[NBLUG/talk] smart texans

Nancy Harrison vulpia at sonic.net
Sun Mar 30 08:04:00 PST 2003


There's hope! And thanks for the cummings quote which
is one of my favorites of all time! - NHarrison



>here's a neat tidbit:
>last week we traveled to see the parents in texas
>took hwy 287 instead of the interstates
>had to make a stop at a big new rest area
>still under construction
>look inside the new wing and there i see
>a tech center with separate stations for
>weather, email, info, browsing (probably restricted/censored)
>but best of all I look at the huge
>3'x5' projection screen and see words spammed across it repeatedly:
>"/var/run... read only filesystem"
>before i walked on and opined on his video settings
>and saw a tech draped in cat5 and tweaking...
>the rest of the drive was nice as well.
>unix/linux/bsd in texas? works for me!
>=====
>O sweet spontaneous earth how often have
>the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched
>and poked thee, has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty.
>how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees
>squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest concieve gods
>(but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover
>thou answerest them only with spring)  - e. e. cummings - 1923
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-Nancy Harrison
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