Re: [ProgSoc] The ProgSoc Brick

[Peter Anthony Brownlow <roentgen@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

An amusing thought, but it's not really a responsible use of progsoc funds
unless it does more than fulfill the prez's desire to be hoopy and froody.

He's enough of a really together guy to do that without the assistance of
our membership fees, surely. ;)

</2 cents worth>

Peter




On Mon, 22 May 2000, Christian Kent wrote:

> 
> Okay, time to be froody.  I want to do something fun with ProgSoc's money.
> 
> This week you can buy $50 bricks from Boral to be laid at the Olympic
> site, and you get to pick 24 characters to be engraved on it.  You can
> pick any 24 characters on a normal keyboard, and spaces have to be
> included unless you want to use a linebreak instead.  You get a maximum of
> 3 lines but also a maximum of 12 characters per line.  Oh, and it has to
> be upper-case.
> 
> I was thinking that this would be a perfect way to immortalise a ProgSoc
> public key, but that would require how many bricks?  And there's no
> guarantee that they'd be laid next to each other.  So has anyone some
> ideas?
> 
> 	UTS PROGRAMMERS SOCIETY
> 	PROGRAMMERS SOCIETY
> 	THE PROGSOC BRICK
> 	THE FUCKING BRICK (not likely to pass)
> 	PROGSOC: TFB
> 	PROGSOC BACKUP BRICK
> 	PROGSOC BACKUP 20000531
> 	<A HREF="138.25.6.1">
> 	THIS IS A P.R.O.M.
> 	THIS IS A W.O.R.M.
> 	[ PROGSOC@nospam.BRICK ~]$	(linebreaks no good)
> 	/DEV/BRICK
> 	/DEV/BRICK -IDLE
> 	<MAILTO:NEAREST@nospam.WINDOW>
> '	TFB: DO NOT TURN OFF
> 
> Or we could blow loads of money and spread a cryptic message across
> several bricks, and you'd have to walk around Fig Grove Homebush Bay to
> find all of them.  (Likely to be within sight of each other though).
> 
> CK.
> 
> 
> 
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