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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: Ramblings about the Convention
Message-ID: <jmonroyC5zCDu.1DB@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 08:46:41 GMT
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                MORE responses to the RAMBELINGS
 
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>> Subject: Re: Ramblings about the Convention
>> Organization: none
>> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 14:38:34 GMT
>>
>> In article <jmonroyC5tv90.791@netcom.com>, jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
>> >
>> >
>> [Deleted.]
>> >
>> >                 But the truth does not evade us, we speak in argots.
>>
>> Sometimes I wonder what your peculiar idioms are...
>>
        I will release the truth, I was thumbing through the
        dictionary for a word, and I ran in to this one.
 
        GREAT word . HUH!!!!
 
        The truth is known.
 
>> >         (Wow, hold on. The popsicle truck just went by!) Each of us pictures
>> >         the "int" in just slightly, a different manner.  Semantically, it is
>> >         just 16-bits signifying a value with a range of about 32k.
>> >         Owww.... I said about?!?  About is correct, because some people are
>> >         still discoursing whether 32k is 32,000 _or_ 32,768. Silly, huh?!?
>> >         So, what is an "int"?  Well, should we now talk about signed or
>> >         unsigned?  Did I mention some people think an "int" should be
>> >         32-bits? Does this make it different if it is public or private?
>> >         What about near or far? (OOPs, Sorry, that's only for MS-DOZ.)
>> >
>> >                 How do we assign a value to this "int"? Do I use 128?
>> >         or 0x80? or  1000 0000 (binary)? or 200 (octal)? and where's
>> >         the 0x0beef?
>>
>> Die qual der Wahl...
>>
        Can you translate for me?
 
>> >                 What's all this leading to? Certainly, I must have some
>> >         information to present?  Yes, Mocha Java is a coffee bean blend
>> >         without chocolate. Mocha is a port, and Java is a country.
>>
>> Man dude, this info I could scarceley do without in comp.unix.bsd,
>> comp.os.386bsd.development, not to mention some of the other groups
>> you posted to.
>>
>> If I wanted to listen to stuff like this, I'd subscribe to alt.talk.*!
>>
        What is the difference between that group and this?
        Maybe I should post to it also?
        Are they working on a version of *nix also?
 
>> [Deleted.]
>>
>> >                 You've gone beyond! There is no need to look at your left
>> >         foot and your right foot when you walk; it's all autonomous now.
>> >         Isn't it?
>>
>> Yeah, and for some of us using all ten fingers is autonomous too...
>>
        Would that be for counting?
 
>> [Deletd.]
>>
>> >                 Wait, I'm starting to diverge again.
>>
>> Please, save us from mass histeria!
>>
        I am glad this line was received with the intent it was written.
 
>> >                 "Hello, World!".
>> >
>> >                 Recanting foundations is our method of debugging.  I don't
>> >         own a CRAY II, or an HP Spectrum Analyzer. My resort is to make sure
>> >         I know what I am doing, to write it down so I know it happened, and
>> >         to be able to read it again after that second pint.
>> >
>> >                 Do they make wheat (weat?) beer down under?
>> >                 And will she let me down under?
>>
>> I personally think you are over-ripe for a psychiatrist.
>>
        Do you have proof?
        I might be able to file for medic-aid.
 
>> >                 Dinner time.  A burrito sounds good.MMMMMMMMM.
>>
>> If you have been here as long as I have... PIIIIZZZZAAAAA!!!! ;)
>>
        No really good pizza place open round here?
        Can you send me a good pizza?
 
>> [Deleted.]
>>
>> >                 Oh yeah, survival! Survival may call to mind some notion
>> >         of an ending (like we are hoping for this talk), but hundreds of
>> >         thousands of years have passed, with us humans intending to influence
>> >         future generations only to be confounded by fire, quake, water,
>> >         or a UFO landing.
>>
>> Ending?  He says ending!
>>
        I think you are following along very well.
 
>> [Deleted.]
>>
>> >                 To make it short, we need convention, a means to reference
>> >         each other's symbolism in a concise manner.  Even shorter,
>> >         let's start some header files.
>>
>> Short?  You aint short winded in a long shot.
>>
        Thank you, I don't often get compliments of this nature.
 
>> >         (WOW, multiple head!)
>>
>> You obviously need it.
>>
        Any canidates?
 
>> >         (I could be happy with her for 10 minutes, OK, 20... Scratch that-
>> >          she just talked.)
>>
>> I don't think you could keep HER interested for even 2.
>>
        You didn't see her... I did.
 
>> [Deleted.]
>>
>> >                 I propose we use comp.periphs for our discussions _or_
>> >         cross post & label all articles: [QIC-40/80].
>>
>> I'd rather you use alt.back.of.the.moon!  Or how about alt.ego.jmonroy?
>>
        I don't think that you need to go to that much trouble
        on my account.
 
>> >                 While (!convention)
>> >                         convention = articles   (
>> >                            ::  [deleted] ::
>>
>> How about:
>>
>>     while( author(article) == jmonroy ){
>>         flame(article);
>>         delete(article);
>>     }
>>
        Hey!... you might want to copyright that early?
        Could make you a million.
 
        BTW, I have to congratulate you.... you are the first person
        on the net that has been able to read my psuedo-code.
 
>> >                 IS THIS ALL CLEAR?
>>
>> Yep, all clear.  However, you mind if I ask you a question or two?
>>
        Not at all... especially if you have gone to this much
        trouble on my account.
 
>> 1.)  What do you get off on?  I have read (for better or worse) most of
>>      your posts in *bsd* groups, and have found a rather tiring attitude
>>      in all of them.  I think whoever named you did it most apropriately.
>>
        Yes, some people do post some rather mundane articles.
        But this is America, And I think they are entitled to
        their options.
 
>> 2.)  I can't believe that you have an ego as large as it looks.  Please
>>      set me straight.  Tell me that you have a non-american background,
>>      or something, anything, to make me understand your views.
>>
        What would you like to know?
 
>> 3.)  Why do you insist on posting totally unrelevant (like this post)
>>      things to the newsgroups?  I don't mind the odd diversion of topic,
>>      but please keep it short.  (100+ lines is not short.  Some people
>>      PAY for news.)
>>
        Hmmm.... and I thought you followed along quite well.
 
        Did I lose you somewhere along the line?
 
>> Sorry dude.  Some of the things you say are ok.
>>
        Well, thank you.
 
>> However, unless your aditude improves a bit,
>> I am gonna stick you in my kill file.
>>
        AHHHHH.... I will die from this surely..,,, please don't
 
>> Be a pitty, since that file is right now still empty.  Please don't make
>> me make you be the first to go in there.
>>
        I will always consider it a rare privilage to go first.
 
>> Hoping that things will improve with your mind,
>>
        *I* certainly hope so.
 
 
        My final word.:.... I did say "Ramblings about".
 
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>> From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
>> Subject: Re: Ramblings about the Convention
>> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 19:03:30 GMT
>> Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
>>
>>
>> <lots of philosophical stuff deleted>
>>
>> What is happening here?
>>
        Tell ME.
 
>> Who is this Jesus Jr. who has been posting all these ramblings about the
>> strangest subjects lately?
>>
        Has someone been posting stuff behind my back?
 
>> Is he by any means related to the more famous Jesus who rambled about
>> some 2000 years ago?
>>
        Hmm... WOW!!!!... another compliment!
 
        I must write more in this style in the future.
 
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Jesus Monroy Jr                                          jmonroy@netcom.com
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