Article 88244 of alt.folklore.urban:
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: c_mcdon@pavo.concordia.ca (kate)
Subject: Re: Life rejects Art
Sender: c_mcdon@pavo.concordia.ca (MCDONNELL, CATHERINE)
Organization: Concordia University
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 14:57:00 GMT

Was someone looking for drieux? Just found on talk.bizarre:
> 
>Ok Kampfr's,
> 
>It's RECOVERY TIME!!!!!!
> 
>I had some Pen&Ink work to do before returning to talk to my 
>favorite cray and when I logged into it, they had taken it
>away for dedicated time to work on the Tape Silo Subsystem,
>and I found Myself CLUTCHING my Whiskey Bottle in Sheer
>Desperation, so I decided to take a small break, and watch a
>movie with my housemates. They were about 72.365% through 2010
>when I came down. { note that is merely an estimate. } So one
>Housemate says that you should see 2001 first and then see 2010
>and the other how she did not understand the ending to the first one.
> 
>This of course lead to a small break in which HisLordFascistOprressor
>and I discussed Queue Theory, and that Alas and Allack I had come to
>the Analysis that one of the Key Problems in the 'delay to start' of
>any given job was that we could ONLY Push <N> Jobs through in any
>one given 24hr time frame and the EndUser Community wants to submit
><N + M> jobs and then complain about throughput. Needless to say this
>lead to the discussion about how all we would need to do was slow the
>Planets Rotation Rate, and hence extend the number of Hours in a Day,
>and I pointed out that we would ALSO need to shift the Orbit out a bit
>so that we could pad on a few Days, and with proper positioning drop this
>whole Leap Second Crap. Where Upon Dimble Brain Wandered off irrationally
>babbling at me about fixing the angle of attack of the planet so as to 
>make it a nice clean circular orbit. I of course pointed out that you
>would need to reposition the Sun, and PostNewtonianIsm Blurts out the
>Great EinSteinian thought experiment about the warp in the space time
>continuum, and I say "Squat All"  and point out that the simple mechanics
>of the problem still avoids the distortion to the space time continuum
>caused by the fact that the Bloody Marbel is MOVING in the Fabric and
>his Little PeaBrainPlanet has to adjust to the warp and woof thereof.
> 
>He of Course Decided to Become a COMPLETE BELIGERENT and went up stairs
>and starts playing with his MOSAIC Audible Interface Stuff and has the
>Computer at the NSCC talking away at him so loud I can Hardly hear HAL
>explaining that it was probably due to human error!!!!!
> 
> 
> 
>ciao
>drieux
> 
>ps: somewhere out there Art is Imitating Life, but I notice
>that I can login to reality again and start to work on fixing human error.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>-- 
>Modern Problems:
>	From Now on there will be no "PC Police"
>	They will be Called DifferentlyBigotedIdeologyMaintenanceProviders
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Kate McDonnell, infographiste             c_mcdon@pavo.concordia.ca
"A female is, shortly put, a she, or, put more at length, a woman-
or-girl-or-cow-or-hen-or-the-like." - Fowler's English Usage