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Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?
Bad News
SubGenius Digest #415: Antichain letter
anti-chain letter
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Message-ID: <9004041804.AA26759@juniper>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 14:04:22 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
To: cornell!subgenius%media-lab.media.mit.edu@wrath.cs.cornell.edu
Subject: Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?
>From "Communications of the ACM", Vol 33, No. 4 (latest one):
BRAIN WAVES...A supercomputer model for studying the brain has unexpectedly
produced--on its own--electrical waves like those actually found in the brain
itself. The model, developed by IBM scientist Roger Traub and Columbia
University researchers Richard Miles and Robert K.S. Wong, was designed to
imitate 10,000 cells in the brain's hippocampus, the origin of many epileptic
episodes. The most startling aspect of these waves is that no one understands
precisely how they are generated either by the supercomputer model or by the
brain. However, their existence does provide the scientists with potent
evidence their brain model is accurate.
It lives, it HUNGERS...
--Eric Haines
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Message-ID: <9004041823.AA26773@juniper>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 14:23:57 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
To: cornell!subgenius%media-lab.media.mit.edu@wrath.cs.cornell.edu
Subject: Bad News
Two teen-agers, Kevin and Mark, accompanied Kevin's father from Chicago to
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to watch Kevin's kid brother play football.
While waiting in their motel, the two boys drank beer and watched television
for several hours, then Kevin pulled a pistol from a suitcase. Thinking it was
empty, he joked, "Watch, I'm going to kill myself," but when he pulled the
trigger, the gun fired, shooting him in the forehead.
"What luck," said Kevin's brother when he learned his brother had been
hospitalized in critical condition. "First we lose the football game, and then
this happens."
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The above is from the book _News of the Weird_, by Chuck Shepherd, John J.
Kohut, and Roland Sweet, Plume Books, 1989. Highly recommended. A parting
cautionary tale:
Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after
he tried to pass two counterfeit $16 bills.
--Eric Haines
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Message-ID: <9004050106.AA18743@ucscc.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 18:06:34 -0700
From: The Thing That Wouldn't Go Home <chroma@ucscc.ucsc.edu>
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@Mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
CC: pb1p+@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: SubGenius Digest #415: Antichain letter
Problem is that it is so cute that it is bound to get
redistributed!!!
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Message-ID: <9004050214.AA13098@toccata.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 22:14:01 EDT
From: Rich Rosen <rlr@toccata.rutgers.edu>
To: SubGenius@MC.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: anti-chain letter
That was very funny. I can think of at least five friends of mine who would be
greatly amused by this anti-chain letter. I think I will send copies to them
right away.
[UHDUH...]
Anti-mindcontrolpower at work.
-- "Do what I say, not what I do" shall be the whole of the law. Rich Rosen rlr@toccata.rutgers.edu------------------------------
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