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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, crunching WUs no mortal ever dared to crunch before. Apologies to E. A. Poe "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
I close my BOINC, only for a moment, and the Workunits's gone All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind Same old song, just a FLOP of water in an endless sea All we do, Crunches to the ground, though we refuse to see Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but BOINC and Seti It slips away, all your money won't another Workunit buy Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Cold hearted raid that rules the night. Removes the work units form our site. MB's are grey AP's are white. But we decide which BOINC is right. And which is an illusion. Pinprick holes let the card die. Uncut tapes from Arecibo pass by. The mighty WOWS of ten thousand suns. Challenges infinity and is soon gone. Crunch time to some a brief interlude. To others the fear of cuda solitide. Brave SETI wake up your steeds. Bring back the warmth our computers need. Breath deep the gathering gloom. Power buttons fade from every room. Computer farm crunchers look back and lament. Another day with no energy spent. Impassioned moderators wrestle as one. Many men cry for work and have none. Project scientists wish they were done. Cold hearted raid that rules the night. Removes the work units from our site. MB's are grey AP's are white. But we decide which BOINC is right. And which is an illusion. My apologies to Justin Hayward [/quote] Old James |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Crunching is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were crunchers.. Isaac Bashevis Singer "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
By three methods we may learn crunching.......First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. And the least of all, which is be having none. Confucius "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Apologies to Iron Maiden -Powerslave Into the abyss I'll fall-the eye of Admins Into the eyes of the night-watching me go Green is the cat's eye that glows-in this Bx Enter the risen Astropulse-risen again. Tell me why I had to be a RAC H00r My Farm don't wanna die, I'm a god, why can't it live on? When Seti@home dies, all around is laid waste. And in my last hour, I'm a slave to the power of BOINC. When I was Crunching this lie-Workunits were my game People would worship and fall-drop to their knees So bring me the blood and red wine for the Cruncher to succeed me For he is a man and a god-and he will die too. CHORUS Now I am cold but a ghost WU lives in my veins, Silent the terror that reigned-marbled in stone Shell of a man God preserved-a thousand ages But open the gates of my hell-the workunit will strike from the grave. CHORUS In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson In this case, I must leave a trail to the original post, so bold may it be. I would quote thusly.... Do not go where the path may lead, for it may lead you astray. Go forth instead, to where it leads you, my friend. For it will lead you to another day. You know well and good that no other before have trod this path laid before you. And still, though with doubt you are filled, you must follow the path that befalls you. This, such as yours, is the path that wonder befalled you. You have seen Seti's path, and like none other since, you have followed the crumbs laid before you. We have all followed since....... Though our word we sometimes mince. And our true thougts follow somewhat behind us. We all are here for a hope we hold dear. That another mind long lost will find us. I bring these thoughts hence, and I hope my lack of pretence does not bore ya because I hold them so dear, and I hope lack to the servers won't find us sucking dust in the wind, or just killing off kin, or the lack of reminding what binds us. We are kin, we are family........ we are a few of a kind, and as such, we must stick close together. No matter what come, not matter what will. No matter what seems the weather. You see, as my story unravels and is told, it's not just mine told, but it yours. For as easily said that my path had bean tread.. Your footsteps in mine have been borne. So do not easily post your words unto me telling me just where I should have gone. Just know that like you, I have stayed here long 'nough to sing you my song. Meow. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Daniel Michel Send message Joined: 2 Feb 04 Posts: 14925 Credit: 1,378,607 RAC: 6 |
Where there is one work unit...you'll always find another...two work units at the end of the world... PROUD TO BE TFFE! |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
There are some WUs that never rest....... And never will. It is their demeanor that characterizes the world that the rest of us live in. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
There is matter and antimatter. So does that mean they cancel each other out and I have 0 credits? [/quote] Old James |
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