On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > 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.
Yes, he got his prescience from a spice overdose (always fatal to men except in his case) and that is how the Guild Navigators were able to fold space to "travel without moving" and avoid collisions with planets and suns and such. (I'm a huge Dune fan :) ). I need to find the time to read the last couple of books Brian Herbert has written for the series. I guess I was looking for a joke that just wasn't there. -- Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
