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From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly slider tool for rio
Date: Thu,  8 Mar 2001 08:01:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010308130136.1C4F6199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

	perhaps he had in mind that it was noisy, bright and colourful, and if
	you took something without paying you got your hand chopped off.

Or maybe haggling for hours over the details of payment with someone
who doesn't speak your language.

Catheter and the bizarre is closer to the truth. In one case you're force
fed by professionals; in the other anything can happen.

-rob



             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-08 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-08 13:01 rob pike [this message]
2001-03-09  2:40 ` Eric Dorman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-08 16:04 forsyth
2001-03-08 10:00 nigel
2001-03-08 10:20 ` Lucio De Re
2001-03-08  9:27 forsyth
2001-03-08  7:03 okamoto
2001-03-08  7:43 ` Lucio De Re
2001-03-08  7:53   ` Lucio De Re
2001-03-08 15:39   ` Dan Cross
2001-03-12  9:57 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-03-07 22:41 nemo
2001-03-07 22:15 nemo
2001-03-07 16:17 ` Lucio De Re
2001-03-07 23:31   ` Jim Choate
2001-03-07 21:50 nemo
2001-03-07 15:51 ` Lucio De Re
2001-03-07 21:34 nemo
2001-03-07 15:24 rob pike

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