From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <86bed3080d3e76f2c6ccbb65ab62fadf@centurytel.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Free Plan 9 "shell" accounts? From: "Skip Tavakkolian" In-Reply-To: <7bc5cb2c34392d7d85276768fdff3f42@mightycheese.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 20:34:15 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b3fc96b2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Don P. Mitchell had the markov program that inspired whoever had the > original idea. The code we used was rewritten by brucee. I believe I > wrote the shell script wrapper and, with brucee, created the account, > mail box, etc. Brucee did most of the daily management of MVS's wit. A reprint of the SA article is in "The Magic Machine" book by Dewdney. In it, Dewdney says "Readers may also be interested in what is perhaps Mark V. Shaney's magnum opus: a 20-page commentary on the deconstructionist philosophy of Jean Boudrillard". I found a link to an old email by rob. MVS's dissertation sounds remarkably like some of the recent discussions on 9fans. Now I see how we ended up here. http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/c-g.writing/cgw.baudrillard.txt