Comments on: q & a

By: ed

ed — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:16:42 +0000

@john thanks for details re: the "lost" story ... will relay on to dbrun.

By: dchud

dchud — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:12:03 +0000

Maybe it’s just the ones I’m not at. On the other hand, again, the pastrami at the deli at 3rd and E is pretty good.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:13:25 +0000

@dchud aren’t they all like that?

By: Michael J. Giarlo

Michael J. Giarlo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:09:30 +0000

I sat at my desk and ate cold, three-day-old bratwurst.

Nope, doesn’t sound like I missed much of anything at all…

And I wouldn’t listen to a word Boyko says; he’s got overexposure to that, uh, what do you call it, ah yes, “sun” thing.

By: johnwcowan

johnwcowan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:07:41 +0000

Nothing “lost” about it. It’s Chapter VIII (excluding the first two paragraphs) of “The Pavilion On The Links”, an 1880 short story which forms part of his 1882 collection New Arabian Nights. The 1900 date given in the copy presumably refers to an American edition.

I’ll add to your collection of oddities that Finger, Gopher, and Whois are all basically the same protocol: write one line to the server, then read back an arbitrary amount of text until EOF. You used to be able to talk to Finger servers using URLs of the form gopher://example.com:79/0<username> .

By: dchud

dchud — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:43:52 +0000

Bah, I hate missing lunches like that. On the other hand the hot and sour soup was just right today in chinatown.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:00:52 +0000

I forgot to add that we talked about 2G zip files too. So you can think of yourself as still here in spirit if that eases the pain. Assuming it’s still possible to feel pain in Northern California :-)

By: Andy Boyko

Andy Boyko — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:23:23 +0000

/me sniffles. I miss you brainiac polymath bastards. And Pete’s. Pete’s, a lot.