From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Mon Nov 29 09:14:09 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id JAA20036; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:03:11 +1300 Received: from mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (mailhost.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.1.4]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id JAA20033 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:03:08 +1300 Received: from sci4 (lbr-122-42.lbrsc.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.122.42]) by mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (8.9.2/8.9.2/8.9.2-ua) with SMTP id IAA19246 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:51:47 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199911281951.IAA19246@mailhost.auckland.ac.nz> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:50:59 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Fw: Good And Evil. X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) From: "Michael Parkinson" To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to -request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: m.parkinson@auckland.ac.nz, dq@dq.sf.org.nz > > I beg to remain your obedient servant, > > Michael > > > Now this is the type of servant I like to employ, however to stay employed > I'm going to have to require you to pay for the privelage. I'll require 30% > a week of the salary I'm not going to pay you. > Of course, as any decent Firgaro will tell you, a good sense of Irony is a necessary survival trait in a servant; although opportunistic discretion is perhaps safer > Ghengis > Who knows people follow nobles out of sheer admiration Yes that indeed -- combined with having one's grooms horsewhip the blighters whenever necessary. Michael Parkinson Mathematics & Statistics Subject Librarian Science Library, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, AUCKLAND, N.Z. Email: m.parkinson@auckland.ac.nz Phone: (09) 3737 599 x 5858 Fax: (09) 3082 304 -------------------------------------------------------------- This is true for all of science. Successes were largely due to forgetting completely about what one wanted ... in refusing to investigate things which profit, and relying solely on guidance by criteria of intellectual elegance; it was by following this rule that one actually got ahead in the long run, much better than any strictly utilitarian course would have permitted. -- von Neumann (1954) in "The Neumann Compendium" edited by Brody & Vamos (1995) ======================================================================== -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers -- From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Mon Nov 29 20:46:57 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id UAA21424; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:22:34 +1300 Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (tk2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id UAA21420; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:22:31 +1300 Received: from paul (p133-tnt6.akl.ihug.co.nz [216.100.154.133]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id UAA06603; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:10:54 +1300 Message-ID: <000b01bf3a39$39c93de0$6564640a@paul> Subject: Recruiting.. Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:12:05 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 From: "Paul Schmidt" To: dq-announce@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq-announce@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to -request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: "Paul Schmidt" , dq@dq.sf.org.nz A gnome of unremarkable appearance appears at the gate of the Guild. "I be here to 'ire adventures", he said to the doorward. "This be me currency." Reaching in to a pack, he fishes around till he comes out with an emerald. He hands it to the guildsman The gem is flawlessly green, the size of an apple. "One each fer ya members," the gnome says, "if ye folks 'elp with me problem. O' course I'll be needing a party leader, and some mind or illusion dickery doo and an Urf mage of good repute." -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers -- From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Mon Nov 29 21:07:40 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id UAA21428; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:22:37 +1300 Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (tk2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id UAA21420; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:22:31 +1300 Received: from paul (p133-tnt6.akl.ihug.co.nz [216.100.154.133]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id UAA06603; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:10:54 +1300 Message-ID: <000b01bf3a39$39c93de0$6564640a@paul> Subject: Recruiting.. Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:12:05 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 From: "Paul Schmidt" To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to -request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: "Paul Schmidt" , dq@dq.sf.org.nz A gnome of unremarkable appearance appears at the gate of the Guild. "I be here to 'ire adventures", he said to the doorward. "This be me currency." Reaching in to a pack, he fishes around till he comes out with an emerald. He hands it to the guildsman The gem is flawlessly green, the size of an apple. "One each fer ya members," the gnome says, "if ye folks 'elp with me problem. O' course I'll be needing a party leader, and some mind or illusion dickery doo and an Urf mage of good repute." -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers --