"Nobody teaches assembly language"

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Wed Jun 23 20:39:10 2004

It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin once stated:
>
> A few years ago, they dumpstered most of Monte's collection two
> weeks BEFORE the deadline that they had given him to remove it.
> I had to get my VT100 back from their dumpster.
> I was able to negotiate keeping a single 4 foot wide shelf
> of artifacts. But they threatened Monte with criminal
> prosecution if he went near the dumpsters.

  Um ... who's Monte, and why did they do such a horrible thing to him?

> They won't even willingly let me store my weapons of math instruction.
> (abacus, slide rule, board with 32 lightbulbs, 24" CADET? disk
> platter, etc.) Fortunately, they haven't been looking behind
> the books on my bookshelves :-)
> But one administrator has expresses an intent to forbid
> any of us having more than one bookcase!
>
>
> Wanna know WHY I'm grumpy?

  I want to know why they're taking stuff away from you. That's insane!
Unless there's a concerted effort to remove education from "the great
unwashed masses" without "the great unwashed masses" from knowing ...

  -spc (There seem to be plenty of trade schools left, but are there any
        real universities?)
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 20:39:10 BST