Where is balance? -- Re: Academic priorities
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From: Joe Pfeiffer on 6 May 2005 14:25 K Williams <krw(a)att.bizzzz> writes: > In article <1b64xw8o32.fsf(a)cs.nmsu.edu>, pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu says... > > Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis(a)SystematicSW.Invalid> writes: > > > > > Crew hostages? > > > > What airline do you fly that has large glass bottles? > > > Carry-on from the duty free shop? Good point. -- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
From: Joe Pfeiffer on 6 May 2005 14:26 Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo(a)eircom.net> writes: > On 06 May 2005 07:47:06 -0600 > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > > > And, of course, my son always has a small screwdriver in his clarinet > > case (a screwdriver which was confiscated as a potential weapon once > > when the band was getting on an airplane). > > They presumably ignored the possibility of the carinet case being > used as a cosh. And the clarinet itself. I don't remember whether the percussionists had to check their sticks through. -- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
From: Terje Mathisen on 6 May 2005 15:14 Morten Reistad wrote: > In article <d5dhod01pjg(a)news4.newsguy.com>, > Norman Yarvin <norman.yarvin(a)snet.net> wrote: > >>In article <d5a5rr$tms$1(a)osl016lin.hda.hydro.com>, >>Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen(a)hda.hydro.com> wrote: >> >> >>>Besides, who needs a sharp knife when a broken whiskey bottle is handy? >> >>Me. Bottles are not as easy to break as the movies show; and once broken >>they're liable to break further, likely shattering in the wielder's hand. > > So you wrap something around the nect of the bottle that will protect you. > thick leather, canvas, linen will do pretty well. The you make a small incision > in the glass, and try to hit it right there. > > This was taught in the navy. Don't boys learn such stuff there anymore? In the scouts we learned to wrap some twine around it, soaked in spirits: Put a match to it, let it burn for a short while, then hit the glass. Relatively often, this results in a nice cut where the twine was. Terje -- - <Terje.Mathisen(a)hda.hydro.com> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
From: Terje Mathisen on 6 May 2005 15:14 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > What airline do you fly that has large glass bottles? SAS, KLM, BA, Lufthansa, Continental, plus probably a few I've forgotten: Taxfree bottles! Terje -- - <Terje.Mathisen(a)hda.hydro.com> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
From: Jack Peacock on 6 May 2005 16:12
"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message news:1b64xw8o32.fsf(a)cs.nmsu.edu... > What airline do you fly that has large glass bottles? > China Airways, on the Los Angeles to Taipei flight. At least in business class, the cart is stacked high with real wine bottles. Jack Peacock |