Subject: [Cs-grads] ah, technological progress
Date: December 10, 2006 4:28:42 PM PST
Just for the record, I would like to highlight a uniquely modern dilemma I'm having. I was given access to several machines. I now find I might need physical access to them.
Here's the problem: no one seems to know where they are. In, you know, the real world that some of us occasionally inhabit.
(names withheld to protect the guilty and because I probably will still need their help)
If I had more time, I would love to dwell on the philosophical ramifications of this fact. In the meantime, it's reminding me of this apocryphal story about UNC (my home town):
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-05/sunflash.20010521.3.xml
Nick
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