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- From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
- Subject: Really Utterly Completely Totally Meaningless Dream
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.200224.28263@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Self-Basting Turkeys
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 20:02:24 GMT
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- I had a work dream and alt.angst dream in one yesterday, a well-packaged,
- merchandisable dream, so of course I have to tell everyone about it. It
- had a nice obvious moral that I will ignore, which in part was "don't
- tell them all about it." But dreaming about work makes me want to sing
- with joy: Hymn #507, "Snap me into place and turn me in circles
- forever, God, I'm happy to be a cog."
-
- In the dream, I start in the front yard of this hotel, and I repeatedly
- fuck up, I don't remember how. Somehow fucking up equals ending up
- further and further back in the yard, and the part of the yard is
- physically identical to the paper I'm creating life-graphs on;
- unfortunately the graph keeps straying below the bottom of the paper so
- I keep having to start over while displaying lower and lower ranges of
- the life-quality-axis. But I fix the problem once and for all by making
- sure the life-quality-axis goes all the way to the back fence, where the
- dumpster is; I end up right in the dumpster but at least I have my nice
- neat graph of it, The End.
-
- [I have recently spent a long boring time finding the best ranges to
- display for a billion (I counted) graphs in math textbooks.]
-
- I had fallen asleep with the light on, the sort of thing where you're
- groggier after than before and after you can't remember just how many
- times you half-awoke in the middle of it. I bet that if the conditions
- were tuned perfectly I could die of starvation while switching between
- sleep and half-sleep, never waking enough to turn the lights off, a
- corpse with red marks going down the sides of my legs at the jeans'
- seams.
-