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Date: Fri Jul 1 23:34:10 1983
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From: evan@mit-ccc
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To: sys-bozos@cogs
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Subject: So I had this dream...
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The earth was going to be destroyed: there were these aliens
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who were going to eradicate all life on earth real soon so they could
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use it for themselves. There were two different castes of these aliens:
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A variety which resembled Dean Bob Randolph, and type which looked like
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Don Saklad. I addition to being about to kill everyone, these aliens had
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the additional bad feature of being obnoxious. The Dean Bob aliens were
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wandering around telling everyone that it was really best for us to be
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extermiated and that, in time, we would come to understand that the earth
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wasn't right for us. The Saklad aliens were bothering everyone with
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stupid questions about how to use the earth and the things on it.
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I was rather upset by the impending demise of EVERYBODY, but I
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discovered that we had been visited year earlier by friendly aliens, who
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had left us with a planetary defense system which would protect us from
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the nasty aliens. Unfortunately, these aliens had been here several
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years ago, and they had wired the defense system into the guts of the
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AI-10! In order to activate the defense system, you had to boot AI and
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log in as RMS, then type ":defend".
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The rest of the dream consisted of wandering around Tech Square
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trying to get someone to give me a Lisp-Machine memory card so that I
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could save all life on earth. No one would give me one. They all had
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important things to do with them. So I went from office to office trying
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to convince someone to help, and every time I rode the elevator, I was
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accosted by a Saklad alien asking some question like: "What is this
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water stuff and what do we do with it? Is it documented?"
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Then the phone rang and I woke up. Thank Heaven...
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---Evan
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