> “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a Unix programmer, fluttering hither and > thither, to all intents and purposes a Unix programmer. I was conscious > only of my happiness as a Unix programmer, unaware that I was myself. Soon > I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know > whether I was then a man dreaming I was a Unix programmer, or whether I am > now a Unix programmer, dreaming I am a man.” > > ― > with "permission" from > Zhuangzi <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/149093.Zhuangzi>, The > Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the > Chuang-Tzu <http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/833917> > 😎 >
It happens to all of us ... 😴 😁 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > ============================================================ > 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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