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- From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
- Subject: A different boring list type
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.225342.25689@netcom.com>
- Summary: Potentially boring briefcase list
- Organization: Inst. for Epistemological Pathology
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:53:42 GMT
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- Contents of my briefcase, as of 1/12/92 9:00 am, in semi-random order:
-
- On shoulder strap:
-
- Swiss Army Knife "Tinker" model, in cordura pouch.
- Black Leatherman pliers/multi-purpose tool, in cordura pouch (a Xmas
- present.)
-
- Inside:
-
- 4 packages of crack seed. (Will try it again. Stubborn, I am.)
- DayTimer appointment book/address book. Still contains December
- appointment section.
- My old grimoire (black book), the journal portion of which I still write
- in occasionally. (Handy in case I ever need to perform a banishing, for
- instance.)
- List of graduate business courses for UH Manoa, Spring 1993.
- Letter telling me the Operations Research course I picked was cancelled.
-
- 3 Spiral bound notebooks:
- Green - intended to contain design notes for my C compiler/linker
- driver but instead contains notes for talk.bizarre posts;
- Red - contains notes on ideas for a new business startup - mostly empty;
- Light blue - empty except for notes on Ultima VII on the inside cover.
-
- VHS videotape:
- "Lone Star Retractor for Vaginal Surgery, Model 3308.
- Surgical Appl: Vag. Hysterectomy, Cystocele, & Rectocele (12:30 mins)"
-
- Cassette tapes (home recorded):
- The Pogues, 'Red Roses for Me' b/w The Clash 'London Calling', in the
- box for Husker Du 'Warehouse';
- The Proj "Projnostication" b/w "Belligo Man" (old demo tape from my
- brother);
- Empty box for The Fleshtones 'Hexbreaker' b/w The Clash 'Combat Rock'
-
- Design notes for compiler (which should be in green notebook) on random
- sheets of 8.5x11 paper.
- November appointment section for the DayTimer.
- Kleenex. Post-Its. Boarding pass to SFO from November.
- Letter my daughter sent me while I was in Auburn, CA in November.
- Drawing by my daughter.
- Questionnaire on sexual practises from Good Vibrations/Open Enterprises,
- Inc. (Still not filled out.)
- Letter to SubGenius Foundation in Dallas, offering them my Pellagra
- Puffs ad for their next Stark Fist.
- Pencils, pens. A black Mini-MagLite flashlight. Small screwdrivers.
- Glasses case, which I never use. Eyeglass repair kit, ditto.
- Inflatable neck rest/pillow.
- Brass business card case.
- Blank tranparency film for laser printers and copiers.
- Safety check certificate for car which needs to be mailed in before the
- end of the month or my car will be unregistered.
- Scattered non-reimbursable receipts from my last business trip.
- VISA bill for $1573.61 from the same trip. $12.82 past due.
- Notes from testing Atria ClearCase version control system, on scattered
- sheets of 8.5x11 stationery.
- Paper with button designs in Lucida BlackLetter: 'In Memoriam', 'Have A
- Nice Day', 'Have A Nice Wake.'
- Old socks with heel and toe cut out, to wear inside my wrist braces for
- CTS (which I have left at home again.)
- Class notes from graduate Finance class (the most hideously boring class
- I have ever taken); cribsheet for final exam in same; final paper in
- same.
- List of email addresses, office addresses, and phone numbers for
- VeriFone employees world-wide.
- Upgrade offer for Borland Pascal (already purchased.)
- 'Legal Highs', Adam Gottleib (20th Century Alchemist:1973)
- Old checkbook with no checks.
- Out of date auto registration papers from two years ago.
- Graph paper pad with list of many of the things I should be doing, all
- of which are more important than listing the contents of my briefcase.
-
- -- Clifton (have I mentioned procrastination and disorganization?)
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