From da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!ftpbox!mothost!mdisea!lego.wes.mot.com!thanatos3.altair.wes.mot.com!husen Mon May 22 11:16:19 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!ftpbox!mothost!mdisea!lego.wes.mot.com!thanatos3.altair.wes.mot.com!husen From: husen@thanatos3.altair.wes.mot.com (Eric P. Husen) Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Message-ID: Sender: root@wes.mot.com (Operator) Nntp-Posting-Host: thanatos3 Reply-To: husen@wes.mot.com Organization: Motorola Wireless Enterprise Systems References: <3pjo6p$eve@sashimi.wwa.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 18:33:00 GMT Lines: 3 YKYBHTLW... You start balancing your checkbook in hexadecimal. I unintentionally did this one day after far too many hours debugging assembly level code. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!dialup-5-85.gw.umn.edu!user Mon May 22 11:16:44 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!dialup-5-85.gw.umn.edu!user From: ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu (Greg "Torgo" Anderson) Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Message-ID: Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-5-85.gw.umn.edu Organization: Torgo Enterprises, LTD References: <3pjo6p$eve@sashimi.wwa.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 06:15:23 GMT Lines: 17 I recently spent 16 straight hours of SGI GL-based graphics programming, writing a horrendously slow (first try) ray-tracer, and by the time I got back home, it was an hour b4 I would be getting up. So I decided to forgo that silly sleep thing, and head out to class. Foolish person I am, with 3 classes from 8 to 12:30. I was of course dozing off thru all of them. Every time I nodded off, images of vectors flying down to stab me, and huge spheres and cones bouncing around. This continued thru all my classes, and filled most of my dreams during my nap between lunch & dinner. Too much ray tracing hurts the noggin. Greg -- ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu GCS d@ H- S+: g-(+) p1 au+ a- w+ v-(+) C++ PGP 2.6 Public key US?+>++ P+ L 3 E N++ K W--- M+>++ V-- -po+ available via finger. Y+ t+ 5- j- R G' tv+ b+ D B--- e+ u+(-) f(+) r*() n-(--) y+(*) ======http://monopoly.cs.umn.edu/~torgo====== From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!uknet!strath-cs!info!cs92dy Mon May 22 16:29:59 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!uknet!strath-cs!info!cs92dy From: cs92dy@dcs.exeter.ac.uk (D.Young) Subject: YKYBHTLW Message-ID: Lines: 12 Sender: news@exeter.ac.uk (news admin) Organization: Computer Unit, University of Exeter, UK Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:48:58 GMT You sit down in front of an Indy eith Indy Cam to grab a picture of yourself. You start up the input monitor program and only the top of you head is visible... You think why aren't there any scroll bars on this window? Dave (I must need some sleep) Young. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!tnglwood.demon.co.uk!unclebob Fri May 26 09:36:05 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!tnglwood.demon.co.uk!unclebob From: Robert Billing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 26 May 1995 08:11:42 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet News Service Lines: 32 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <801440879snz@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> References: <3pjo6p$eve@sashimi.wwa.com> <1995May20.124911.12767@rgfn.epcc.edu> <3pl6qe$893@news.mistral.co.uk> <3pq1t8$c2c@columbia.acc.brad.ac.uk> <3pq50j$80a@mishmash.brunel.ac.uk> <3pq9jd$1iv@muikku.jmp.fi> Reply-To: unclebob@tnglwood.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dispatch.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 X-Posting-Host: tnglwood.demon.co.uk YKYBHTLW.... 1) You find that they've printed the the plot of this week's Next Generation in Radio Times and you say "Why didn't they rot13 this?" 2) Linda Snell & John Archer are trying to remember what was engraved on the cricket trophy and you start looking through the backup tapes. 3) The demon internet time server puts your PC clock right & you don't know why your watch is still wrong. 4) You put a tape in the VHS machine and try to type "mount mub1:/foreign" on the little keyboard. #ifndef British Radio Times is a listings magazine, published by the BBC, LS & JA are characters in a *very* long running radio serial, JA has lost the village cricket trophy and is trying to have a duplicate made, but can't remember what was engraved on it, demon are a UK dialup internet service provider. Mount mub1:, see any VMS manual. #endif #if Paranoia Does anyone read my postings, or have I got into all 15 million kill files in my first month on the 'net? C:-) <= Smile+crash helmet. #endif -- Tanglewood (tnglwood.demon.co.uk) is a bungalow in southern England, close to 0 deg 46 min W 51 deg 22 min N. I am Robert Billing, Christian, inventor, traveller, cook and animal lover. "If you can see beauty in the world, then you are reading God's .sig" From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!mixcom.com!Steven.Mading Fri May 26 09:37:40 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!mixcom.com!Steven.Mading From: Steven Mading Subject: Re: YKYBHTLWÿ Message-ID: <1995May26.011901.3624@mixcom.com> Originator: aammaa@mixcom.mixcom.com Sender: news@mixcom.com (Net News Admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: mixcom.mixcom.com Organization: MIX Communications, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A. info@mixcom.com References: <3ovaij$9h7@nntp4.u.washington.edu> <73.37289.1318@toadhall.com> <3q1q3m$6sv@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 01:19:01 GMT Lines: 20 YKYBHTLW you find yourself composing regular expressions on the fly in your head to help look up something in the encyclopedia, or to find the restroom on on of those building room-directory boards, or to find your favourite show in the T.V. listings. When you go so far that you begin looking for the '^' key on the T.V. remote control (so that you can make sure you only find your T.V. show's name when it's at the start of an entry), then it's time to go to sleep. Expecially when you think you've found the carat (^) key on the remote, so you hit the key and nothing happens. So you hit it again. And again. And again. And ... dammit - why is the T.V. so loud all of a sudden? -- Steven.Mading@mixcom.com - In order to prevent programmers from being able to make mistakes one would need to prevent programmers from being able to make programs. Hence if your goal is to avoid programming errors then there's no point in drafting up constricting rules and regulations. Just delete the compiler from the system. It is a much faster and more complete means toward the same ends. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail Fri May 26 15:11:24 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: stcass@maths.tcd.ie (Stephen Cass) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 26 May 1995 18:50:17 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3q54cp$p9d@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3pjo6p$eve@sashimi.wwa.com> <3ptgmu$m1c@calvin.st-and.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: salmon.maths.tcd.ie dtrg@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Thomas Richard Given) writes: >You think that's bad? When the lab discovered xblast (great game; can't >wait for the XPM version), we played it solid for hours. I was running >around dropping bombs all over the place all night. A friend and myself would play Doom against each other in the local student publications office. After six - seven hours when it would be time to get the last bus, we would catch ourselves trying to walk through doors by aiming in the general direction and then being surprised when we didn't just slide along the wall towards the door. And you wonder why everything isn't gently rolling up and down... Steve From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!student.uq.edu.au!ph330812 Tue May 30 15:50:09 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!student.uq.edu.au!ph330812 From: ph330812@student.uq.edu.au (Jason Parker) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW Date: 30 May 1995 10:04:25 GMT Organization: University of Queensland Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3qeqj9$nnu@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: student.uq.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] YKYBHTLW: you're trying to think of a filename to save your latest whiz-bang coomand under, and you hit the [TAB] key, expecting tcsh to think of the rest for you. -- --- This .sig is under the GNU public license. You may copy it in whole or in part, and it may be used for any purpose, but only if you acknowledge the original author: Jason Parker, Univ. of Queensland, Queensland, Australia. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.com!pburgess Tue May 30 15:54:13 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.com!pburgess From: pburgess@netcom.com (Phillip Burgess) Subject: YKybHTlw... Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 07:07:24 GMT Lines: 9 Sender: pburgess@netcom12.netcom.com ...you compose an elabroate and well-structured post, then type "make". YKYBUANTLW (You Know You've Been Using a Newton Too Long When)... You read someone else's YKYBHTLW about trying to insert text on a chalkboard, and you think, "What's the big deal? Just draw the 'insert gesture' in the appropriate spot." -- Phillip Burgess (pburgess@netcom.com) -- Original or New Minty-Fresh Gel! From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!uknet!strath-cs!bradford.ac.uk!ajcribbi Thu Jun 1 11:50:07 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!uknet!strath-cs!bradford.ac.uk!ajcribbi From: A.J.Cribbin@bradford.ac.uk (a.j.cribbin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 1 Jun 1995 11:34:53 GMT Organization: University of Bradford Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3qk8kt$1qt@columbia.acc.brad.ac.uk> References: <3pjo6p$eve@sashimi.wwa.com> <3ptgmu$m1c@calvin.st-and.ac.uk> <3q54cp$p9d@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <3q6cf1$6kf@nntp4.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cinnamon.acc.brad.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : In article <3q54cp$p9d@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, : Stephen Cass wrote: : >A friend and myself would play Doom against each other in the local : >student publications office. After six - seven hours when it would be : >time to get the last bus, we would catch ourselves trying to walk through : >doors by aiming in the general direction and then being surprised when : >we didn't just slide along the wall towards the door. And you wonder : >why everything isn't gently rolling up and down... I couldn't get used to opening doors after playing Doom. Every time I came to a door I'd have an urge to reach for the "space bar". When I first got a Gameboy I played Tetris for hours at a time. For weeks I dreamed about playing tetris, and whenever I was relaxing behind my eyes I could see the tetris blocks floating down and locking into position. Andrew J. Cribbin From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!sunserver.insinc.net!news.Direct.CA!scipio.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!news.mindlink.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!news.ucla.edu!eijkhout Fri Jun 2 10:11:43 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!sunserver.insinc.net!news.Direct.CA!scipio.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!news.mindlink.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!news.ucla.edu!eijkhout From: eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YYHB cruising the web TLW Date: 01 Jun 1995 22:51:06 GMT Organization: UCLA Math Department Lines: 9 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: jacobi.math.ucla.edu reading an underlined word in a book gives you the impulse to click on it to see what it links to. Happened to me yesterday. -- Victor Eijkhout 405 Hilgard Ave ................................... A modern US Navy cruiser Department of Mathematics, UCLA ............ now requires 26 tons of manuals. Los Angeles CA 90024 ................. This is enough to affect the vessel's phone: +1 310 825 2173 / 9036 .................. performance [New Scientist] home: +1 310 209 0068 ----- http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/ ----------- From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!emf.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!cronkite.nersc.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!jove!mpsayler Fri Jun 2 10:13:12 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!emf.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!cronkite.nersc.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!jove!mpsayler From: mpsayler@jove.acs.unt.edu (Matthew Peter Sayler) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 2 Jun 1995 03:18:45 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 30 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3qlvul$s8b@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <3pjo6p$eve@sashimi.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jove.acs.unt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Victor Eijkhout (eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu) wrote: > In article <3qk8kt$1qt@columbia.acc.brad.ac.uk> A.J.Cribbin@bradford.ac.uk (a.j.cribbin) writes: > > When I first got a Gameboy I played Tetris for hours at a time. > > For weeks I dreamed about playing tetris, and whenever I was relaxing > > behind my eyes I could see the tetris blocks floating down and locking > > into position. > Games like pong also do that to you. Lessee, it bounces off this wall, > then this desk, that partition, and so on. Yeah. I remember riding from Denton (near Dallas) Texas to Nashville and playing Windoze Solitare on a Grid 386-25 notebook. I still maintain that pen is the only way to play that game. Well, after playing this for a few hours, when I finally arrived at my destination to help with some video work (telepromter!) I noticed that I started to mentally stack people up light-hair, dark-hair, light-hair, dark-hair. ARGH! I just wanted to cry. Cheers. M@ -- -- Matt Sayler -- Univ. North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA ---- . _ _ ,--. -- TAMS: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger" --- | | | | .-| -- email: mpsayler@jove.asc.unt.edu, saylor@tcet.unt.edu --- | | | | |_| -- http://tcet.unt.edu/~saylor/www - voice: (817)369-6420 -- `-__.` Try to be the best of whatever you are, even if what you are is no good. From da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!ucsnews!rohan!stremler Fri Jun 2 10:13:33 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!ucsnews!rohan!stremler From: stremler@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (Stewart Stremler) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 2 Jun 1995 08:24:44 GMT Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3qmhsc$iac@gondor.sdsu.edu> References: <3pjo6p$eve@sashimi.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.191.1.100 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Victor Eijkhout (eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu) wrote: [snip] > Games like pong also do that to you. Lessee, it bounces off this wall, > then this desk, that partition, and so on. Rogue. Wake up in the AM, lessee, when this paralysis wears off, it's diagonal, diagonal, over, and I'm safe in the doorway [to the bathroom]... Scared myself to death one morning when the paralysis _didn't_ wear off. I was wrapped too tight in the blanket, and couldn't move. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More-- From da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!well!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newshost.ea.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!barilvm!news.biu.ac.il!news.tau.ac.il!NetVision.net.il!usenet Tue Jun 6 10:38:37 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!well!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newshost.ea.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!barilvm!news.biu.ac.il!news.tau.ac.il!NetVision.net.il!usenet From: ZeMonsta Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYB surfing TLW Date: 4 Jun 1995 14:09:15 GMT Organization: NetVision USENET Site. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3qseqb$259@dns.netvision.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts34p3.netvision.net.il I read a book yesterday (real one!) when I stumbled upon the phrase: "Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs". Ey??? Oh! Greeks bearing gifts! ZeMonsta ------------------------------------------------------------------ From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!not-for-mail Thu Jun 8 14:56:53 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!not-for-mail From: acb@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C Bulhak) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW Date: 7 Jun 1995 10:59:27 GMT Organization: Institute for Denotational Semiotics Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3r40qf$4ls@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bruce.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 941213BETA PL0] ...you start writing (by hand) a Post-It(tm) note to someone, and start in lower-case, as you can't be bothered to mentally hold down SHIFT. Happened to me yesterday; I only started adding uppercase when I had to include the name of a shop in the note. -- Andrew Bulhak acb@cs.monash.edu.au acb@dev.null.org TRUTH IS THE ORIGINAL LIE. From da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!hookup!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!demon!burnout.demon.co.uk!Obscurity Fri Jun 9 17:12:38 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!hookup!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!demon!burnout.demon.co.uk!Obscurity From: Obscurity Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYB surfing TLW Date: 7 Jun 1995 18:39:06 +0100 Organization: The Idiot Children Lines: 10 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <802461791snz@burnout.demon.co.uk> References: <3qseqb$259@dns.netvision.net.il> Reply-To: Obscurity@burnout.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dispatch.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 X-Posting-Host: burnout.demon.co.uk YKYNBHLEWYS'YKNWBSTL' You know you've not been hacking long enough when you say 'You know when you've been surfing too long'. ^^^^^^^ -- Obscurity. Selling ruin to the ruined. "Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure." - Oscar Wilde. From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!dialup-2-136.gw.umn.edu!user Tue Jun 13 13:40:47 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!dialup-2-136.gw.umn.edu!user From: ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu (Greg "Torgo" Anderson) Subject: Re: YKYBMacHTLW Message-ID: Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-2-136.gw.umn.edu Organization: Torgo Enterprises, LTD References: <3qeqj9$nnu@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> <3r0sqe$ehl@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3r40h6$4ls@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 04:39:10 GMT Lines: 12 ...I booted up 2night, and saw the usual slew of icons on the desktop, and the first thought in my mind was, "Gee, I should clean this up, so it'll be easier to move back home..." (I'm moving back to rent-free land 2morrow). Greg -- ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu GCS d@ H- S+: g-(+) p1 au+ a- w+ v-(+) C++ PGP 2.6 Public key US?+>++ P+ L 3 E N++ K W--- M+>++ V-- -po+ available via finger. Y+ t+ 5- j- R G' tv+ b+ D B--- e+ u+(-) f(+) r*() n-(--) y+(*) ======http://monopoly.cs.umn.edu/~torgo====== From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!eur.nl!news.fgg.eur.nl!tca-247-50.tca.fgg.eur.nl!citroen Thu Jun 15 11:30:33 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!eur.nl!news.fgg.eur.nl!tca-247-50.tca.fgg.eur.nl!citroen From: citroen@fgg.eur.nl (Mieke Citroen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:30:12 Organization: University Hospital Rotterdam, Cardiology Dept. Lines: 11 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: tca-247-50.tca.fgg.eur.nl X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Well, it doesn't happen too often to me, but looks like I have to cut down on computer time RSN: While happily reading away news, I overheard a collegue in the hallway : "Let me write down this beeper number". And before I could stop myself, I thought "Why doesn't she just simply cut 'n paste it from the whiteboard to the phonelist?" Ack! -- Mieke Citroen. From da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!news.bu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!Sunserver.insinc.net!cuugnet!wooga!camz Tue Jun 27 13:16:25 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!csn!gw1.att.com!news.bu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!Sunserver.insinc.net!cuugnet!wooga!camz From: camz@wooga.cuug.ab.ca (Martin Zimmerman) Subject: YKYBHTLW... Organization: Camz Enterprises Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 16:17:53 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: Lines: 16 I decided to go to the gym again after having been away from it for a couple of months. As I was getting changed and rumaging through my gym bag I realized I couldn't find my combination lock. After a couple of minutes I did find it and then as I pulled it out I said to my friends "Gee, I don't know if I even remember the password to this thing". Took me a few seconds to realize that the lock has a combination, not a password and that I had even said anything wrong. By this time my friends were laughing their heads off. Cheers, Camz. -- Martin Zimmerman - Camz Enterprises - QNX Programming & Consulting WWW: http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~zimmerm/ email: camz@wooga.cuug.ab.ca Keeper of the QNX FAQ. finger: zimmerm@www.cuug.ab.ca Work in realtime - work in QNX. From da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!crawford Mon Jul 3 15:06:26 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!crawford From: crawford@scipp.ucsc.edu (Mike Crawford) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 1 Jul 1995 17:00:04 GMT Organization: UC Santa Cruz - SCIPP Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3t3uuk$en6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <3t14j2$kq3@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <3t166q$lfo@natasha.rmii.com> <3t1cn8$m7c@fountain.mindlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: scipp.ucsc.edu Early in my freshman year I stayed up all night doing Calculus. In the morning, I leaned against a wall in the kitchen watching my friend prepare some cheerios. As I did so, space aliens intersected my body with an infinitesimally thin planar beam, then scanned it accross my body adding up all the areas. I snapped awake with a feeling of profound embarrassment that they had measured my volume precisely. Several years later, I lay in bed asleep and had a dream in which I wished to drive my car onto the highway onramp to go home from my programming job, but I was frustrated because I could not find the right scanf() format string to read my car into the highway. In between, I bought my first car. A few days later I stayed up all night programming. I got paid in the morning, and spent much of the day blowing my paycheck. Then I decided to drive to my parent's house to show them my car. (This was in Fairfield, ordinarily a two-hour drive from Santa Cruz). I woke abruptly going 30 miles an hour in an intersection on University Avenue in Berkeley without any memory as to how I got there - this was real, not a dream. A while later, after night fell, each of the headlights in the oncoming traffic formed a little raster-scanned IBM PC character, like they had on the original DOS mono monitors. The whole of the oncoming traffic spelled out things like "Look out! You're going to crash!". -- Mike Crawford crawford@scruznet.com <-- note change of address. crawford@maxwell.ucsc.edu <-- Finger Me here for PGP Public Key From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!hookup!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!infoserv!billcorn!billcorn Mon Jul 3 15:10:17 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!hookup!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!infoserv!billcorn!billcorn Message-ID: <766306d524203t65@billcorn.infoserv.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 01:10:02 -0800 From: "Bill Cornutt" X-Mailer: Infoserv Connection's WinMail Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers References: <3t14j2$kq3@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <3t166q$lfo@natasha.rmii.com> <3t1cn8$m7c@fountain.mindlink.net> <3t3uuk$en6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Lines: 16 ---------- After a long session of debugging a program, I went into another room. I fliped the light switch on and was surprised when the room lit up without me trouble shouting the switch. --------- Bill Cornutt billcorn@infoserv.com Located in Ione California USA. A small town in Northern California. Sitting against the foothills of the Mother Load. ---------------------------------------------------- "Kooky Kooky, lend me your comb." From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!dns1.net-connect.net!usenet Mon Jul 3 15:12:29 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!dns1.net-connect.net!usenet From: dano@net-connect.net Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 3 Jul 1995 00:15:58 GMT Organization: Net-Connect.Net Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3t7cru$qsk@dns1.net-connect.net> References: <3t14j2$kq3@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: as04.net-connect.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.09 .. when you ask someone in the lab a question to solve a problem in your code, get their answer, and start to move you mouse to highlight-copy what they said for pasting into your editor... true story Dan Stephenson dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu "To conquer death, you only have to die." - JC From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newshost.ea.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!nntp.hk.super.net!tst.hk.super.net!usenet Mon Jul 3 15:17:20 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newshost.ea.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!nntp.hk.super.net!tst.hk.super.net!usenet From: pdwalker@hk.super.net (Paul D. Walker) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 3 Jul 1995 16:56:48 GMT Organization: HK Computer Solutions Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3t97gg$t7m@tst.hk.super.net> Reply-To: pdwalker@hk.super.net (Paul D. Walker) NNTP-Posting-Host: slip53.hk.super.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.09 ..After debugging VAX assembly for 30 hours straight and then go to sleep, dreaming of getting caught in a series of endless function calls with no way to return up through the call stack. It was one of the very FEW dreams that made me wake up in a cold sweat. - Paul /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Paul D. Walker Consultant // // pdwalker@HK.super.NET HK Computer Solutions // /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!netnews.upenn.edu!netaxs.com!usenet Thu Jul 6 17:00:47 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!netnews.upenn.edu!netaxs.com!usenet From: kyle cassidy Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 4 Jul 1995 05:37:00 GMT Organization: NUMA Lines: 7 Message-ID: <3tak1s$aep@netaxs.com> References: <3t14j2$kq3@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <3t166q$lfo@natasha.rmii.com> <3t1cn8$m7c@fountain.mindlink.net> <3t3uuk$en6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <766306d524203t65@billcorn.infoserv.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: downtown1-22.slip.netaxs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b1 (Windows; I; 16bit) last week i went to visit my mother -- we were standing in the kitchen and she said "kyle, click on the light".... it took me a good 5 seconds to figure out how to do it. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail Thu Jul 6 17:15:16 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 5 Jul 1995 13:51:01 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3temul$d1n@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3t97gg$t7m@tst.hk.super.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com I once dreamed I had to go to the bathroom and I couldn't get in because I'd fucked up the device driver for the door. Another time I dreamed I'd done the same thing to my eyelids, and I couldn't fix them because I couldn't get my eyes open. -- If the best part of waking up is Folgers in the cup... ... I hate to imagine what the rest of the day must be like. (we paid for their meal, you think they're gonna tell us our coffee's lousy?) From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU!jgt7c Thu Jul 6 17:16:01 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU!jgt7c From: jgt7c@darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU (Old Man Kensey) Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... X-Nntp-Posting-Host: darwin.clas.virginia.edu Message-ID: Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <3t14j2$kq3@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <3t3uuk$en6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <766306d524203t65@billcorn.infoserv.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 22:45:04 GMT Lines: 12 At work, we paste price labels for intangible "items" (labor, shipping) on the register's monitor. Today I was thinking, "Gee, we rarely use shipping, let's move it to the bottom, and put labor at eye level on the right, where it's easily spotted." After thinking which, I reached for the mouse... -- Joe Thompson, Programmer/Analyst | GraphFunction 3.5... | Proud owner of a of HyperCard, C++, BASIC, Pascal | (C) October 12, 1993 | Micro$quish-free CLAS II, Astronomy-Physics major | kensey@virginia.edu. | Macintosh 5200CD University of Virginia, c/o 1998 | http://darwin.clas.virginia.edu/~jgt7c/ From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!usenet Thu Jul 6 17:17:02 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!usenet From: leadfoot@julian.slip.uwo.ca (Alexander M. Bilan) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 02:31:21 Organization: Street Rod Hell Lines: 9 Message-ID: <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts5-5.slip.uwo.ca X-Authenticated: jyergaw@ts5-5.slip.uwo.ca Once when having typed at the computer most of the day, I actually had to write(!) something down and made a spelling error. I stopped mid-word, while my hand immediately went to where the 'delete' key is supposed to be. Mr.V-8 // The opinions expressed above are strictly the opinions of my fingers \X/ and may not reflect the opinions of the other apendages. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!eff!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!netaxs.com!billd Fri Jul 7 15:56:29 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!eff!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!netaxs.com!billd From: billd@netaxs.com (Bill Duetschler) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 7 Jul 1995 02:17:02 GMT Organization: Philadelphia's Complete Internet Provider Lines: 6 Message-ID: <3ti5eu$q7q@netaxs.com> References: <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: unix2.netaxs.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Once I aimed my remote at the TV and pointed it at the upper left corner, where the "close" box should have been, and double-clicked the "power" button on the remote. billd@netaxs.com From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!qns3.qns.com!qns2.qns.com!not-for-mail Fri Jul 7 15:56:39 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!qns3.qns.com!qns2.qns.com!not-for-mail From: mjarvis@qns2.qns.com (Michael Jarvis) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 7 Jul 1995 01:29:00 -0500 Organization: Questar Network Services Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3tik7c$kha@qns2.qns.com> References: <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: qns2.qns.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] YKYBHTLW you groggily wake up in the morning after a late night debugging and you try to power-cyle your alarm clock. (true story) -michael -- Michael Jarvis | Finger for PGP Public key | QNSnet Technical Support mjarvis@qns.com | http://www.qns.com/~mjarvis | Questar Network Services GCS d H- s+++: g? p+ au a25 w+ v C++++ USL++++$ P++++ L++>+++ 3- E--- N++ K W-- M- !V po Y+ t+ 5 j R G+ tv b+++ D++ B- e+>++ u+ h---(*) f+ r+++ !n y+++ From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!psuvm!tgt103 Fri Jul 7 15:56:58 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!psuvm!tgt103 Organization: Penn State University Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 14:16:59 EDT From: CREETE Message-ID: <95188.141659TGT103@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Lines: 0 When you try to pick the mouse up to answer the phone. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!kaboom.ufnet.ufl.edu!amigagod Fri Jul 7 15:57:30 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!kaboom.ufnet.ufl.edu!amigagod From: Out of his mind Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 15:41:45 -0500 Organization: UFNet Network Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca> <3tik7c$kha@qns2.qns.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaboom.ufnet.ufl.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3tik7c$kha@qns2.qns.com> X-URL: http://www.ufnet.ufl.edu/~amigagod/ All true: YKYBHTLW you write down the word "grep" in a school paper where you mean to say "search". YKYBHTLW you mentally convert the dresser clock's digital display (obviously now reading past 6 AM) into hexadecimal. YKYBHTLW patters seem to emerge in the BCD representation of pi. (0011.00010100000101011001011000100011010110001001....) ----- === Todd Vierling - UFNet, AmiNIX - todd@ufnet.ufl.edu, aminix@aminix.org === == Have you done your reality check today? == Exon is more gross black goo == == LAISSEZ-FAIRE - No Internet Censorship! == than the Valdez ever carried == == This post may be reprinted in full, but not by Apple Comp. or Microsoft == From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!emf.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!vtf.idx.com!rsf Mon Jul 10 15:08:05 1995 Xref: da_vinci alt.folklore.computers:74304 comp.sys.pen:8083 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.pen Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!emf.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!vtf.idx.com!rsf From: rsf@mother.idx.com (Rob Freundlich) Subject: YKYBUPCTLW (was Re: You know you've been hacking too long...) Message-ID: <1995Jul10.133249.21566@vtf.idx.com> Sender: news@vtf.idx.com (USENET News System) Organization: IDX Systems Corporation X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 References: <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 13:33:29 GMT Lines: 15 In article <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca>, leadfoot@julian.slip.uwo.ca (Alexander M. Bilan) wrote: > Once when having typed at the computer most of the day, I actually had to >write(!) something down and made a spelling error. I stopped mid-word, while >my hand immediately went to where the 'delete' key is supposed to be. You Know You've Been Using Pen Computing Too Long When your pen-and-paper notes start using the Graffiti character set and you draw a backwards line to erase a mistake. --- Rob Freundlich, Senior Software Engineer | "males are biologically driven IDX Systems Corporation | to go out and hunt giraffes" | - Newt Gingrich "Some folks you don't have to satirize, you just quote em" - Tom Paxton From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!dock.tiac.net!user Mon Jul 10 15:08:18 1995 Xref: da_vinci alt.folklore.computers:74307 comp.sys.pen:8084 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!dock.tiac.net!user From: jdb@tiac.net (Jim Bailey) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.pen Subject: Re: YKYBUPCTLW (was Re: You know you've been hacking too long...) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 10:29:17 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca> <1995Jul10.133249.21566@vtf.idx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dock.tiac.net In article <1995Jul10.133249.21566@vtf.idx.com>, rsf@mother.idx.com (Rob Freundlich) wrote: -> In article <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca>, -> leadfoot@julian.slip.uwo.ca (Alexander M. Bilan) wrote: -> > Once when having typed at the computer most of the day, I actually had to -> >write(!) something down and made a spelling error. I stopped mid-word, while -> >my hand immediately went to where the 'delete' key is supposed to be. -> -> You Know You've Been Using Pen Computing Too Long When your pen-and-paper -> notes start using the Graffiti character set and you draw a backwards line to -> erase a mistake. As a newton user, I've found myself trying to do the Newton scrub gesture to delete a word on paper. Luckily, no one really notices so it isn't really embarrasing. -- Jim Bailey Software Consulting Services for Mobile Computing Internet: jdb@tiac.net NewtonMail: jdb (jdb@eworld.com) From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Tue Jul 11 14:36:17 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: steven9226@aol.com (Steven9226) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 10 Jul 1995 18:55:18 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 2 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <3tsb4m$43h@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <3t2c8e$2uf@uucp.intac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader When you use the mouse cursor to torment the cat sitting the desk next to you. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Tue Jul 11 14:36:23 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: steven9226@aol.com (Steven9226) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 10 Jul 1995 18:55:19 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 3 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <3tsb4n$43j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader when you give your phone number in HEX. (worse yet, they understand it.) From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!matilda.vut.edu.au!cougar.vut.edu.au!cougar.vut.edu.au!not-for-mail Tue Jul 11 14:36:52 1995 Xref: da_vinci alt.gothic:92521 alt.folklore.computers:74404 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!matilda.vut.edu.au!cougar.vut.edu.au!cougar.vut.edu.au!not-for-mail From: gerdw@cougar.vut.edu.au (David Gerard) Newsgroups: alt.gothic,alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW (was Re: Poll: Why arent you the perfect goth?) Date: 11 Jul 1995 16:32:26 +1000 Organization: Victoria University of Technology Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3tt5tq$4ds@cougar.vut.edu.au> References: <3tg3se$dng@news.xmission.com> <3titfn$kgg@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3tj17r$t0s@news1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cougar.vut.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] On Fri, 07 Jul 1995 10:14:58 GMT, brass@pbrass.vip.best.com wrote: :scythrop@aol.com (Scythrop) wrote: :>Frankly, you are all ridiculous. No one is the perfect goth while :>utilising electricity and the telephone wire. In the future, please :>forward my Usenet messages telepathically by candelabra-light. :>Merci. :Electricity and the telephone wire??? Is that what everyone else :has been using?? Surely you jest. Well, your tele-msg came :through just fine but my telepathic powers are not terribly :reknowned; perhaps mine are not making it through and I'm just :thinking in the silence as my candles slowly shorten through the :night.... :katydid..."You mean you used a computer to read alt.gothic????" This morning, I dreamt that I was reading Usenet and accessing the Web by something like a wireless modem in my mind. (I'm pretty sure there was no device used in the dream -- that it was a sort of mental soft-modem.) I remember being asleep (in the dream) and knowing I was asleep ... and still reading the news in my sleep. I was even carried off to somewhere else by someone (hospital?) and I remember my sleeping-but-aware mind (in the dream) thinking, "Damn, hope the connection holds ..." I guess that would count as Usenet-by-telepathy. Crossposted to alt.folklore.computers for the YKYBHTLW thread. Dreams like that mean you're reading too much news. -- <.signature currently under reconstruction -- please wait.> Please email impor- tant followups (crappy and constipated newsfeed) Rev Dr David Gerard VUT SRC Footscray NoName gerdw@cougar.vut.edu.au (preferred) fun@suburbia.apana.org.au July 5, 1998, 7 AM. Saucers. End of the world. Your US$30 is your trip ticket. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!csulb.edu!info.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!dialup-1-56.gw.umn.edu!user Tue Jul 11 14:36:58 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!csulb.edu!info.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!dialup-1-56.gw.umn.edu!user From: ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu (Greg "Torgo" Anderson) Subject: YKYBHTLW... Message-ID: Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-1-56.gw.umn.edu Organization: Torgo Enterprises, LTD Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 07:13:01 GMT Lines: 10 While driving along, you come up behind a car who's license plate reads "961 EXE", and you wonder why anyone would name a program "961". Greg -- ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu GCS d@ H- S+: g-(+) p1 au+ a- w+ v-(+) C++ PGP 2.6 Public key US?+>++ P+ L 3 E N++ K W--- M+>++ V-- -po+ available via finger. Y+ t+ 5- j- R G' tv+ b+ D B--- e+ u+(-) f(+) r*() n-(--) y+(*) ======http://monopoly.cs.umn.edu/~torgo====== From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!pss100.psi.ch!psi.ch!reid Tue Jul 11 14:37:19 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!pss100.psi.ch!psi.ch!reid From: reid@psi.ch (Dr Ivan D Reid, µSR Facility, PSI) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 11 Jul 1995 13:51 +0200 Organization: Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <11JUL199513512471@psi.ch> References: <19950706.7B0E468.27A4@julian.slip.uwo.ca> <3ti5eu$q7q@netaxs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: psw106.psi.ch News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 In article <3ti5eu$q7q@netaxs.com>, billd@netaxs.com (Bill Duetschler) writes... >Once I aimed my remote at the TV and pointed it at the upper left corner, >where the "close" box should have been, and double-clicked the "power" >button on the remote. Almost did that myself yesterday. I wanted to check the time-lapse satellite pictures on the service channel to see how the thunderstorms were developing. I managed to catch the right portion of their cycle of info, but apparently there was a glitch in the Mac they use to cycle the pictures, and it stayed stuck on one particular frame. After staring at it for a minute or so, I started thinking about clicking on the spinning globe to break the connexion and try again... Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH. reid@psi.ch From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!strath-cs!st-and!rea Tue Jul 11 14:37:31 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!strath-cs!st-and!rea Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Message-ID: <3ttrd8$4h9@calvin.st-and.ac.uk> From: rea@st-andrews.ac.uk (Robert E Arthur) Date: 11 Jul 1995 12:39:04 GMT References: <3tsb4n$43j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Organization: University Of St. Andrews NNTP-Posting-Host: bute.st-andrews.ac.uk Lines: 7 I swore I would never add to this again (I O/D'd on the thread a year or two back!), but today I was labelling a disk, and suddenly thought `I can't do that - it's write-protected' Bob. From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!cannon Wed Jul 12 11:18:27 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!cannon From: cannon@netcom.com (Chris Cannon) Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <3t14j2$kq3@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <3t1cn8$m7c@fountain.mindlink.net> <3t3uuk$en6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <766306d524203t65@billcorn.infoserv.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 16:10:16 GMT Lines: 7 Sender: cannon@netcom18.netcom.com Not hacking, but I used to find myself playing Tetris in my head for quite awhile after a long session of it on the ocmputer. (Maybe it really was a communist plot!) -- -- ================= cannon@netcom.com From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!tnglwood.demon.co.uk!unclebob Wed Jul 12 16:21:34 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!demon!tnglwood.demon.co.uk!unclebob From: Robert Billing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 20:57:03 GMT Lines: 8 Message-ID: <805496223snz@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> References: Reply-To: unclebob@tnglwood.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: tnglwood.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 You see a sign saying "Lawnmowers, best prices & sound advice" and wonder how they got a sound card into a lawnmower. -- Tanglewood (tnglwood.demon.co.uk) is a bungalow in southern England, close to 0:46W 51:22N. I am Robert Billing, Christian, inventor, traveller, cook and animal lover. "Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal" C.S.Lewis in The Screwtape Letters From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!news.cais.com!skosack.fred.net!not-for-mail Wed Jul 12 16:22:05 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!news.cais.com!skosack.fred.net!not-for-mail From: daniel@skosack.fred.net (Daniel Kosack) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 12 Jul 1995 00:33:38 GMT Organization: The Kosack system at FredNet. Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3tv592$9t8@news.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.76.178.148 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 941216BETA PL0] You know you've been hacking too long when... you try to change the window manager on your living room window. -- Daniel Kosack -= Proud user of Linux =- DOS == Dead On System UNIX == Ultimate Necessity, Intelligent eXecution From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!liv!lucs!s5cfh Thu Jul 20 14:43:42 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!liv!lucs!s5cfh From: s5cfh@csc.liv.ac.uk (C.F. Hankel) Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Sender: news@csc.liv.ac.uk (News Eater) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:38:42 GMT Lines: 8 References: <3tsb4n$43j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: s5cfh@loire.csc.liv.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University You leave the installation, take a 15-minute bus ride to the ferry. (here it's the famous one) You take the ferry and then a 20-minute bus ride home. The next morning, you reverse yesterday evening's journey to arrive back at the installation and see your car parked in the car park. How many days have I been doing this? Since Monday, it's now Thursday. Charles (who needs a car?) From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!news.sccsi.com!nuchat!tty04.com2.oknet.com!user Mon Jul 24 14:27:36 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!news.sccsi.com!nuchat!tty04.com2.oknet.com!user From: jlower@tulsa.com (Bob Macks) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 09:23:00 -0500 Organization: CrunchCo Lines: 6 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <95188.141659TGT103@psuvm.psu.edu> <19950720.165803.66@powerslv.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tty04.com2.oknet.com X-Newsreader: Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b24.0+ When you try to format the new tape you just put in your VCR (and panic because you can't remember how). -- Superabat Opus Materium -Ovid From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!hubcap.clemson.edu!gkemp Mon Jul 24 14:27:50 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!hubcap.clemson.edu!gkemp From: gkemp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Greg Kemp) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Date: 23 Jul 1995 22:12:58 GMT Organization: Clemson University ILP Laboratory Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3uuhha$rqt@hubcap.clemson.edu> References: <95188.141659TGT103@psuvm.psu.edu> <19950720.165803.66@powerslv.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: gkemp@ces.clemson.edu (Greg Kemp) NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.127.214.25 You know you've been hacking MIPS assembler too long when... After a visitor left my little office, I thought "now I can get back to what I was doing. JR 31." -- Greg Kemp gkemp@ces.clemson.edu <- *not* gkemp@IRO.Umontreal.CA !! "Would you trade your words for freedom?" From da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!EU.net!chsun!cgchb!news Wed Jul 26 18:18:54 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!EU.net!chsun!cgchb!news From: bill.bochnik@ustc.mhs.ciba.com (Bill Bochnik) Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long... Message-ID: <1995Jul26.145008.15115@ciba-geigy.ch> Sender: news@ciba-geigy.ch Nntp-Posting-Host: 128.246.239.73 Organization: Ciba Additives X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 References: <3tsb4n$43j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 14:50:08 GMT Lines: 18 In article , s5cfh@csc.liv.ac.uk says... Yesterday was a particularly bad day (Con_ed dropped our power for 5 hours). Anyway, I was sitting at my PC at 11pm, with a vt420 next to it. I was working on the pc, and went to switch to the terminal, so I grabbed the mouse and ... -- Bill Bochnik | It's hard to be a James Bond in | an Abbott and Costello world. Systems Analyst | Signed and sealed, they deliver Ciba-Geigy Corporation | oblivion. bill.bochnik@usha.mhs.ciba.com | It's worse than that, he's | dead Jim. // // // / / EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail Mon Jul 31 18:03:36 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: aecolley@maths.tcd.ie (Adrian Colley) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: You know you've been hacking too long Date: 29 Jul 1995 20:55:49 +0100 Organization: Pansilvan-eschatological Dendrochronology Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3ve3o5$86v@bell.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: Adrian.Colley@three.serpentine.com NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie YKYBHTL when you're driving on a motorway and you worry that you shouldn't be driving as root, in case you crash and do damage to your car. If there was a way to do your driving in an unprivileged user mode, I'd feel safer with that. --adrian. http://wuh.three.serpentine.com/u/aecolley/ From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!beyond.escape.com!escape.com!dokee Wed Aug 2 17:06:03 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!beyond.escape.com!escape.com!dokee From: dokee@escape.com (inc.) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 2 Aug 1995 02:50:29 GMT Organization: Escape Internet Access Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vmp5l$pgv@beyond.escape.com> References: <3v8vg1$t5k@news4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: escape.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mikael Cardell (mkc@maja.bull.se) wrote: : In article <3v8vg1$t5k@news4.digex.net> mikej@gacorp.com (Michael A. Jacobs) writes: : you see a license plate with ATZ on it and instantly think 'OK' : You see a license plate on a bus with DDN on it and think "Uh, a : military bus, perhaps I should get off". : -- : Mikael Cardell, Dharma Hacker : /* No, I don't speak for Bull */ You are afraid to turn off the TV without unmounting syncing disks and unmounting the file systems. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? _I_ _am_ _DoKee!_ ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? From da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!uknet!gdt!aber!not-for-mail Wed Aug 2 17:06:27 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!uknet!gdt!aber!not-for-mail From: auj@aber.ac.uk (Alun "Da Penguin" Jones) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKWYBHTLW... (was Re: Computer networks/modems in movies) Date: 2 Aug 1995 13:06:04 +0100 Organization: Prifysgol Cymru (University of Wales) Aberystwyth Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3vnpnc$tbl@osfa.aber.ac.uk> References: <3vbuv2$vqk@news.gate.net> <3vjo3e$ahl@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: osfa.aber.ac.uk Further up the screen Will Rose (cwr@crash.cts.com) wrote: > >Essentially it is a long chase through bad sets, with regular >explosions, shooting and so on. You know when you've been hacking too long when you read the above as: Essentially it is a long chase through bad sets, with regular EXPRESSIONS, shooting and so on. Sigh, it's too hot here and my brain is frying. Alun. -- $_='\=*Sxw!jds@j$.jl.dt#Rw%^dcn"K1x(=Bl1nwl!\*1enab^h"F=!J$h%fhcq', tr&J-ZA-Ij-za-i&A-Za-z&&s&\(&logic&&&s&\*&un&g&s&=&al&g&s&\^&it&g&& s&%&st&g&&s&\$&ber&g&s&\#&\n&&s&"& of&g,s&([A-Z])& $1&g&&s&\\u&U&&& s&!&es, &g&s&\\a&A&&s&1&i&g&&print" $_\n";sub liminal{"use perl!";} From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!beyond.escape.com!escape.com!dokee Wed Aug 2 18:10:05 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!beyond.escape.com!escape.com!dokee From: dokee@escape.com (inc.) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 2 Aug 1995 23:27:52 GMT Organization: Escape Internet Access Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vp1lo$3ps@beyond.escape.com> References: <3v8vg1$t5k@news4.digex.net> <3vmp5l$pgv@beyond.escape.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: escape.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] inc. (dokee@escape.com) wrote: : Mikael Cardell (mkc@maja.bull.se) wrote: : : In article <3v8vg1$t5k@news4.digex.net> mikej@gacorp.com (Michael A. Jacobs) writes: : : you see a license plate with ATZ on it and instantly think 'OK' : : You see a license plate on a bus with DDN on it and think "Uh, a : : military bus, perhaps I should get off". : : -- : : Mikael Cardell, Dharma Hacker : : /* No, I don't speak for Bull */ YNYBHTL when you're lying in bed after a day of learning sed and awk and you start to think you're a file system. -- ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? _I_ _am_ _DoKee!_ ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!rune Tue Aug 8 16:15:48 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!rune From: rune@nvg.unit.no (Rune Sandnes) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 2 Aug 1995 23:09:01 GMT Organization: Nettverksgruppa Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3vp0id$eqt@due.unit.no> References: <3v8vg1$t5k@news4.digex.net> <3vb9h0$jic@mailnews.kub.nl> <3vg6u8$rrb@uucp.intac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kanutten.nvg.unit.no In article <3vg6u8$rrb@uucp.intac.com>, Phillip Erwin wrote: >I've got a similair one, I saw a license plate `PGP 823', and the first >thing that came to my mind was, `Hey, the release hasn't gotten that far, I saw a Swedish car in town the other day, with a licence plate that went something like `DNS 123'. I automatically parsed that to `Domain Name Service', and laughed a bit at myself for doing so. Later that day, I told a fellow hacker about the incident, that I had seen a DNS-registered car, and automatically parsed that into `Domain Name Service' "Why should a car be registered in DNS?" he pondered. The very notion that I was talking about the car's registration plates didn't occur to him at all :-) Rune -- Rune Sandnes "Jag tror på TV och http://www.nvg.unit.no/~rune/ demokrati" --Michael Wiehe From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!usenet Wed Aug 16 14:53:23 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!usenet From: acb@indy01.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C Bulhak) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTL Date: 16 Aug 1995 09:49:13 GMT Organization: Radio Free Albemuth Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: indy01.cs.monash.edu.au You know you've been hacking too long when.... .... you receive an electronic message from someone asking a yes/no question and reply with "y" (or "n"). Happened to me the other day. acb "because...." -- /d/def/s/scale/u/dup/f/forall{load def}{loop}stopped pop/r{u 1 lt{-1 0 moveto 1 1 lineto stroke}{[[(ha_a0\211)(db\\h\(~)(eVhdOj)(jd_dbd)(dh\\bT\200)(f_ab^\211) (c]ffe\201)(`@h`x\200)(cZhd#h)(hb^d0v)(`Lh`8t)(eVhd\223~)(gj^a\230j)(h_ab\210a) (gd^c\211\205)]{[exch{96 sub}f]}f]{gsave 1 64 div u s concat u 1 sub r grestore }f}ifelse pop}d 240 u s 1.25 1 translate 4 r showpage% - acb@cs.monash.edu.au - From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!cmiller Tue Aug 22 14:18:15 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!cmiller From: cmiller@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Charles Miller) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL Date: 19 Aug 1995 06:43:50 GMT Organization: Pastiche Productions Lines: 13 Message-ID: <414176$9av@styx.uwa.edu.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] In acb@indy01.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C Bulhak) writes: >You know you've been hacking too long when.... >.... you receive an electronic message from someone asking a yes/no question >and reply with "y" (or "n"). ... or you're talking to someone and want to know what the time is, and you catch yourself saying "date?" Charles Miller (question mark included to indicate inflection.) From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!wave.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!bt!btnet!uunet!in1.uu.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!llyene!news Thu Aug 31 11:47:34 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!wave.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!bt!btnet!uunet!in1.uu.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!llyene!news From: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) Subject: Re: YKYBHTL Message-ID: <1995Aug30.155317.12793@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov Reply-To: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99.82 References: <414176$9av@styx.uwa.edu.au> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:49:45 GMT Lines: 19 cmiller@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Charles Miller) wrote: >In acb@indy01.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C Bulhak) writes: >>You know you've been hacking too long when.... >>.... you receive an electronic message from someone asking a yes/no question >>and reply with "y" (or "n"). >... or you're talking to someone and want to know what the time is, and >you catch yourself saying "date?" or you want to know if someone wants to go to lunch, so you send them the message "foodp?" -- #include _ Kevin D Quitt USA 91351-4454 96.37% of all statistics are made up From da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!btnet!uunet!in1.uu.net!van-bc!vanbc.wimsey.com!news.mindlink.net!news Thu Aug 31 11:47:36 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!btnet!uunet!in1.uu.net!van-bc!vanbc.wimsey.com!news.mindlink.net!news From: alan_bailward@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Bailward) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL Date: 31 Aug 1995 02:51:17 GMT Organization: FVREB Lines: 17 Message-ID: <423835$9fm@fountain.mindlink.net> References: <414176$9av@styx.uwa.edu.au> <1995Aug30.155317.12793@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: line150.nwm.mindlink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 You know you've been on the WWW to long (we all have our faults...) when you see a car dealer sticker on the trunk of a car that is well done and interesting and think to yourself "hmmm.... netscape 1.x enhanced" or YKYBHTL when (on a friday) you drive by a sign at a club that says "TGIF" and think "is that a new graphics format? what was wrong with .GIF". Then you suddenly realize that it couldn't be - it is 4 characters long and DOS only allows 3 char extensions.... That was a LONG week! alan #inlcude From da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!pss100.psi.ch!psi.ch!reid Fri Sep 1 14:24:24 1995 Path: da_vinci!cherokee!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!pss100.psi.ch!psi.ch!reid From: reid@psi.ch (Dr Ivan D Reid, µSR Facility, PSI) Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.racing Subject: Re: Needed: Cylinder Head Porter for our shop Date: 1 Sep 1995 12:58 +0200 Organization: Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1SEP199512582015@psi.ch> References: <4257up$rn7@perseus.peganet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: psw086.psi.ch News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 In article <4257up$rn7@perseus.peganet.com>, you@peganet.com (Your Name) writes... >Motorcycle high performance engine builder serving the racing industry >worldwide is seeking experienced cylinder head porter with welding and >machinist talent. This full time position is located in beautiful >southwest Florida. You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... You read the above and think, "Cool. I wonder if he can port some Ducati heads to my Katana." Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH. reid@psi.ch GSX600F, RG250WD. SI=2.66 "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!electron.rutgers.edu!not-for-mail Mon Sep 11 14:58:26 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!electron.rutgers.edu!not-for-mail From: bweiner@electron.rutgers.edu (Ben Weiner) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 9 Sep 1995 18:40:58 -0400 Organization: Rutgers University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <42t55q$gjo@electron.rutgers.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: electron.rutgers.edu ptomblin@canoe.com (Paul Tomblin) writes: >Today's Dilbert cartoon on the Web asks you to mail Scott Adams, and gives his >email address. I actually attempted to highlight the hand lettered email >address (in the cartoon) and paste it into my email program. I always have a ungodly number of windows piled up on my screen and wind up cycling through them, so I can read one window and type into the one beneath it, and so on (twm and point-to-focus rule - click to focus is for singletasking lusers) A couple of times recently I've been typing something while looking at a piece of paper propped up in front of the screen, and caught myself repeatedly hitting the 'L5' key (raise/lower) in a futile attempt to bring my emacs window in front of the piece of paper. -- NO STEP From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!batnet!usenet Mon Sep 11 14:58:33 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!batnet!usenet From: engine@chac.org (Kip Crosby) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTL.... Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 23:46:57 GMT Organization: Wombat Internet Guild Lines: 10 Message-ID: <42vt9b$p12@wombatnet.batnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chac.batnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 An article in last Sunday's Computing section of the Mercury News was headed "Addressing the Core Issue." It was about whether to buy a Mac or a PC. When I saw the headline I thought it was about needing more memory. Most YKYBHTL doesn't make me feel old, but this one did. __________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine@chac.org Computer History Association of California "History is what you make it...." From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!news3.digex.net!usenet Mon Sep 18 16:34:59 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!news3.digex.net!usenet From: jav@cpcug.org (John Varela) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 18 Sep 1995 02:12:39 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Lines: 8 Message-ID: <43ikin$iav@news4.digex.net> References: <439jh6$ok5@wombatnet.batnet.com> Reply-To: jav@cpcug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: cpcug.org X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 I bought a new car about a month ago and yes, I RTFM. But we've been having a drought and when a few raindrops finally fell last week, I didn't know how to turn on the windshield wipers. I found myself wondering how to get the HELP. ________________________________________ ____John Varela jav@cpcug.org_______ From da_vinci!newsat!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!EU.net!uknet!dcl-cs!bath.ac.uk!aber!not-for-mail Mon Sep 18 16:35:06 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!EU.net!uknet!dcl-cs!bath.ac.uk!aber!not-for-mail From: auj@aber.ac.uk (Alun "Da Penguin" Jones) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKITTGHAWTXFW... Date: 18 Sep 1995 20:02:48 +0100 Organization: Prifysgol Cymru (University of Wales) Aberystwyth Lines: 14 Message-ID: <43kfoo$4vm@osfa.aber.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: osfa.aber.ac.uk (You know it's time to go home and watch the X files when) ... after re-installing Linux after a disk crash, realise you need to find a package from the net, run archie, find you haven't got archie installed yet, ftp around the world to get it, compile it, install it and forget what you originally wanted to install. Ho hum, Alun. -- $_='\=*Sxw!jds@j$.jl.dt#Rw%^dcn"K1x(=Bl1nwl!\*1enab^h"F=!J$h%fhcq', tr&J-ZA-Ij-za-i&A-Za-z&&s&\(&logic&&&s&\*&un&g&s&=&al&g&s&\^&it&g&& s&%&st&g&&s&\$&ber&g&s&\#&\n&&s&"& of&g,s&([A-Z])& $1&g&&s&\\u&U&&& s&!&es, &g&s&\\a&A&&s&1&i&g&&print" $_\n";sub liminal{"use perl!";} From da_vinci!newsat!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!batnet!usenet Thu Sep 21 15:25:13 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!batnet!usenet From: engine@chac.org (Kip Crosby) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTL.... Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:20:22 GMT Organization: Wombat Internet Guild Lines: 10 Message-ID: <43s6o4$eoo@wombatnet.batnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chac.batnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 The icon for ping on my system is a dark green ping-pong table and a red paddle on a light green background. I had a twelve-year-old over here the other day who said "Wow, that's a neat icon for ping." "Yes," I retorted dryly, "and it would do just as well for Pong." He turned to me, puzzled, and said "What do you mean?" Oh, sigh.... __________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine@chac.org Computer History Association of California "History is what you make it...." From da_vinci!newsat!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!news.midplains.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu!tssjay Tue Oct 10 11:46:54 1995 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Path: da_vinci!newsat!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!news.midplains.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu!tssjay From: tssjay@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jay Lewis) Subject: YKYBHTLW.... Message-ID: <1995Oct9.154021.16413@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:40:21 GMT Organization: Illinois State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 3 ...you're standing in line at McDonalds for a much needed cup of coffee, and hear the person in front of you order what sounds like a "Mainframe Whopper" and think, "Hey! You can't get that here!" From da_vinci!newsat!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!safir.bpp.msu.edu Thu Oct 12 15:58:27 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!safir.bpp.msu.edu From: niemirab@pilot.msu.edu (Brendan A. Niemira) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW (was Re: Computer media need ethical overhaul (was: Windows Media Bias) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:38 est Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19951010093804.niemirab@safir.bpp.msu.edu> References: <45br7s$b41@redwood.northcoast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: safir.bpp.msu.edu X-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0 YKYBHTLW: You see a post titled "Computer media need ethical overhaul", and wonder what could be unethical about magnetic tape or optical disks. In Article <45br7s$b41@redwood.northcoast.com> "bknotts@northcoFrom: bknotts@northcoast" says: > > I think we all know the answer: it's media bias towards Microsoft. How > >can anyone look at these facts and not see the obvious conclusion? The > >media downplayed OS/2 and then subsequently created all the hoopla over > >Windows95. If the media hadn't pumped up Win95 the way they did, I really > >believe that all the major developers would be programming for OS/2, and > >things would be a LOT different around here... > > I agree; were the computer press not bad-mouthing OS/2's chances in > the marketplace almost constantly, there would be more of an OS/2 app > presence, particularly in retail outlets. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Brendan A. Niemira v3.1: GS d- s+:+ a- c++@ U-- P? L E? Dept. Botany and Plant Path. W-(--) N++(+++) o+ K--- w O? M-- V? Michigan State University PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP t+++ 5 X++>++++ R niemirab@pilot.msu.edu tv b+++ DI D+ G e++++ h--- r+++ y+++ All opinions expressed are entirely my own. From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!newsstand.tc.umn.edu!dialup-1-63.gw.umn.edu!user Thu Oct 12 15:58:29 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!newsstand.tc.umn.edu!dialup-1-63.gw.umn.edu!user From: ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu (Greg "Torgo" Anderson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW.... Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 00:14:37 -0600 Organization: Torgo Enterprises, LTD Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1995Oct9.154021.16413@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-1-63.gw.umn.edu ...you have a dream where you've become SU for a suitcase, and you can only open it with your password. And if you forget your PW, everyone else who needs that suitcase is FUBAR, so you make sure to check again and again that you can open it with your pw. Greg(rough night) -- ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu PGP 2.6 Public key available via finger -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+: a-- C+++$ UVHISX++$ P+++ L>+++ E+$ W++ N++ o+ K w---$ !O M++$ !V-- PS PE !Y+ PGP++ t+ !5-- X++ !R tv+ b++ DI++++ D++ G++ e h(!) r--* y+* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ======http://acm.cs.umn.edu/~torgo====== From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in2.uu.net!news3.digex.net!PHILS Fri Oct 13 15:23:14 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in2.uu.net!news3.digex.net!PHILS From: phils@vm.relay.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW.... Date: 13 Oct 1995 13:01:08 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Lines: 4 Message-ID: <45lnuk$53k@news3.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: phils.relay.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 ..you hear the DJ on the radio start talking about the "Novell committee", and start thinking about standards bodies...until they mention the "Novell Peace Prize" (yes, I know it's Nobel). ..phsiii From da_vinci!newsat!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!usenet Sat Nov 11 14:14:42 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!usenet From: acb@indy09.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C Bulhak) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTL Date: 10 Nov 1995 04:03:28 GMT Organization: Directorate of Counterconspiracy Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: indy09.cs.monash.edu.au You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When: ... after spending an all-nighter working on your thesis in LaTeX, you go home and crash out, and when you wake up, you look at the clock expecting it to be tomorrow. Upon finding it to be still the same day, you think "Damn LaTeX; it always puts the figures on the wrong page." -- acb [It happened to me three days ago] -- Andrew C. Bulhak "Mr. Alphabet says mailto:acb@cs.monash.edu.au Give me all your money. mailto:acb@dev.null.org Just to cover you http://www.zikzak.net/~acb Cover you with honey..." -- The Glove From da_vinci!newsat!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!stallion.jsums.edu!gatech2!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.ingr.com!b17news.b17a.ingr.com!usenet Sat Nov 11 14:14:51 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!engineer.mrg.uswest.com!news.uoregon.edu!stallion.jsums.edu!gatech2!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.ingr.com!b17news.b17a.ingr.com!usenet From: lshebert@ingr.com (Shane Hebert) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:19:23 GMT Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL Lines: 41 Message-ID: <47vn36$hjj@b17news.b17a.ingr.com> References: Reply-To: lshebert@ingr.com NNTP-Posting-Host: aiken.b17a.ingr.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 An alien in the guise of acb@indy09.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C Bulhak) wrote: >| You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When: >| ... after spending an all-nighter working on your thesis in LaTeX, you >| go home and crash out, and when you wake up, you look at the clock >| expecting it to be tomorrow. Upon finding it to be still the same day, >| you think "Damn LaTeX; it always puts the figures on the wrong page." >| -- acb [It happened to me three days ago] >| -- >| Andrew C. Bulhak "Mr. Alphabet says >| mailto:acb@cs.monash.edu.au Give me all your money. >| mailto:acb@dev.null.org Just to cover you >| http://www.zikzak.net/~acb Cover you with honey..." -- The Glove YKYBHTLW... ... after working on a COM (Component Object Model) program all day, I was having problems getting to sleep that night and I recall myself thinking that I could get to sleep easily if I could just find the bed object and get its ISleep interface. (this was about a week ago) -------------------------------------------------------------- Shane Hebert (lshebert@ingr.com) Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GE/CS d s: a- C++ UV++ P+ L E+ W+ N++ K w++++(NT,95) O- PS PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5++ X+ R tv+ b++ DI++ D++ G e+++ h r y+ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Geek Code 3.1 can be found at: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden/.codes/geek3.1.html From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!CTCnet!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!news.ucla.edu!eijkhout Mon Nov 20 16:05:20 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!CTCnet!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!news.ucla.edu!eijkhout From: eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYHBWHTMLTLW ... Date: 19 Nov 1995 08:29:41 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Lines: 8 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: jacobi.math.ucla.edu you think ``href="#bedroom". Click''. -- Victor Eijkhout 405 Hilgard Ave ........................ `Turning on the Weather Channel I was Department of Mathematics, UCLA ............. amused to read the storm warning Los Angeles CA 90024 ..................... banner [...] The last sentence [..] phone: +1 310 825 2173 / 9036 .................. read "Stay away from Windows"' http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/ From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news2.acs.oakland.edu!detroit.freenet.org!detroit.freenet.org!not-for-mail Tue Nov 21 12:38:05 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news2.acs.oakland.edu!detroit.freenet.org!detroit.freenet.org!not-for-mail From: drissman@detroit.freenet.org (Avi Drissman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKWYBHTL Date: 20 Nov 1995 17:04:16 -0500 Organization: The Greater Detroit Free-Net Lines: 16 Message-ID: <48qu10$d01@detroit.freenet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.freenet.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] ... when on a CSC 211 test you write NodePtr temp = new Node; scribbled in pencil, and look back half-expecting the "new" to turn blue, ala syntax coloring. (BTW, is this the right place? Does anyone here still program, or is everyone wrapped up in silly, pointless arguments?) Avi -- Avi Drissman ad406@detroit.freenet.org +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ http://www.science.wayne.edu/~adrissmn/ Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too? From da_vinci!newsat!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!chinook!pyotr Tue Dec 5 16:23:09 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!chinook!pyotr From: pyotr@chinook.halcyon.com (Pyotr Filipivich) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: You Know you've been doing this to long Date: 4 Dec 1995 23:17:26 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <49vvi6$ggs@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chinook.halcyon.com Summary: sum are why Keywords: lock, shlage, tumbler On the genreal subject of letting the computer world influence your real world conversation, some years ago my lovely SO joined me in church, and was trying to follow in the prayerbook. Got totally lost when the preist started a collect without saying where it was found. I saw her distress, leaned over and said "Undocumented subroutine" and she cheered up to know it wasn't her skills that were at fault. Since then, I've been a little more alert about internal documentation, both real world and otherwise. tschus pyotr -- pyotr@halcyon.com Pyotr Filipivich, amongst others. When I was a boy, we had Outcome Based Education, too. We called it "Being held back a year" From da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!newshub.csu.net!A02785@academic.csubak.edu Mon Dec 11 18:07:31 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!uunet!in1.uu.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!newshub.csu.net!A02785@academic.csubak.edu From: a02785@academic.csubak.edu Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW: Date: 10 Dec 1995 10:04:34 GMT Organization: California State University, Bakersfield Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4aebbi$nus@nuke.csu.net> Reply-To: a02785@academic.csubak.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: academic.csubak.edu You know you've been hacking too long when you're amazed that your dog can do something that your computer can't (ie. learn to recognize its name). Mike Driscoll /= = = = = "Keyboard Error. Press F1 to continue" --AMI BIOS = = = = = =\ |OS/2|Prisoner|Pixies|Niven|42.|SPG|Fenris Ulf|655321|BoB|SY|Linux|FFW/CA| \= = = = = = = = = = = A02785@academic.csubak.edu = = = = = = = = = = = =/ From da_vinci!newsat!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news3.digex.net!PHILS Wed Dec 20 14:17:51 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news3.digex.net!PHILS From: phils@vm.relay.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBDTTLW... Date: 20 Dec 1995 13:21:23 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4b92kj$9b3@news3.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: phils.relay.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 You walk in the house, see a Nordstrom's bag on the table, and wonder (a) why your wife has a Netscape shopping bag, and (b) when Netscape started issuing shopping bags, and (c) what they're for. Then you realize that the logo isn't *quite* the same as Netscape's... ..phsiii From da_vinci!newsat!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!news.midplains.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!usc!not-for-mail Thu Dec 21 17:01:58 1995 Path: da_vinci!newsat!csn!gw1.att.com!gw2.att.com!news.midplains.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (Fritz Lowrey) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: ykybhCAtlw Date: 20 Dec 1995 15:44:06 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 14 Sender: jlowrey@skat.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ba746$j52@skat.usc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu You know you've been hacking cellular automata too long when: You're in the shower and look at the all-white shower tiles and wonder, "Hey, this is a steady state. Why hasn't the world been reinitialized?". It gets worse when, later that same morning, you are looking at the vari-colored floor tiles on the floor and begin working out time T+1 in a Conway's Life model. -- "I'll gently raise and softly call, | Fritz Lowrey Goodnight my friends, and joy to all."| Internet: jlowrey@ucs.usc.edu "A Parting Glass", Irish Traditional| From: "Alistair J. R. Young" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,arkane.replies Subject: YKTYBHTLW... Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 16:02:59 GMT ..you see a poster for a film called "Ace Ventura II", and you think to yourself, "Why did they make a film about a desktop publishing package?" Alistair -- Alistair Young - Arkane Systems Software Development & PC Consultancy The opinions above ARE my company's, because I OWN it! [Team OS/2] e-mail: avatar@arkane.demon.co.uk; Phone/Fax: +44 (1833) 638233 (24 hr.) Mail autorespond@arkane.demon.co.uk with subject "pgp" for my public key. "Computer memory and male genitals have one thing in common; everyone says size isn't important, but no-one really believes it." - Platt's Fourteenth Law of Computers From: hpoe@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Howard Poe) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW... Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:53:44 -0700 You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you read the above post about self-modifying code, and wonder how one would go about writing a self-modifying .signature virus detector... -Howard P.S. Nice F-14 in your .signature. That's prolly why I was thinking of .sigs instead of virus signatures. Or maybe signature viruses? =-0 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Howard J. Poe, howardp@cnetech.com, hpoe@nyx.net, KC7DRT(Amateur Radio) | | WWW homepage at http://www.cnetech.com/howardp | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: hpoe@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Howard Poe) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 18 Jan 1996 00:04:13 -0700 You know you've REALLY been hacking too long when... ...you post a follow up to your own YKYBHTLW post... =-) You know you've been cutting and pasting in Linux too long when... ...you're reading a magazine article that includes a source listing, think "Wow, I'll just cut'n'paste it and compile it." and then think "Darn, Linux marks a line at a time instead of a region... maybe I should modify the kernel to fix it so you can mark rectangularly...", ALL BEFORE YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN'T CUT'N'PASTE FROM A MAGAZINE. Boy, I'm having a bad hacking day... *GRIN* -Howard -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Howard J. Poe, howardp@cnetech.com, hpoe@nyx.net, KC7DRT(Amateur Radio) | | WWW homepage at http://www.cnetech.com/howardp | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: joey@kite.resnet.cornell.edu (Joey Hess) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 19 Jan 1996 01:26:12 GMT In article <4dkrdd$p2p@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, Howard Poe wrote: |You know you've REALLY been hacking too long when... ..You're having a hard time getting to sleep, and in a half awake state, start trying to find the sleep command that doesn't seem to be on the path. Happened to me last night.. I think I was associating the pillow with the binary for the sleep command :-) Joey -- "How appropriate, you fight like a cow." -- Monkey Island http://kite.ithaca.ny.us/