Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:40:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Parable Message-ID: <199702172210.IAA14296@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217105509.2483A-100000@darkstar> from Charles Mott at "Feb 17, 97 11:05:36 am"
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Charles Mott stands accused of saying: > A physicist is sleeping in his bedroom. He sees a fire burning in one > corner of the room and a bucket of water in another corner. He puts out > the fire and goes back to sleep. > > The mathemetician wakes up and says, "Ah, a solution!" He then goes > back to sleep without doing anything. > > The FreeBSD team wakes up and says, "Let's audit the entire house for > fires, termite damage, worn carpet, and scratches in the walls -- starting > first in the kitchen." They then go back to sleep. The resident paranoid, lurking in the hall with a bad case of the munchies, decides that the combustion of the atmosphere within the house is imminent and tries to fill every cubic millimetre with a hydrocarbon-propelled filling material. (eg. Space Invader) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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