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Date: Tue, 26 May 87 16:11:42 EDT
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From: Jonathan A Rees <JAR at AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
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To: KLOTZ at AI.AI.MIT.EDU
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Re: [Olin.Shivers: Life at CMU]
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Date: Fri, 22 May 87 23:46:38 EDT
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From: Olin.Shivers at H.CS.CMU.EDU
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To: jar at ai.ai.mit.edu, mhs at ht.ai.mit.edu
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Re: Life at CMU
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22-May-87 19:24 Olin.Shivers@h Presentation announcement
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It's common knowledge that whenever you get two or more CS grad students
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together, the conversation will inevitably drift to the same topic:
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automatic weapons. Lately, we've noticed that whenever we attend a CS party,
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picnic, or bullsession, we always hear the same questions and discussions,
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usually from the younger grad students:
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"When I switched from guncotton to standard ball powder on my .223 loads,
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the gas ports on my M16 would clog like you wouldn't believe. Steer clear
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of that stuff."
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"You haven't cleared an ejection port jam until you've cleared one in
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the Hill district at 4:00 AM on a Saturday morning."
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"I want to mount an M60 in front of the sun roof of my Tercel, but
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the mounting bracket wasn't drilled for import cars. How did Josh
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Bloch do his?"
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"What exactly are those special 'conference rounds' that Newell hand loads
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before AAAI every year?"
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"Some of my friends at the MIT AI Lab don't like M203's because the
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grenade launcher adds too much weight, but I wouldn't have gotten
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out of IJCAI-85 in one piece if it hadn't been for those 40mm flechette
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rounds. What do you think?"
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"Do you have to be a god-damned tenured professor to get teflon rounds
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at this place?"
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"Does the 'reasonable person principle' cover hosing down a member
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of the Soar project after he's used the phrase 'cognitively plausible'
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for the fifteenth time in a 20 minute conference talk?"
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"Where *did* Prof. Vrsalovic get that Kalashnikov AK-47?"
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"I used to use Dri-Slide to lube my M16. How come my advisor says
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Dri-Slide is for momma's boys and Stanford profs?"
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"Does the way Jon Webb keeps flicking the safety of his Mac-10 on
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and off at thesis defenses make you nervous, too?"
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In short, there is a lot of concern in this department for the proper care,
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handling and etiquette of automatic weapons. So as a service to the
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department, we are starting a two week daily series on "The Care and Handling
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of Your M16A1." Every day for the next two weeks, we will post on the wall
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outside our office the day's helpful hint on care and maintenance of that good
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old departmental standby: the M16A1. Our thanks to the US Army, whose
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training manuals we have shamelessly cribbed for material.
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We would like to encourage other knowledgeable members of the CS community to
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share their expertise in a similar fashion. There is a real need for this
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kind of dialogue in the department. The new students come in here every fall,
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and are totally unequipped to handle the realities of graduate student life at
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CMU. Computability theory and lexical scoping are fine things to know about,
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but they just don't cut the mustard when somebody from the Psych department
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opens up on you with an Ingram set to full auto.
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-the friendly automatic weapons enthusiasts of SkyCave1,
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Olin, Derek, and Allan
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