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- Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:45:55 EST
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- From: ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (73)
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Akio Tanaka" at Dec 21, 92 5:16 pm
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- Here I sit, looking out a WINDOW, in Building 3 of AT&T's Murray Hill
- facility. Yeah, a window: glass, no Microsoft or X. It's only one
- flight up from the street, and it's sealed shut, so I can't endanger
- myself if I'm having a particularly bad day:-). It's sort of an old,
- funky building, very factory-looking, with a machine shop downstairs,
- in fact. The downside is having an officemate. If people call me
- here anymore (note the new phone number at the bottom of the message),
- I shall have to watch my language.
-
- > 5) Sprint/Ted Mack (Ken W.)
- U.S.Sprint is a major competitor of AT&T in the wonderful world of
- long distance. Candice Bergen is their spokesperson and is a lot
- better at it than Cliff Robertson was as the front man for AT&T a few
- years back. Ted Mack was the host of the old radio Amateur Hour: this
- may be so old it's even older than me.... People would get up and
- tapdance while trying to whistle the sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor
- while chewing Uneeda bisquits: stuff like that. That was my
- assessment of how AT&T handles some aspects of its business.
-
- > 7) Al Roker (Aaron)
- Pleasant gentleman who does the weather on Channel 4 (NBC) in New
- York. He's probably no more a meteorologist than I am, but his
- personality is considerably better, too.
-
- > 8) George Metesky (John Wm.)
- Wow. THE MAD BOMBER. I'd forgotten all about him. He was big when I
- was in junior high school back in the Fab Fifties. I think he was some
- sort of disgruntled something or other who set off some pretty
- incompentently made bombs. I don't think anyone get seriously hurt
- before the cops got him.
-
- > 16) DFW/PIN (Ken W.)
- DFW is Dallas-Fort Worth airport. PIN is an acronym for Personal
- Identification Number, the four-digit code on the end of AT&T (and
- regional Bell) calling cards. You have to punch it in (or the
- cardreader has to validate it) so you can make calls from a voice or
- dataphone.
- --
- Kenneth Wolman | I'm a Doctor, you're a Doctor
- AT&T Bell Laboratories | He's a Doctor, she's a Doctor,
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- Kenneth.Wolman@att.com | A Doctor too??
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