Thanks. The name gremlin still brings Spielberg's malicious pranksters
before my mind's eye. Nice to see a metaphysical musing on the
unpredictability of the cosmos emerging from everyday's unnatural attitude.
Paul H. Dillon
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy who-is-at mail.lesley.edu>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: Gremlins
>At 10:56 AM +0100 10/1/99, Martin Owen wrote:
>>There is a perception of unaccountability in the term "gremlin",
>>whereas trojans and viruses have assured human origins.
>
>Exactly. "Gremlin" includes the possibility of the problem being the
origin, by happenstance or worse.
>
>Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
>Lesley College, 31 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
>Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
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> and watch yourself softly become the author of something beautiful."
>[Norman Maclean in "A river runs through it."]
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