7-Jan-92 21:55:12-GMT,19610;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA19180; Tue, 7 Jan 92 16:38:54 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA09905; Tue, 7 Jan 92 16:38:45 EST Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 16:38:45 EST Message-Id: <9201072138.AA09905@athos.rutgers.edu> Errors-To: owner-ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu From: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #101 ecto, Number 101 Tuesday, 7 January 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* welcomes addendum Congratulations An orthodox Christmas greeting wendy maharry Stuff (tm) Reprint of Grace Hopper obituary I'm alive again ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 1:24:16 EST From: jessica Subject: welcomes Hellos and Welcomes to Brian Gregory and Michael Peskura! mm I tinhk there's someone else to welcome but I can't seem to figure out who! If you're new and I haven't welcomed you yet, I mean you :) introduce yourselves, tell us your birthdays and other assorted personal data (if you so choose of course :) and we'll the info to the best use possible. like wishihng you a *Happy* one when the time comes. in ecto-hair news, i dyed it slightly redder, i'm not sure there's much difference at all really. Joe says he wants me to shave it (or get a crew cut). he points out that we'll never know quite what it would look like unless we try. and cutting it short means i could do more crazy things to it more easily. (having a lot of hair means *two* boxes of hair dye, more time, and more trouble with the ends. but it also means a lot of hair. hmmmmm.) well I dunno, i'm always tempted to cut it really short when i get into a frenzy, and i've been in one for a while now so now that there's a little extra impetus, maybe i'll actually do it. (and *then* if i dyed it blue (which i probably would) i'd _really- be fuzzy blue!!! You see, this paragraph is Happy-related after all.) MMmm i've worked too hard today. I'm off to bed! jessica || jessica || It is this that || Don't try to tell me there's no reason for || || lawrence || brings us || any moment in time, every memory of mine. || || koeppel || together. || Those years are lines of color on my face, || || dembski || --Kate || the past is warpaint. --Happy Rhodes || ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 1:24:54 EST From: jessica Subject: addendum oops, forgot also to say that i did get the third color seperated today. Hopefully I'll get to bring the results to the t-shirt place tomorrow!!! jessica || jessica || It is this that || Don't try to tell me there's no reason for || || lawrence || brings us || any moment in time, every memory of mine. || || koeppel || together. || Those years are lines of color on my face, || || dembski || --Kate || the past is warpaint. --Happy Rhodes || ======================================================================== Subject: Congratulations Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 09:34:05 N From: Klaus Kluge . __ __ _|_|_ /| | | | | Congratulations to everyone on the list as _|_|_ | | | | | digest #100 has just been created. We have | | | |__| |__| been productive, haven't we? :) Very much looking forward to the next couple'o'100's. Klaus PS: WOW!!! 3 weeks to get a parcel from Boston to Chicago. But I'm *so* glad it _did_ turn up, although in the very last minute. _____ Klaus Kluge --- kkluge@Materna.DE --- I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== From: Steve Fagg Subject: An orthodox Christmas greeting Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 11:11:39 BST ... and a Happy christmas to anybody celebrating according to the Orthodox or Koptic calendars. Vickie: a tape for a copy of the second reel of HGP '91 will be in the post to you ASAP. Appologies to anybody who had to suffer bouncing mail from me recently. Now that I'm back from the holidays (mostly spent down in my hometown of Rochester, Kent) I've moved to a new machine for mail reception purposes and things should be back to normal. -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-429531 Ext 2437 ESN-742-2437) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 06:25:56 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu Subject: wendy maharry i've had some time to listen to the new one now. it's called _fountain of youth_. musically, it starts where her debut picked up - arty and textured, with raindrops of piano keys sprinkled about - but with an added twist: she has rocked it up a bit. and by gum, it works too. really enjoyed this on the first try, even with minimal sleep to assist my compehension. i think that this should be available in stores now (i bought a promotional copy at a store in nyc and i've not been in a record store for about three weeks now, so i assume that it must have been officially released now). wihch reminds me: has anyone picked up the new dave stewart/barbara gaskin release? i saw it somewhere during that last shopping spree before the holidays and i didn't have the money. comments on it? +w ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 08:43:19 MST From: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Stuff (tm) Greetings, Warm fuzzy blue welcomes to Valerie Nozick, Brian Gregory, Michael Peskura, and anyone else who has hooked on to the fuzzy blue bandwagon while I wasn't looking! 'What I Did on my Christmas Vacation' seems to be a required Ecto-topic recently. Anyone expecting a tale of grand travel and derring-do on the interstates alerting the law enforcement of four states should go on to the next paragraph. I spent a nice relaxing quiet (a much needed relaxing quiet) vacation, four days with my parents (separately, of course, in this day and age) and two of three siblings and their SO's in the San Francisco Bay area and the rest of the time at home. The vacation was so uneventful that even my flights between Denver and San Francisco were on time! I even obeyed my Ecto-ma and cleaned my room. It's snowing. After seven weeks of staring at dead grass and bare trees (0.01in of precipitation then), we finally are getting a real snowstorm. It started a few hours ago, and right now it is snowing heavily, the wind is howling with visibilities near zero. We may even get to go home early at this pace, as 6-10in are forecast to fall by tomorrow morning. Fort Collins will be pretty again when the storm moves on. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Vickie, I will be sending a second tape for HGP, presuming this storm ends sometime. Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: 7 January 1992 14:27:03 CST From: Subject: Reprint of Grace Hopper obituary At Vickie's party the other day, the oft-expressed sentiment was expressed again, that it was Kate Bush that, directly or indirectly, ultimately brought all of us together. I then pointed out that, in a very real sense, it was the technological development that makes most of our day-to-day discourse possible --namely, the computer--that brought us together; and that it would therefore be especially appropriate for us to note the recent death of the computer pioneer Grace Hopper in these pages. Vickie said at the time that she planned to post an obituary that had already appeared on the net; since she hasn't yet done so at this writing, I figured I'd go ahead and do it. I got the following text from the soc.women newsgroup; it has undoubtedly appeared in other newsgroups and mailing lists as well. Mitch Pravatiner ========================================================================= Newsgroups: soc.women Path: uicvm.uic.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!uunet! iWarp.intel.com|eff!rita From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) Subject: Admiral Grace Hopper Message-ID: <1992Jan2.215808.2306@eff.org> Sender: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1992 21:58:08 GMT Lines: 141 The following, written by Dave Farber (who is one of the founders of this thing we call the Internet), was sent out over one of his mailing lists, which I'm on. Not only was this woman an extraordinary *person*, but she was one of a generation that generally frowned upon women doing what she did. I only wish I didn't first learn about her on the event of her death. From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber) Posted-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 92 16:16:09 EST Subject: With great sadness. Admiral Grace Hopper died yesterday. Admiral Hopper Dies Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (USNR Ret.) died New Year's Day at her home in Arlington, Virginia. She had celebrated her 85th birthday on December 9. At the time of her death she was employed as a senior consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation, and until 18 months ago was actively representing the company at industry forums, making presentations that focused on Government issues and participating in corporate educational programs. In September, President George Bush awarded the National Medal of Technology to Admiral Hopper "for her pioneering accomplishments in the development of computer programming languages that simplified computer technology and opened the door to a significantly larger universe of users." She was the first woman to receive the award as an individual. Admiral Hopper was sometimes called "Amazing Grace" because she recorded successful careers in academia, business and the United States Navy while making history in the computer field. Just as Adm. Hyman Rickover was father of the nuclear navy, Rear Adm. Hopper was the mother of computerized data automation in the naval service. Admiral Hopper joined Digital in 1986, shortly after her retirement as the U.S. Navy's oldest officer on active duty. The ceremony was conducted aboard the USS Constitution, the service's oldest commissioned warship. She had devoted her military career to keeping the Navy on the leading edge of computer technology. Admiral Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray on December 9, 1906 in New York City. She began summering in Wolfeboro, N.H., in 1907 and regarded the town on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee as her second home. After receiving a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale, she began her professional life as a math teacher at Vassar College, her alma mater, where she ultimately became an associate professor. Later, she worked as a top scientist at Sperry Corporation and its predecessors. However, her employer of choice was always the Navy, which she joined in 1943 at the height of World War II. As a lieutenant assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University, Adm. Hopper was thrust into the world of computing as a programmer on the first large scale digital computer, the Mark I. Mustered out of the Navy in 1946, she remained at Harvard as a faculty member in the computation laboratory. She continued to work on Mark II and Mark II Navy computers and maintained her Navy career as an active duty reservist. Although retired from the Navy reserve in 1966 because of age, Adm. Hopper was recalled within a year to full-time active duty and steadily advanced to flag rank. Her assignment to the Naval Data Automation Command in Washington, D.C., permitted her to refine computer language techniques to the Navy's advantage and to keep that service at the cutting edge of computer technology. Adm. Hopper had received honorary degrees from more than 40 colleges and universities, and had been honored by her peers on several occasions. She was recipient of the first Computer Sciences "Man of the Year" award given by the Data Processing Management Association. Her entry in "Who's Who" takes 34 lines to thumbnail her accomplishments, appointments and honors. She is survived by a brother, Dr. Roger F. Murray II of New Hampshire, a sister, Mary Murray Westcote of New Jersey, nieces and nephews. -- Rita Marie Rouvalis rita@eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation | We make out of the quarrel with others, 155 Second Street | rhetoric, but of the quarrel with Cambridge, MA 02141 617-864-0665 | ourselves, poetry. -- Y.B. Yeats ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 05 Jan 92 10:53:00 GMT From: S.A..Ezust@p38.f1.n721.z5.fidonet.org (S.A. Ezust) Subject: I'm alive again Date: Sun Jan 05 10:53:40 1992 GMT+2 First of all, just thought I'd say hi again... I'm only going to be here (Zimbabwe) for a few more days, but for the past 10 days I've been cut off from my incoming e-mail. I think some messages TO me have bounced back, including lots of ecto digests, so I'll have to catch up on them when I am in Boston next week. I got an e-mail from my dad saying that my autographed CD and a letter from Happy have arrived. I can't wait to see them! I got a HappyHat card HERE just last friday, which was nice, as lots of my friends (not to mention myself, of course) who I made tapes of Happy for were very curious to know what she looked like! I also spent the holidays in sunny Johannesburg, where I did a little shopping. Among other things I picked up a tape by Jeniffer Fergeson, purely based on what I read about her on this list. I got her first one, "Hand Around the Heart" which is really amazing. Especially after living in sub-sahara africa for 8 months, I actually understand some of the strange references she's making! She has a very small following even in South Africa. But what was really interesting about Joh'burg was that it's an industrialized city just like any major city in the US, and I forgot what it was like to be walking/driving through one, since I haven't left Zim in over 8 months! 3-lane FREEWAYS, billboards, super-duper shopping centres and 12-screen movie theatres, and glitzy video advertising to name the first things that popped into my head. I know that when I go back to the US I am going to have a reverse-culture shock. But at the moment, I can't think of very much else except my departure to London on Thursday night... However, I thought I'd make a little stuff(tm) post before I signed off for today.. Claudia, Klaus: Glad you enjoyed Boston/New York... I've only spent about 4 hours in NYC myself, but it is quite an amazing sight to someone who has only seen the place in the movies... Sorry I couldn't be there to join y'all... Maybe when you come back in September I'll be there. > From: vickie@chinet.chi.il.us (Vickie Ann Mapes) > Subject: Bits 'o Thoughts > Noirin, yes, she has a *very* *very* *VERY* ****VERY**** beautiful voice!! > I've fallen deeply in love with the album Stor Amhran. I've kept the tape > that Chip lent me for a very long time, and I hate the thought of giving > it back :-) but I will (really Chip, really, one of these days, no kidding). > Describing her voice is useless, except to say that she belongs in the > Academy of Angels (along with Happy, Kate, Liz Frazer, Eleftheria and > Lisa Gerrard). Is the name of the woman Noirin? Where is she from? What record label is she on? > Has anyone else ever been straight, and listened to music that made them > feel high? That happened to me once. There are about 5 LPs that I listened to one day when I was on a substance which I will not mention on-line, but suffice it to say that it is not a substance like acid which does yield flashbacks for the rest of your life. But even so, whenever I listen to these tapes I can remember exactly how I felt when I was high, and so in that sense, I guess I can qualify that as a yes. Two of the 5 LPs were Dead Can Dance's WTROADS and SAI. If I'm in a dark room and hearing them on a really good sound system, I feel like a kitten that's being picked up by the scruff of it's neck, but ever so gently, and being carried around the place. When each song ends, it's like I'm dropped back on the floor again. Edgar Frosse is an interesting guy. I haven't heard much of his solo material but he's one of the members of Tangerine Dream, in case you didn't know... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > From: I Muse Aloud > Subject: Re: Returned & Refreshed > Chuffed ... hmm. Well, you know that feeling when something unexpectedly > nice happens to you? That's what "chuffed" means. It's about the same > as "it made my day", or a warm fuzzy [blue :)]. Also, it describes the > feeling when you put some effort into doing something nice, and it works > out better than you'd ever hoped. It's a nice word, I think - warm and > cosy, rather like the feeling itself ... People use that a lot here too. It sounds so funny though that whenever someone says "I was so chuffed about it!" I have to stifle a giggle... Dunno why, exactly, but it is a cute word. Ezust@p38.f1.n721.z5.fidonet.org University of Zimbabwe, Harare Engineering CAL Project --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My e-mail address from January 4 to February 11: sae@cmpsci.suffolk.edu "UseNet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read." -Joshua Heller -- INTERNET: S.A..Ezust@p38.f1.n721.z5.fidonet.org ======================================================================== To join ecto, please send electronic mail to the following address: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu To have your thoughts included in the next issue, send mail to: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To subscribe to "Ecto", the printed fanzine, send $8 to: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 Ecto is issued 8 times/year, and will include photos and as much material from non-net members as we can get! Donations above the subscription cost are welcomed - all money goes to bringing you better issues! 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