I was procrastinating from work again, reading about the “Top 50 innovations” of plastics technology in the past 50 years (when I was supposed to be reading about displacement of primary production with recycled materials, but as it turns out there’s not much to read about that, which is why we will propose to the NSF that it be studied (by us). more))
–Leo, to Harry, “Billion Dollar Brain” (1967) Michael Caine.
Somebody, somewhere, made an inside joke to that scene.. because I’ve seen a scene of a guy in a sauna saying “It’s love. remember it?” and I feel like I’ve seen it more than once, but I’ve never seen this movie. So I think, maybe in a TV show (or some later, lesser movie), there was a scene where a guy said that to somebody. Some writer made an inside joke and I could be in on it if I just remember what movie.
Heh.
So, all that ranting I did about the network admins at the bren school? It’s gradually dawned on me, and has now been confirmed empirically, that the entire UCSB network, which I think is all of 128.111, is off limits. Been over 48 hours now. It seems I actually pissed off more))
Throughout my graduate studies, I built my PhD work on the backbone of a thoughtfully designed computer infrastructure. I synchronized files across multiple machines using rsync, utilized proprietary software (matlab) from home via X forwarding, and also made use of CMU’s subnet to access protected resources, like online journals, on the web via a socks proxy (that’s what it’s called- honest). more))
