"I think it's cool, but I don't know what it does" - Noah Green (njg)
"If you live in your office, it's like working at home" - jsw
"Before the Web, we used to have fun with regular expressions"- me
"Don't worry, it's not a debug question" - jbb
"There's nothing like a good core dump in the morning" - me
"I wish Andy were here, I'd drink less" - ???
"John? John? I'm sorry, I'm slightly over stimulated." - sab
"I have destroyed the imperial typewriter" - sjt
"It looks complicated... and useless" - Meg, twm's roommate looking at my work
"The wetware is weak... but the software is strong, and the hardware is stronger" - Noah Green (njg)
"But you're just a guy!" - sab to me about all the hits my page gets
"I didn't know you liked Thai food, I thought you were totally white bread" - twm to scd
"I had this weird sense the other day that this [the graphics lab] was home" - art031
"Does anyone know any words in Aztec?" - sjt (email him if you can help)
"This project has the best bugs" - Oneshin on FotoEdit
"Don't pick on the special kid" - jsw about Adam Doppelt (amd) fighting Noah Green (njg)
(pointing to the graphics lab) That place, strong is it with the dark side of the Force. In you must go. - rumor
"I've learned to program in broad strokes" - Noah Green (njg)
"If I had to make a stab in the dark, I'd say that was a great testament to my ass" - esg
"I code to better music than this" - me, at a party
"I had a dream that we had to reorient Providence to a new set of axes" - Noah Green (njg)
"The only thing I can keep in my head any more is VRML" - twm
"Coolness is not a zero sum game, Loring" - twm
"What do you think, food grows on trees?" - jeb
"This is not a joke. The lab is not a toy. It is a professional research environment. Please treat it as such." - Brook Conner (dbc) in brown.cs.graphics, article 747
"To the atrium!" -
jsw
"Two men enter, one man leaves" -
sab
"It was conspicuously hidden " - sph
"Why do people call and hang up after one ring?" - Ken Drew (ked)
"It's an obscene phone call tease" - scd
"We should have sat at the multi-dimensional table so we could all sit next to each other" - sjt
"Sam, are your nipples always hard?" - sab
"Hey Noah --- Buttafuoco!" - Ken Drew (ked)
"I'm not drunk, just over educated" - overheard at jeb's 21st birthday party
"This is the most useless thing I've ever done beside programming" - Noah Green (njg) on a skate board (sort of)
"We can stand in front of Store 24 asking people for money" -
Noah Green (njg)
"Yeah, and when we get enough money we can buy another Onyx" -
Brett Levine (bl)
People in the graphics group have taken up skate boarding in a last-ditch
attempt to prove they are not geeks.
It's working.
Come up and watch us.
-rumor
"The thing to do is not to be goal oriented" - sjt on romance
"If I had a nickel for every game played in this room" -Rubin
"Was Noah talking to me? I was reading some mail" - Adam Doppelt (amd)
"Can't talk. Coding." - everyone
"That looks like a good breast modeler" - rtm
"When you're done... fax this for me" - avd
"Cut the shit, Loring. You're not funny, amusing, or even clever." - rumor
"Are you accessible by email?" - question directed at avd
"Could somebody come over here and take the phone off my shoulder and hang it up for me?" - Ken Lao (kjl) while playing Duke Nuke 'Em
"What's the point if there is no killing?" - Ken Lao (kjl), about movies
"The frame rate is dropping! Pull UP! PUUUULLLLLLLL UUUUPPPPP!!!" - Ken Lao (kjl)
"Can you sue someone just for being ridiculous?" - sjt
"When you're married you can still do cool stuff, but once you have a kid it's all over" - mo
"If you wouldn't put it down your shirt, don't put it on the keyboard" - scd
"I wasn't sleeping, I was just resting my eyes while I was compiling" - sph
"It just goes to the screen and is eaten by the eyes" - Rubin
"They have to realize that there is no such thing as a superior race. . . Except for vulcans." - sph
"I think I missed my calling as a housewife" - Adam Doppelt (amd) as he went to clean up after the GIICS ice cream fest
"Hi, Ken. Time for your next meal." - ak (Adam Krawitz)
"Ducks are cool. Computers aren't." - bcz
"Actually, I have to urinate, so you can come with me" - sjt on the phone
"My daughter keeps changing... And I don't mean her diaper, either" - lem
I'm not kidding, this is a city of terminal wierdos.
Just the way I like it.
sjt about San Francisco
"I have no pity for you, you should die a horrible, miserable death....
in Duke Nuke'em"
-lsh to a Duke Nuke'em player complaining about key
bindings in Duke Nuke'em
You want polygons? I'll give you some polygons mister!! -bloss
As long as your drivel and blahblah was good, it's a good message. -lsh
utah, we have a problem.
we got 0 frame rate here.
-lem
Let's do it like the mossad.
-jacobs, in regard to Israeli
Army training methods (plan for one situation for a week, and then have the
situation changed for you the night before and the day of the project)
Dan, by the way, I specifically mentioned your name to the government. -jeb to dg about the site visit
I am not a circus monkey. -sph
And remember these seven words of advice...
"NEVER EVER EVER PRESS THE RED BUTTON!!!"
-kmd in her goodbye post to brown.cs.graphics
Comment? ... Never read comments. -bcz, looking over code
Another customer, Sam Trychin '96, drank so much that when he was forced to
cut back, he had bad headaches. "Coffee withdrawal is not as bad as heroin
withdrawal, but it is bad," he said.
-Good Clean Fun, 9/20/96
"If we could have real trees, it would be amazing!"
-dg
"You could always go outside"
-lsh
"You can't slow down unless you're going fast" - Adam Doppelt (amd)
"school cafeterias were (are) unheard of in Germany (and that is a good
thing, given what I am hearing in the US...)"
-mmw
"You got me so stressed out I had diarrhea and constipation simultaneously" -sjt
"If Andy says 'it works or you die', make sure you're holding his knife" -dlg, showing knife
"In the end, isn't this just the same problem as the nose coming into being?" -lem
"I have to touch the Cisco router of your soul!" -sjt
"I should.... shower!" -dmb
"Do you want to be like me? No, that would be stupid!
Do I want to be like me? No, that would be stupid!"
-dlg
"'I wear a suit, hence I do good graphics work.'"
-jsw in reference to lsh dressing up for EAB
meeting
"Oh my god, Loring, what happened to you?" -scd, about the same thing
"Six polygons per second"
"If my mom was doing it by hand, she'd probably go slower than you"
-lem
"You've never played wack a mole?" -dg
"Are you the real time compiler?" - Jeff Potter
From scene.H in the npr project:
revision 1.36 date: 1996/12/17 11:34:12; author: sjt; state: Exp; lines: +2 -0 I think this was only incidentally changed... no major changes in this rev. Maybe hit return at top of file before saving? Don't know why it wants a message log when I turn this in. Ignore me. (I'm also very tired...) Has this been going on long enough? Enough! Time to log out and find Prisna! Now there's a mission for you.... Hmm... think I'll start keeping my diary in old RCS rev headers.. :)
"I learned it from watching you, Dan" -mcc
"They're gross, they smell like urine" -Oneshin about chicken wings
"I think the quote list should be subject to peer review" -jeb
"The real world is irrelevant. Only the fourth floor matters." -jpa
from http://www.feedmag.com/97.02pesce/97.02pesce.html:
"The real problem is content, will always be content," says Andries van Dam,
a computer science pioneer at Brown University. "What are we going to say to
each other which is meaningful? Are we going to be reduced to the same
banalities that we exchange at cocktail parties? We can do wonderfully well
on the tech side, but the content is still a challenge."
"doesn't sound like andy though."
-dej
"quotes? come on, people never say that."
- sab
"Use your object model for good, not eviel" -sjt, in Time Bandits little English boy denoument voice
"I should just put on my coding gloves and kick some ass" -jks
"Are you going straight to drinking or are you coming back to the lab?" - jsp
"No one better pick on *my* Tom Meyer or I might have to fly out there for some real face to face" -sjt
"You have too many polygons and they're the wrong size" -jmp
"What's this? If lsh is not happy, the lab's not happy. Put *that* in your quote page." -jpa
"We don't need faster machines, we just need to make the algorithms better" -lem
"Don't eat the flower...."
-dmb
"Why did you feed it to me?"
-dlg
"Hey Dan, ever thought about tying your shoes?"- Adam Doppelt (amd)
"thank goodness for 'zwrite' otherwise we'd be speaking to one another.." -asf in a zwrite message to me
"I just subscribe to that newsgroup for the articles" -mo
From the acknowledgements in
lem's SIGGRAPH '97 paper:
"We thank ...
Loring Holden for lending Dan a shell"
"I AM THE GREAT ANDIHOLIO! YOU WILL GIVE ME VTC FOR MY BUNGHOLE!" -anonymous
"Thanks Loring - you're a life saver. Or maybe a tootsie roll." - Adam Doppelt (amd)
"What's wrong with working over 100 hours a week?" - avd
"Hmmm, should I waste my whole night with Loring?" - jsw
"Java is not a subset of 252" - jsw
"This coke can tab is driving me up a fucking tree." -jks
"I got clothes that would put *Sam* to shame" -dlg about his post-SIGGRAPH shopping for wierd cloths in LA experience
"Scud's a Lame-r.
No, it's a perfectly lovely but perfectly well-clothed picture."
-- sjt
"I want to stay here, but I don't want to be your bitch" - anonymous
"You have to make sure your conversations don't core dump" - scd
"I feel so unclean
- lsh
"make clean"
- scd
asf: "Why don't you just use tcsh?"
bcz:
"I don't want to be one of those people ... who progress."
"I'm not selfish, I'm just lazy as shit." -bcz
"I type 'A space' incredibly fast." -bcz
"Andy is just more of a man than the other professors." -anonymous
"This is a list I can traverse through any time I want" -srk
"Late at night, me and the kids like to CSG" -jpa, in hick voice
"Quake on the cave. D00d, the NSF rox" -dlg
"GET TO ZEE CHOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" -Ken Lao (kjl) as Arnold
Remember how I used to do Schwarzeneggar impersonations all the time? It's
all Eric Cartman now, baby
-Ken Lao (kjl)
"I want to be one of those brilliant punk kids in my class. I have punk envy." - anonymous
"I am on a hunger strike until my code works." -mrl in response to my zwrite asking if people wanted to get food
"Dan, did you cut your forehead shaving?" -jsw
"Being called out for retarded commenting in a cs department is like someone saying you have a small penis." -srk
"Somedays I have fantasies that there's a parallel universe where girls think computers are the bomb-chilly..." -srk
"I refuse to become some animal sticking my ass up in the air hoping that some female will want to mate with me. My solution. Satisfy yourself." -jjl
"And if you look at yours, off in the distance, you can see Satan." -mml about my ray tracer
"I think his [raytracer] is wrong"
"Know what I think you should do?"
"What?"
"Go *HOME*."
-lsh and
tbd
"I don't know, it now looks like my balls are on crack" -tbd
"That's like 'if 0'" -lem
"If the pixels were pixel size..." -ronen
"Who cares?"
"It's a bug. We should get a t-shirt or something."
-lsh and asf
"I miss Ronen's calming, productive influence"
-lsh
"There are drugs that can help achieve the same effect.... Jeff?"
-dlg
"sigh ... I cannot share a room with you Loring, no matter how good a coder you are.' -bcz
"I don't think netscape accepts the <grin> tag" -mcc
"I think the shelling stopped. It's safe to go out in the street." -dlg, 1/1/98, 12:26 am
"Can you make the lines three times as thick? .... Can you write this code? I feel confident." -jfh to tor
"Is there any chance we can switch the direction of Z in the next edition [of the book]?" -asf
"I'm going to read Design Patterns to [the computer]" -cmw
"It's amazing - it's a sentence but it doesn't mean anything" -asf
"Can you give me names of 123 hot shots I can talk to about working in the
group?"
-lsh
"[names deleted]... Oh and there was this guy names Loring Holden. Make sure he doesn't join the group. He has destructive influence and will be bad for group morale. =)"
-sph
"Westerners have big mouths" (to pronounce the words) -dbg
"I think you're a wonderful person but you snore like a motherfucker" -bcz to lsh
"Do you want to see video of me teaching 'flesh' to people?" -bcz
"I was reading about Stephen Hawking today and realized: 'Hey! I don't have it so bad!'" -lem
"How do you get a computer off? I don't understand" -mml
"Oh my gosh. Mountain Dew is amazing!" -cmw, 1:34 am, 4/21/98
"You're following the path of suffering" -Oneshin to cmw about weird Motif hacks
"I will educate you forever. Start[ing] now." -dbg to dsb about dsb
"Actually, I was reading your quotes postings. The graphics group comments in particular. Are all the folks you work with really fucked in the head or what?"
"The way Jim Carey walks - that is the perfect way" -dbg
"Dan Gould represents knowledge... or at least he is a pointer to knowledge" -pnk
"I'd be especially surprised if they were aware of Godzilla" -mml about the crickets in the gecko cage
"Is the CAVE really going to be worth all this effort?"
The CAVE people, interrupted during a hectic work session, simultaneously: "No. Go away."
"Andy makes me cry. That's why I could never work for graphics. I'm not tough enough." -mcc
"We're talking about zener diodes"
-dlg
"Actually, we're talking about building our own pinch glove. We don't care
about the glove, we care about the pinch"
-jjl
"You are the documentation, Loring" -tc about jot documentation
"When I take over the graphics lab, there won't be any REFptr's" -tc
"today is teach your family the net day" -zwrite by scd after he and asf got calls from family with net questions on the same day
"Is this some kind of weenie validation?" -gss
"That's me. I'm zero" -dlg
"So you take the faces, and you sort them by their A-ness" -lem
"If all your hands are gone, you obviously need an SGI" -dlg
"It's the arena in which threads are fighting for the gauntlet of execution" -jon
"s isn't for save, it is for segmentation fault" -ffl
"No, asshole, I'm a world renowned expert on silhouettes" -lem, or at least that's what he remembers saying
"bcz doesn't use rcm or read email, so his schedule defaults to completely open. ;)" -asf
"When I use color spaces I can never get brown, but when I mix colors I can only get brown" -bcz
"I want to see your tongue" -scd to dbg
is that your first pub?
first pub is like ... losing your virginity...
i remember my first pub... (walks out gazing)
-jjl to cmw
mjm to mml: you should use mpeg
compression, it would make it smaller and better.
mml to mjm:
like joe laviola!
WORLD::message("Could not lasso object. You suck.");
-jmc?
// get that boooooty perlin nose, bebbe
-jdn
"Spike, if professors were meant to program, god would have given them fingers" -dlg
"I much rather have background-double-double-double than a decimated bunny" -jdn
"[keyboard key] p is for piss-on-tmod" -jdn
"It'll either be the cover image or rejected" -dlg
"Even if you have a reconstruction of god himself, it isn't going in" -dlg
"[I want] a jot O'Reilly book with a duck on the cover" -lem
"That isn't the ceiling, that's the force field of my mind" -mml
"I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare, I don't care if he's in love" -jjl about the movie Shakespeare in Love
"What does that do?"
"It returns the number of milliseconds since the year of our birth"
"You contradicting me doesn't make you right" -scd
"Any food for which you need hammer and nail, that's my kind of food" -bcz
"There is no absolute yesterday" -dbg
"Speaking of new hardware, is there going to be a graphics lab real doll or what?"
"I'd rather watch men than clay any day" -scd
"I think that is the least depressing thing I've seen in this lab this late at night" -rgb about beautiful sunrise
"This gives you 24 bits of information, so don't draw more that 16,777,215 objects." -dlg in brown.cs.cs224
"I think it's because /home/lsh/space/locinfo doesn't exist or because /home/lsh/space/locinfo.dir and /home/lsh/space/locinfo.pag aren't world readable
or more realistically, because i'm having a bad unix day"
-srk
"Are you sick or just tenured?" -lsh asking jfh why he was going home early
I got students in the graphics lab codin' it on
and they ain't leaving till six in the morning
- The graphics lab song, srk, w/ apologies to Snoop Doggy dog
"I'm living in San Francisco these days. Its a city nearly as glorious as Providence"
-oa, humoring me
"Make sure there is no food or paint on you... Dress like Loring"
-ams about attire/appearance for demo
"I got more mail from specialevent@analsex.com"
-scd
"If you hang out with Jeff [Pickering], you will have sex with beautiful women" -jjl
"I like Nate too, but I don't like Nate"
-jmp
The common stereotype of the socially awkward male computer wizard who
doesn't know any females is one that many, MANY high school kids work hard to
live up to; some of those kids end up as freshmen in our department.
-kma on brown.cs.general
"We're out of girls [on the TA staff]" -rlweinst
"You're reading my mind!" -lsh
"Oh, I don't have my wallet" -cmw
"It's ok, we'll come up with another arrangement" -jjl
RCS file: RCS/draw.C,v [...] description: interactor for drawing free-form shapes ---------------------------- revision 1.230 date: 1999/05/09 22:05:04; author: srk; state: Exp; lines: +12 -0 Added in methods for a color marking men don't hit j 'til it works... ----------------------------we can all drink saki and get misty eyed saying, "remember the time i got that compile error, and you came up and put your hand on my shoulder, and said, just add a semi-colon"
"He's gandhi, the pacifist sniper" -gss about dcg's quake name
"What good is a woman if she's not naked?" -jjl
"I think being messed up is a side effect of being a loon" -scd
"Seriously though, I had a friend that called all these escort places in providence. He called all these different phone numbers, but the same guy kept answering the phone!" - anonymous
"What makes the situation worse is that the highest level cs course I've ever
taken is cs4, and quotes from the graphics group startup readme like 'these
paths are abstracted as being the result of a topological sort on the graph
of ordering dependencies for the entries' make me lose consciousness in my
chair and bleed from the nose."
-mgrimes, Graphics problem report 134
"It's like that Star Wars thing.... you broke my double edged tape" -jjl
"Is this just Bob & Loring's software engineering adventure again, or...?" -avd
for future reference never ever ever forward me anything from jjl.
god you guys need to get laid.
it is mean but it is true.
-mcc
NPAR accepted jd's silhouette paper and the graftal paper. apparently
the acceptance notices were sent to jd some time ago, who may not be
checking email often, probably because dallas is a really fun town.
-lem
I started teaching out here its lots of fun. I get to tell all the little kids what to do just like you get to do up in graphics-email from mml to lsh
So how're tricks? I was thinking about bringing home a tall,
leggy, blonde for you as a trip souvenir.
"You're forcing me to use angel - you and your gestapo rebooting tactics" -bob
Authentic Personal message at 16:36:30 on Wed Jul 25 2001 To: lsh@local-realm From: Benjamin Harris Whiteon vegas i should do laundry tonight, tool.
date: 2003/03/20 21:31:58; author: bcz; state: Exp; lines: +2 -0
Fixed Loring Swift Holden's braindead lamest coding mistake, and he's had
some lame ones before:
Instead of writing the .ano file to the file in the file dialog,
Loring thought it would be fun to write the .ano file over the
Word doc that the user was trying to import!
