Here are some of my old sig files. In the early days of the
internet before the web was a gleam in Tim's eye and teradytals roamed the skies
free of cell phone towers, email contained tiny little quotes at the bottom.
These were called 'sigs' (not to be confused with the abbreviated form of cigarettes )
and here were some of mine.
!*''# Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, |
| ^@`$$- Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash, |
| !*'$_ Bang splat tick dollar under-score, |
| %*<>#4 Percent splat waka waka number four, |
| &)../ Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash, |
| |{~~SYSTEM HALTED" Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH. |
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| Mitch Fincher | "You are helplessly hypnotized. You |
| mitch@lgc.com | will believe everything I tell you. |
| | This message does not exist." |
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mitch@lgc.com
'For every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil,
there is one striking at the root'
- Thoreau
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Mitch Fincher mitch@issi.com
"And all the science I don't understand,
Its just my job five days a week."
-Elton John, *Rocket Man*
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Mitch Fincher mitch@issi.com
"We feel that even when *all possible* scientific questions have been
answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched."
(Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," 6.52)
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"The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer,
although they should be."
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"Information wants to be free."
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Mitch Fincher mitch@lgc.com
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE:
The compassion of the IRS, the efficiency of the Post Office, with the
price of a Pentagon procurement.
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"One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions" -- Wernher Von Braun
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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
-- BladeRunner.
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Mitch Fincher mitch@lgc.com "Every \item command in
Landmark Graphics Corp. ph: 512/292-2236 item_list must have an
Systems Incorporated fax: 512/292-2220 optional argument".
Austin Texas 78745 -Leslie Lamport, LaTeX
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\_\_ \_\_ \_ Landmark Graphics Corp. ph: 512/292-2236
\_ \_\_ \_ \_ fax: 512/292-2220
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Mitch Fincher mitch@lgc.com
"Given jet engines and lawn mowers, it's just a matter of
time till someone puts the two together."
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_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ | Mitch Fincher -- Project Manager
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | Landmark Graphics Corp.
_/ _/ _/ _/ | 220 Foremost Dr.
_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ | Austin, TX 78745
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_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | Off:512-292-2236 Fax:512-292-2220
_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ | Internet: mitch@lgc.com
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You know you are a red-neck when:
- Your momma keeps a spit cup on the ironing board
- Your two year old has more teeth than you do
- You have an above ground swimming pool in the back yard
you use for fishing
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"Whatever will build in this life is composed of a thousand bricks."
-Jim Huddleston
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"Being a software engineer means always having to say you're sorry."
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If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you;
but if you really make them think,
they'll hate you.
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("there is a difference, you know, between DEL and DIR...")
."Laugh-a while you can-a, monkey boy." ---Emilio Lizardo/Jon Warfin
I had a .sig, but it was recalled.
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"Did the Corinthians ever write back?"
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Just remember. Wherever you go, there you are.
--Buckaroo Banzai
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If my employer thinks my opinions are of no consequence, why should you?
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"Black holes are where God divided by zero!" - Gerald J. Jurrens N2GJ
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"If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary."
-Cicero, De Oritare
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"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
-- H.L. Mencken
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"I think people worry too much...and this really concerns me."
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"Three Rings for the Elven Kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.
In the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows Lie."
-- "Lord of the Rings," J.R.R. Tolkien
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"The Creation of the Universe was made possible by a grant from Texas
Instruments." -- PBS
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(the_wind)fate;
casting fate to the wind.
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There is no future in time travel.
mitch@lgc.com
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---- Dyslexics of the World: Untie! ----
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"It took some users a while to come to grips with the intuitive way
Windows works". -Australia computer magazine.
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Fincher's First Law of Entertainment: "If you've seen one episode of
a TV show 9 months ago and you just happen to be home in time to see
the show again - it will be the same episode."
mitch@lgc.com
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Be warned about
"prayers that Heaven in enormous vengence grants"
-Horace
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Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
-Derek Tearne
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"A man's own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against
the Lord." - Proverbs 19:3
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"Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not
see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make
believe that there are no monsters." -Das Kapital, preface, Karl Marx
mitch@issi.com
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"As Christians, we spend too much time trying to make others like us,
and not enough time *really* loving others." -mitch fincher
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This .signature has been stolen! Reward offered for its safe return.
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"However, one-level objects often play the role of classes to take advantage of
sharing and often instances will simply delegate to parents to access methods
or shared state, otherwise idiosyncratic objects, a powerful and natural
concept, will result." -comp.object FAQ
mitch@lgc.com (ps: What does that mean?)
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We care. We care about people. Deeply. Vaguely. Many parts of the
world are not very nice. We want to help. Help us find out which
parts they are. Or whatever. You know.
AMNESIA
INTERNATIONAL
PO Box either 207, or 702, or 027,
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"In relation to coal and oil, the world's annual consumption has become
so enormous that we are now actually within measurable distance of the
end of the supply." - Alexander Graham Bell February 1, 1917.
mitch@lgc.com
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TheEncyclopedia c2300. United States of America: A fairly shortlived
empire, (see also Great Britain), now remembered mainly as the Internet's
birth place.
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"Success is the only distinguisher between right and wrong."
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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"Communists believed there was a price for an object other than what
people were willing to pay for it."
~PJ O'Rourke _Give War A Chance_
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"He's dead, Jim!"
"Will you stop saying that? Bones, you're a doctor not a record player!"
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"vi is like camping - something everyone should know how to do, just in
case you need it - but hardly appropriate for everyday living." -Mitch Fincer
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If you're against killing endangered species - don't kill any!
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"Very funny, Scotty... now beam down my clothes."
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"... then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- Anais Nin
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It's not a 'black and white' monitor, it's just 'chromatically challenged'.
mitch@lgc.com
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State Trooper to Heisenberg: "Do you realise how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg to State Trooper: "Yes, but I have no idea where I am!"
mitch@lgc.com
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Mitch Fincher
mitch@lgc.com
Also researching anderson barksdale belk bonneau calhoun casady
chastain davis ewing fincher hunter kane kedmann killough montgomery
pickens pike satterfield steele thomas young and wallace
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mitch@lgc.com
http://w3.zycor.lgc.com/~mitch
http://www.emcee.com/~mfincher
"And may each day find us better prepared for death, judgement and
eternity." Diary of Mary Pickens Anderson, my ggggmother
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Opinions expressed herein are my own and no sillier than yours.
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"And if I had a boat, I'd go out on the ocean.
And if I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat.
And we would all together,go out on the ocean.
Me up on my pony on my boat." -- Lyle Lovett
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false
because spoken magnificently. -St. Augustine"
mitch@lgc.com
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana (1863-1952), American philosopher and poet.
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"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
(Anything sounds profound in Latin).
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This message was brought to you by the letter 'S' and the symbol '@'.
mitch@lgc.com
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Who has saved us and called us to a holy life -
not because of anything we have done
but because of his own purpose and grace.
II Timothy 1:9
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" Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun,
but I have never been able to make out the numbers." --Forrest Gump
mitch@lgc.com
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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -Popular Mechanics,
forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
http://chevy.zycor.lgc.com:1600/~mitch/home.html
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Forget chasing rainbows... ...it doesn't work. If you want rainbows, chase storms.
_______________________________________________________________________David P. Burdette
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# "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. #
# The vehicle suddenly flips, pinning you underneath. #
# At night, the ice weasels come." #
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