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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!ukma!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!PLAINS.NODAK.EDU!SACKMAN
  3. Approved-By:  "EDTECH Moderator" <21765EDT@MSU.BITNET>
  4. Message-ID: <EDTECH%92090722300233@OHSTVMA.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
  5. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
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  7. Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:17:22 EDT
  8. Sender:       "EDTECH - Educational Technology" <EDTECH@OHSTVMA.BITNET>
  9. From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
  10. Subject:      GN/GPG/I:6 (32.6 Kbytes) (fwd)
  11. Lines: 68
  12.  
  13. Here's a day brightner for you:
  14.  
  15. ---------- Text of forwarded message ----------
  16. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:25:00 EDT
  17. From: "Anton Ljutic, Montreal" <ANTON@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA>
  18. To: Multiple recipients of list GLOSAS <GLOSAS@mcgill1.bitnet>
  19. Subject: GN/GPG/I:6 (32.6 Kbytes)
  20.  
  21. **********************************************************************
  22.  
  23.  
  24.                           The Electronic Bulletin
  25.                                     of
  26.             GLOSAS/USA and Simulation in the Service of Society
  27.  
  28.                   Email distribution: GLOSAS@vm1.mcgill.ca
  29.  
  30.  
  31. **********************************************************************
  32. ISSN-1188-6307                 Vol.I  No.6                 August 1992
  33. **********************************************************************
  34.  
  35. In this issue:
  36.  
  37. [material deleted]
  38.  
  39.  
  40. **********************************************************************
  41. 4. THE COMPUTER PERSON'S PRAYER
  42.    from John A. Barry's  _Technobabble_, MIT Press, 1991
  43. **********************************************************************
  44.  
  45. Our program, who art in
  46.    Memory,
  47. Hello be thy name.
  48. Thy operating system come,
  49. thy commands be done,
  50. at the Printer as they are
  51.    on the Screen.
  52.  
  53.                         Give us this day our daily
  54.                            data,
  55.                         and forgive us our I/O errors
  56.                            as we forgive those
  57.                         whose logic circuits are
  58.                            faulty.
  59.  
  60. Lead us not into Frustration,
  61. and deliver us from Power
  62.    Surges.
  63. For thyne is the Algorithm,
  64. the Application,
  65. and the Solution,
  66. looping for ever and ever.
  67.  
  68.                         Return.
  69.  
  70.  
  71. **********************************************************************
  72. End of GN/GPG/I:6
  73. **********************************************************************
  74.  
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  76. Gleason Sackman                           BBS:       sackman@sendit.nodak.edu
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