On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Brian Lawson wrote:

> On Dec 11, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>>> I got a notice from our central systems downtime notification list
>>> today:
>>>
>>> "On Friday, December 19th from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. UITS will be
>>> performing an emergency reboot on one of the VMWare servers. "
>>>
>>> What, we hire Paul Atriedes as a sysadmin lately?
>>
>> hah. Atreides. Been too long, had to Google that one.
>
> I knew who Paul Atreides was but I didn't get the joke. :( Or is it a
> reference to the announcements over the intercom in the movie when
> they arrived on Arrakis? That just came to me as I was typing this.
> --
> Brian

As I recall, spice was used by pilots to better navigate the  
universe. By seeing slightly into the future, they were able to avoid  
collisions. I don't specifically recall how Paul acquired prescience,  
but I think that is what Bruce is flicking our way.

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