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On Oct 21, 2016 7:05 PM, "Robert Wall" <[email protected]> wrote: > > “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 >> > > > ============================================================ > 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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