Nick, Well, sometimes when I'm thinking about a dream, I suddenly remember some detail that I had completely forgotten. But more often I fall back to sleep. In my old age, I seldom remember dreams.
Frank Frank Wimberly On Oct 21, 2016 6:26 PM, "Nick Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Good lord, Frank. Surely you are teasing me. How could your memory of a > dream not be accurate?! > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Frank > Wimberly > *Sent:* Friday, October 21, 2016 5:50 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare > > > > I first learned Unix when I went to work at Bell Labs in 1978. I was only > there for two years but over the next 18 years at Carnegie Mellon I used > Unix workstations or time-sharing systems almost constantly. The other > night I had a dream that involved Unix. I am not saying the dream made > sense. Dreams often don't. For some reason I had a feeling that someone > had modified my system by replacing the cat command with a shell script > that didn't behave the way cat should. I decided to use the which command > to find where the fake cat script was located in the file system. But then > I thought how can I examine the script without using cat. I was going > around in circles about this until I sort of woke up. I realized that I > could use ed to look at the script. Then I went back to sleep. Sometimes > my memories of my dreams aren't accurate. > > Frank > > Frank Wimberly > Santa Fe, NM > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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