Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Hello, hello? Message-ID: <477@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 11 Feb 90 23:45:37 GMT References: <9002070935.AA02197@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM> <1990Feb9.140251.9631@granite.cr.bull.com> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 14 In article ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) writes: | It's really on the corner of Beacon and Mass Ave. If you're coming across | from Cambridge, it's on Beacon just to the right of Mass Ave, on the far | side relative to the river. It's about the second door down from Mass Ave. From the description, I think it's a place which used to be a SF bookstore, about 30 years ago. Fitting to have that as a meeting place for people who read the books they used to sell, I guess. -- bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX davidsen@sixhub.uucp ...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen "Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!apple!arc!steve From: steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: SF get-together? Summary: Me! Me! Message-ID: <818@arc.UUCP> Date: 12 Feb 90 05:51:46 GMT References: <9002112033.AA07676@ccb.ucsf.EDU> Sender: news@arc.UUCP Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 41 In article <9002112033.AA07676@ccb.ucsf.EDU> robin@CCB.UCSF.EDU (Robin Colgrove) writes: [clinical details omitted] >arranging the first SF Bay Area callahans.realspace.get-together! >How bout sometime in March, somewhere in San Francisco (twixt Stanford and Cal), >and something like the first get-together at somebody's house? >I'll stop there and open the floor for suggestions..." The teddybear and cat tumble in through the west door, falling over one another in their eagerness to reply. Steve finally manages to manifest himself close enough to the bar to acquire two glasses of Saphire on the rocks. "Funny you should mention that!" he says. "Every March, we hold a party at our house in honor of our birthdays and those of our many friends with March birthdays. It's called the 'It's Green!' party, and this year it's the 17th (St. Patrick's Day actually being on a Saturday this year). We can guarantee that there will be at least *some* ba.callahans.people there! "Anyway, it starts at noon on the 17th and ends when everybody leaves, but not before midnight. It's a potluck with, as our fliers invariably say, 'kids, friends, and musical instruments welcome.' I can't guarantee filk music, but it's probable. There *will* be green beer and soft drinks. "The address, as my .sig says, is 343 Leigh Av, San Jose. It's the 4th house from W. San Carlos; green with a white picket fence. There's a bus stop on the corner: 23, 24, and 85. "Oh, and while we're on the subject of get-togethers, I'll be in DC for the ACM Computer Science Conference the week of Feb. 19th -- if anyone else is in the area we could even meet in the (gasp!) bar." Steve and Colleen retire to a corner to sip their gin and listen to the conversation. -- \ Steve Savitzky \ Grand Central Starport \ REAL hackers use an AXE! \ steve@arc.UUCP \ 343 Leigh Avenue \ #include \ arc!steve@apple.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \ h:408-294-6492 w:727-3357 \__________________________________________________________________________ Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!polyslo!jkusters From: jkusters@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John A. Kusters, jr.) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Twas a dark and stormy ni...--ACK!-- Message-ID: <25d656e2.24cf@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 12 Feb 90 06:25:38 GMT Reply-To: jkusters@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John A. Kusters, jr.) Distribution: alt Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo Lines: 36 The front door slowly opens, and a large round face peers in. You would swear that the face would look more normal on a white rabbit, and as the figure steps in, you see why. In fact, the newcomer is a six foot tall rabbit (not counting the ears). Dressed in ceremonial Samurai armor and armed with his sacred Wakizashi and Katana, he would be anachronistic even if he were human. He looks around in wonder. "Sweet glory! I never imagined that this place actually existed! To think, I've been all up and down the west coast looking for it, only to find in my computer!" He walks over to the bar and stares at Mike for a moment. "What can I do for you?" asks the ever-present bar-keep after a bit. "Oh!, Hi! My name is Ataru, and I'm still trying to get over the shock!" "Well, take your time. Can I get you something?" "Well, some carrot juice would be nice." Mike serves Ataru a tall glass of the orange liquid (as several of the more regular patrons quietly wonder where Mike had THAT hidden). The rabbit moves off into the remainder of the bar making his introductions.... Meanwhile, Ataru's more mundane counter-part sits in his Dorm room at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, typing at his computer. When not roaming the net in the guise of a six-foot tall rabbit (not counting the ears!), he leads his life as a Senior Computer Science Major, working towards his degree, wondering what he is still doing in college at the age of 23.75. Also, he finds that life is starting to fit together again now that he has found the tavern of his dreams.... Live Long and Prosper, Callahanites! And when's the next West Coast Gathering? John A. Kusters, jr. aka Ataru of Melnibunny: A well-groomed Hare. -- ___------___ ------------------------------------------------------------ /____________\ "It's not safe out here! It's wonderous--with treasures to (__) || (__) satiate desires both subtle and gross...but it's not for \__<__>__/ _____________the timid." --Q, "Q Who"_______________________ Path: mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-cs!mirror!necntc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Hello, hello? Message-ID: <15922@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 12 Feb 90 01:41:55 GMT References: <9002070935.AA02197@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM> <1990Feb9.140251.9631@granite.cr.bull.com> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 8 In article ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) writes: >The address is something like 503 Beacon (definitely in that range). In the great Robinsonian tradition of having One Deliberate Contradiction, it's 405 according to the White Pages and 495 according to the Yellow. (The latter is the correct one.) Karl Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!xavier!news From: jdh92@campus.swarthmore.edu Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Not goodbye thankfully. Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 19:52:18 GMT Sender: news@xavier.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Hildebaby's Hideaway. Lines: 26 -Message-Text-Follows- Hildebaby comes in looking a trifle cold, but very relieved. He nods a hello to Tom and stops to tell Alex, "So you finally made it. Good to have the local resident anachronism around." He then gets his usual root beer from Mike and quaffs it down. Stepping to the line he begins to speak. "Well, I've been reading the goodbye posts recently, and I've been afraid that maybe I would soon follow these people. Not for any personal reason, but because I faced the prospect of losing my account. My main account is on the computing center machine, but news had only been on the CS department machines. Since I'm not in any CS classes, my account was one of the ones that would get axed if they ran out of space. Well, they were running extremely short on space and it looked like my net days were numbered. "Fortunately a compromise was worked out, and a new net server has been worked out. I'm currently beta-testing news from the CC machine. (Yes, this is a test, if some people could let me know if this actually gets out, I would appreciate it.) Thus I'm here to stay." "To Callahan's. You never know how much you appreciate it until you face the prospect of losing it." -Jeff /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Jeff Hildebrand Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081 JDH92@campus.swarthmore.edu (prefered) or hildebrd@cs.swarthmore.edu Would you trust a man who | "First things first, but not answers to Hildebaby? | necessarily in that order" - The Doctor Path: mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-cs!bucsf!gilly From: gilly@bucsf.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: short tale Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 17:19:59 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: gilly@bucsf.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol) Distribution: alt Organization: Boston University Lines: 25 Gilly wanders into the Place, still trying to recover from a laughing fit. "You've got to hear this story. It's the funniest thing I've heard in a while, and the best thing is, it's true." Someone hands her a drink and everyone waits to hear what's so funny. "It seems a friend of my roommate's mom (BTW, it's Shanin, not Shannon, but that's ok) was driving to work one day. She was a bit late, so she was speeding. As you would expect per Murphy's law, a highway patrolman pulled her over. She rolled down the window, and this big man asks her `Do you know why I pulled you over?' Trying to be funny, she repiles, `You want me to buy tickets to the highway patrolman's ball?' And the guy very indignantly and very, very loudly shouts `Highway patrolmen don't have balls!' And suddenly turns very, very red, goes back to his vehicle, and drives off." The Place explodes with laughter. Gilly finishes her drink and leaves, glad to see the Place looking a bit happier again. -- +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ | Gilly Rosenthol |"Don't dream it, be it" -The Rocky Horror Picture Show | | gilly@bucsb.bu.edu |"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. | | | L'essentiel est invisible aux yeux." -Le Petit Prince | +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ Path: mit-eddie!mit-amt!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!nlp From: nlp@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Nick Pine) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Critical Design Review Message-ID: <198@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> Date: 12 Feb 90 13:33:45 GMT Reply-To: nlp@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Nick Pine) Distribution: alt Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept. Lines: 32 Nick walks in, wearing a suit with no tie, visibly unwinding, and looks around and puts a small stack of ones on the bar: "A round for everyone, Mike." "I'm happy. My friend Eric and I have just described three month's work at a meeting where, traditionally, the customer redefines the job or suggests another approach, making all the work wasted, but this time, the customer just smiled and nodded . . ." "And said, 'I am very happy with what I have seen. In fact, some of this is overkill.' Sweet words." "The meeting was advanced a week because of the customer's reluctance to travel with an impending baby, and we spent three very busy days and nights drawing up schematics and flow charts and descriptions. I was nervous about the presentation: talking to a dozen people is much scarier than singing to a thousand for me. But we were confident when the time came, and decided to switch roles, with Eric describing the hardware and me describing the software." "We beat the throughput spec (a critical concern) by 10:1, and explained that we could go 100 times faster than THAT, but that would take more time. Smiles." "So it's off to play for two weeks, with our checks, and wait for news of the baby and the signing of papers to say we can start building our instrumentation system." *>To competence (as perceived)<* --Nick Path: mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!lll-winken!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!gs6.sp.cs.cmu.edu!spok From: spok@gs6.sp.cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: A harmonic convergence Message-ID: <7955@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 12 Feb 90 22:31:56 GMT References: <7810@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <467@sixhub.UUCP> <1345@jura.tcom.stc.co.uk> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 92 > After a bit, the n-tet in the corner quietens down enough for the >stranger to slip in edgeways. "Can I join in?" he asks. "I play piano, >guitar, violin and recorders, all pretty badly. Mostly I just sing." >He does, in a pleasant and obviously practiced bass-baritone. >He smiles sheepishly. "Anyone for improvising some harmony?" "Now you're talking!" comes a voice from up near the ceiling. A tall young blond-haired man lets go of the cross-beam he was holding and drops to the floor. To the somewhat startled faces that look his way, he explains "I could see and hear better up there, and besides, all the corners were taken. But it is nice to come down; I've been up there for a while now." "I'm all for it; now we just need a base to build on." A large bass off to the side raises his glass, and the newcomer grimaces to himself as he realizes what he just said. He composes himself and continues. "Anybody here heard of the song 'Wimoweh'? Pete Seeger does a simple sing-along harmony arrangement which most any group can pick up. Here, I'll show you, for anyone who doesn't already know it." He points back toward the bass who had raised his glass a moment ago. "Okay, this part is for you, and all the other basses here who want to get into it." He sings something like: "Hey up boys, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh" [notes: G B lowG C C C - - D D D - - D D D - - ] [time: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ] ...and several voices in the bar pick it up the second time around, with gusto. Mike, standing right behind the newcomer, startles the newcomer with his strong entrance. The basses sing the line a few times, and then the newcomer waves at them to stop. "Great!" he says, then turns back to the rest of the bar. "Now, if you don't want to go that low, or you want a simpler part, try this one." He sings: "awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh" [ B B B BB B B BC C C CC C C CB B B BB B B BA A A AA A A ] [ 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ] At least a dozen more voices pick up this part the second time around, with more joining in the third time. At this point, the basses, impatient to hear what the two parts sound like together, kick in with their line. The newcomer smiles, lets them go through a couple more times, and then waves for them to stop. They don't. Nonplussed, he goes over next to a table of people who might be altos and starts singing: "awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh awimoweh" [ D D D DD D D DE E E EE E E ED D D DD D D DD D D DD D D ] [ 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ] which they then pick up and pass to the nearby tables. He gets up from the table, and tries to make himself heard over the singing: "OK, now those are the basic parts; there's plenty more that you can put in, and lots of ways to solo over them, or duet over them, or whatever. Now--" He pauses, as he notices not many people are paying attention to what he's saying, but are just singing, drumming on the table to the basic rhythm, or trying out their instruments on the tune. Eddie looks over his shoulder from his improvising on the G-C-G-D chord pattern, smiles at him, and says "Just sing." So he does, breaking into a wordless (and falsetto) tenor solo over the basic line (if you've heard the "Precious Friend" album, you'd recognize it from there). His voice starts to crack a few lines into it, so he waves at Rhodri James to take over, and he switches down into a lower register, trying to improvise a counterline to the line Rhodri comes up with. The singing continues for a few minutes more, until the support beams start to vibrate noticeably. At this point, Mike breaks in (somehow his voice can still be heard over everyone else) and draws the song to a close with: "a wi- m- o - o- we---- eh!" [ D G D G D G lowG ] [ 3 4 hold hold..... ] ...to the sound of other cadences, clapping hands, glasses crashing into the fireplace, and other noises the newcomer can't identify. The newcomer smiles and takes a seat by the bar. John Ockerbloom -- ========================================================================== ockerbloom@cs.cmu.edu ...!uunet!cs.cmu.edu!ockerbloom ocker@yalecs.bitnet (forwarded) 4209 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15217 Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!sabertooth.cs.wisc.edu!lewandow From: lewandow@sabertooth.cs.wisc.edu (Gary Lewandowski (TA of Doom)) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: WAR Message-ID: <9731@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 12 Feb 90 23:06:50 GMT References: <9060012@hpfcso.HP.COM> <20940037@hplred.HP.COM> <1990Feb10.123201.4094@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Department Lines: 15 In article <1990Feb10.123201.4094@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> adam@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David C. Kaplowitz) writes: >resident time traveler if he can make sence out of the `80s We >started with the hostage crisis, and we ended with the removal of the >berlin wall and obvious breaking down of the " communist " >governments. Hmmm. And we still have the hostages, just not the crisis feeling, I guess. The '80s were pretty depressing in some respects. -- gary lewandow@cs.wisc.edu "A before B except after C, in which case we're going in reverse" Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!orc!bbn!granite!mandel From: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Allusions (was: Re: WAR) Message-ID: <1990Feb12.225031.14364@granite.cr.bull.com> Date: 12 Feb 90 22:50:31 GMT References: <9060012@hpfcso.HP.COM> <20940037@hplred.HP.COM> <1990Feb10.123201.4094@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Reply-To: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc. Lines: 11 In article <1990Feb10.123201.4094@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> adam@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David C. Kaplowitz) writes: >I want to see if I can wallow in some dust. >Traveler in elephants (how's the memory folks?) >adam Oohh, that just Rex me! -- -- Mark Mandel (InterNet: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com) /* My employer is not responsible for anything I say, do, think, or eat. */