program where hardware is certaified to emit a very low level of EM radiation. The reason for this is to ensure that highly-classified material is not ``readable'' at a distance. It usually makes the hardware sort of hard to use -- shielding over a CRT is apparently a real problem -- but it works. Sometimes they just shield the room instead. Also, DoD isn't all THAT sensitive about TEMPEST -- it's only classified a little bit, and that only in the specs. -- Opinions stated here are my own and are unrelated. Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (01/18/85)
>> From: mcb@hpfclo.UUCP (mcb) >> Subject: Re: Orphaned Response >> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 12:11:00 PST >> >> The most accurate description of the 'C' language that I have >> heard to date is: >> >> 'C' - The language that combines the power of assembly language >> with the flexibility of assembly language. >> >> I'll stick with Pascal, for what it's Wirth... >> >> Mike Berry, HP FSD, hpfcla!mcb The trouble with PASCAL is that it's not wirth a plugged nicklaus. ``What, you think I'm kidding?'' Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California
wfi@unc.UUCP (04/26/85)
> ... [brief list of interesting and unusual technologies] ...
You mean like "...spontaneous generation of acari insects..."
which was (to the best of my recollection) one of the catalog topics
mentioned? Indeed. Maybe they can give us a few pointers on turning
bat's blood to gold too ... :-)
By the way, the last I checked acarids were NOT insects...
-- Bill Ingoglybrooke@nmtvax.UUCP (04/27/85)
> YAHS (Yet Another Hamburger Story) > > When I was a student at New Mexico Tech the Big Boy from Albuquerque > (about 70 miles away) was "captured" one year and lived in one of the > dorms for a week or so until he was returned to the locker room at > U of New Mexico. > > The same year (about 79 I think) the cow from one of the Albuquerque > steak-houses was almost captured. However, the kidnappers were > caught by a cop when they pulled off I-25 to change a flat (or so > the story goes). Apparently he was a bit suspicious of a pick-up > truck pulling a fake cow out of town on a trailer... > > [I wasn't involved in either of these, so the stories are second/third/ > fourth hand...any other Tech alumni out there who can elaborate?] > > --Jeremy Epstein > Perkin-Elmer > {decvax,ucbvax}!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!jje I'll be a Tech alumnus in 28 days. Not a cow -- a steer. I really don't know about the cop detecting the steer (a rather large, fiberglass steer was on a trailer at an Albuquerque steakhouse), but in the trip to Socorro, a Good Morning America camera crew spotted them and used as human interest. This was St. Pat's '80. I was only a senior in high school at the time, but I'm pretty sure. More recently, Jeremy (author of the beloved and ever popular ZAYEF-20), the Ronald McDonald was taken from the local McDonalds (yes, we joined the civilized world in 1981 -- or at least the outskirts of it) and hung from a noose on Weir(d) Hall. The more things change, the more they remain the same. -- J. Brooke King in Socorro Funland ... ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!brooke Any thoughts or non-thoughts expressed here are not necessarily those of NMIMT.
liang@cvl.UUCP (04/30/85)
> > >Even worse, however, is the afternoon drive-type DJ: Howard Stern. His main > > >goal is to pick offensive fun at anything and anybody. He is best known > > Hold on. Don't get down on Howard. I've seen him on the "David Letterman > > Show" and found him to be quite a fun guy (though many people seem to > Before NY, Howard Stern was here in D.C. on the morning show. Upon > first listening to his show, I was appalled at some of his antics, but > after a time, I realized that all's fair on the airwaves - with some > limitations. I grew to enjoy listening to Howard once I realized he was > trying to stir things up - which he did well. > The interesting thing is, Howard left DC101 here, because he > broke one of the few rules imposed on him by the station, he talked > *REAL* bad about the DJs on another local station. > -- > Paul H. Mauritz - Digital Equipment Corporation > > UUCP: decvax!{decuac,grendel}!paul > ARPA: {decuac,grendel}!paul@seismo.ARPA > AT&T: (301) 474-4091 > USPS: 8301 Professional Place, Landover MD USA EARTH 20785, MS-DCO/913 > > "Why is it that there are so many more horses' asses than there are > horses? - G. Gordon Liddy You never mentioned who replaced him on WWDC (DC101).... The Greaseman, aka Doug Tracht, a character in his own right. -eli -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eli Liang --- University of Maryland Computer Vision Lab, (301) 454-4526 ARPA: liang@cvl, liang@lemuria, eli@mit-mc, eli@mit-prep CSNET: liang@cvl UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!cvl!liang
larry@prism.UUCP (05/22/85)
/**** prism:net.misc / vortex!lauren / 1:46 am May 13, 1985 ****/ Just so that you heard it here first (I hope) here's my prediction regarding the new Coke. Over a period of time, Coke will find that their average consumption drops with the new formula. After they've slipped about 3-5%, they will start marketing the "old" formula alongside the new one. The accompanying slogan will be something like: "Now you have a choice!" --Lauren-- /* ---------- */ Sure. And their new spokesman will be Andy Kaufman.
ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs) (07/20/85)
Re: places with moderate temperature
Silverstein's theory of urban development: People like to live in the
places that are nicest, so that is where big cities develop, but most
people don't like big cities, so after a while the best places aren't
the best any more, so people start to populate the previous second best
places, and so on.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, etc. were probably very
nice places to live before they turned into concrete jungles.
Fort Collins (pop. 75000) is now one of the nicest places to live, if
you don't mind cold winters and treeless geography, but f you like a
small, modern, fast-growing town, which means after a while it won't be
so nice any more, probably.
Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
{ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"woof@hpfcla.UUCP (woof) (07/24/85)
> I believe that Toyota did not stop making the Corona, but merely changed > its name to Camry. Corona disappeared years before the Camry came out (c. 1975 to 1984). The Camry is a luxury car starting at about $16k. My theory is that the Corona and Corolla lines were combined. Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company {ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Colorado
bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty) (07/30/85)
> >Corona disappeared years before the Camry came out (c. 1975 to 1984). The > >Camry is a luxury car starting at about $16k. > > >Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company > >{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Colorado > > That's funny. I just got a new Camry loaded with options for under > $11000 including taxes. I think perhaps you might be refering to > the Cressida which I priced around $17,000. > > Lisa Geiger ATT&IS > ihnp4!druak!antics Denver, Colorado Not to mention the fact that the Corona existed until '82 and the Camry appeared in '83. Not exactly "years" between the two model runs. -- Brian C. Carty AT&T Bell Laboratories - Piscataway, NJ ..!{ihnp4|allegra}!whuts!bccarty
antics@druak.UUCP (GeigerL) (07/30/85)
>Corona disappeared years before the Camry came out (c. 1975 to 1984). The >Camry is a luxury car starting at about $16k. >Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company >{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Colorado That's funny. I just got a new Camry loaded with options for under $11000 including taxes. I think perhaps you might be refering to the Cressida which I priced around $17,000. Lisa Geiger ATT&IS ihnp4!druak!antics Denver, Colorado
wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) (07/31/85)
In article <18800001@hpfclm.UUCP> woof@hpfcla.UUCP (woof) writes: > ... The Camry is a luxury car starting at about $16k. ... Nay, nay. I purchased a brand-new Camry about six weeks ago; it was loaded (AM/FM and cassette, air conditioning, luggage rack, aluminum wheels, cruise control, etc.). The price was around $12K. I think the base price on the Camry is around $9K, but try to find one on the lot that the dealer hasn't loaded up with a lot of options to up his profit margin. A *great* car, though; probably the nicest thing I've ever driven (since my last car was a '73 Chevy Nova, that may not be saying much :-). -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly
woof@hpfcla.UUCP (woof) (08/12/85)
Warning:
Cherry Coke tastes awful after a burger with lots of onions. I think it
has more to do with the onions than with the burger.
Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company
{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Coloradowoof@hpfcla.UUCP (woof) (08/12/85)
> Their gums will be removed (in an > unspeakably crude fashion... You think that's bad... I once witnessed the cruel act of hacking the hips off of roses to make "natural" vitamin C pills! It's enough to make you vomit. Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company {ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Colorado
jlp@faust.UUCP (08/15/85)
{}
Soror, sororis, f. - sister
AKA == Alpha Kappa Alpha, a prominent sorority throughout the country. It
is at least fifty years old. Its members have gone on to positions of
success in government, business, and entertainment. The current generation
of AKA's will produce many successful engineers and scientists as well.
AKA's are renowned for their commitment to sisterhood, community,
scholarship, and advancement. They are usually well-mannered,
goal-oriented, attractive, personable, and great people to be around.
Theresa, if you ever come to Boston, your sisterhood here will take good
care of you ( Did you go to the '82 Boulet?). Drop by St. Paul A.M.E. in
Cambridge when you get here.
Jerryl Payne
...!ihnp4!inmet!faust!jlpamc543@uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU (09/29/85)
I am the author of "Bradford," the near letter quality program for Epson and Gemini printers. I found it very hard to sell copies in large quantity, because I can't afford $5000 advertisements. So I recently uploaded copies of this software, in its IBM PC version, to some bulletin boards with a note explaining that although I still own the copyright, I give permission for ANYONE to copy the program. Furthermore, I offered to provide the user manual for $15. So far I have received orders for five manuals in the last ten days, so things look good. If you have an IBM PC and an Epson or Gemini printer and want to print in near letter quality in a variety of fonts, sizes, and other features, you can get BRADFORD.ARC from Gene Plantz's BBS at 312-882-4227 as well as many others.
amc543@uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU (09/29/85)
My apologies; I forgot to leave my name and address in the previous message about "Bradford," the near letter quality program. Aaron Contorer amc543@uiucuxa
gm@trsvax (12/11/85)
> How this is done is quite obvious. You see the scene from very high up and > must look down. Underneath you is a setup of all the 'ghosts' in a black room > moving about. What you see is merely their reflection upon a semi-mirrored > surface in front of the entire 'live' room you see that is really in front of > you. The same thing is done in several of the rides at Disney World. For example, during the very last part of "Pirates of the Carribean", you pass through a town which has been plundered. The flames are leaping into the air and around the windows of several of the buildings. Some of the flames are real, but they are well separated from anything flammable. The "flames" in the buildings are really film (or videotape) of flames projected upon a semi-mirrored surface in front of the interior of the buildings. So it appears that the windows are on fire, but you can still see the furniture inside. Something along the same lines is done during the tour of the computer system at Epcot Center. The cartoon character "Bit" is projected from behind you upon the glass which separates you from the computers. So it appears that "Bit" is really walking around and upon the computers inside. Does anyone know what they use to generate the swampy smell during the tour of the "Universe of Energy"? ------------ George Moore (gm@trsvax.UUCP)
royt@gatech.CSNET (Roy M Turner) (12/15/85)
In article <53600015@trsvax>, gm@trsvax writes: > > The same thing is done in several of the rides at Disney World. For > example, during the very last part of "Pirates of the Carribean", you pass > through a town which has been plundered. The flames are leaping into the > air and around the windows of several of the buildings. Some of the flames > are real, but they are well separated from anything flammable. The "flames" > in the buildings are really film (or videotape) of flames projected upon a > semi-mirrored surface in front of the interior of the buildings. So it > appears that the windows are on fire, but you can still see the furniture > inside. > Well, take a closer look at the flames next time--sure looked to me as if they were just orange lights projected onto a cellophane "screen" that was being blown or shaken about. Nothing as fancy as real flames projected on a mirror, I'm afraid. I have a question for you folks, though--in the haunted house, how do they manage the talking head in the crystal ball, if not via holograms? You can see it from any angle (ie, you see the side of her head as you come upon the set, then the front, and it's all continuous). Same with the figurine of a woman above the exit. Any ideas? Roy
matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (12/16/85)
In article <2267@gatech.CSNET> royt@gatech.CSNET (Roy M Turner) writes: >I have a question for you folks, though--in the haunted house, how do they >manage the talking head in the crystal ball, if not via holograms? You can >see it from any angle (ie, you see the side of her head as you come upon >the set, then the front, and it's all continuous). From a long-ago Walt Disney TV show (back when you could see it for free) I remember that this is done by projecting a moving face image onto a fixed, blank head. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt
george@sysvis.UUCP (08/20/86)
> For good or for bad there have not been any great generals in the last > hundred years or so (there were some brilliant ones like Rommel, but not > of the kind of the truly great ones). "Great" needs some definition in scope of campaign and performance therein. Taking this into account, George S. Patton was, without a doubt, a GREAT one. Rommel lacked the "eye of quality" even though he was normally precise. Oh, and did you forget Sun Tzu? He wrote the book.
victor@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Victor Balaban) (08/24/86)
In article <-534096606@sysvis> george@sysvis.UUCP writes: > >> For good or for bad there have not been any great generals in the last >> hundred years or so (there were some brilliant ones like Rommel, but not >> of the kind of the truly great ones). > >"Great" needs some definition in scope of campaign and performance therein. >Taking this into account, George S. Patton was, without a doubt, a GREAT one. >Rommel lacked the "eye of quality" even though he was normally precise. Oh, >and did you forget Sun Tzu? He wrote the book. What about MacArthur? I understand that he was supposed to be one of the greatest ever, even if he did consider himself to be a higher authority than the president. -- Victor Balaban Beer. It's not just for breakfast anymore
tower@mit-prep.ARPA (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (09/04/86)
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