[crackmonkey] [eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de: [Pigdog] forget Hunter S. Thompson]

[Nick Moffitt]

----- Forwarded message from Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> -----


"Who should I thank? My so-called "colleagues," who laught at me
behind my back, all the while becoming famous on _my_ work? My
worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be
limited to downloading bitmaps off the netnews? My parents, who are
still waiting for me to quit "fooling around with computers," go to
med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a
manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled
postal workers?

 My God, no one could blame me -- no one! -- if I went off the edge
and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get throught the day
as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf,
behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad
around 10 am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack'n Zac
helps me get through the meeting without one of my students winding up
with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny,
they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my
impulse to snag my 9 mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few
strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.

 If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading
this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the
last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can
pretty much say exactly what I think.

 Oh, yes, the _acknowledgements_. I think not. I did it. I did it all,
by myself.

Olin Shivers
Cambridge
Septemeber 4, 1994"

>From the "Acknowledgements" section of Scsh Reference Manual for scsh
Release 0.5. 

ciao,
'gene

P.S.	The thing itself? It's an Unix shell that is embedded within
	Scheme. Some lambdoid lifeforms thrive on stuff like that.

----- End forwarded message -----

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