Return-Path: Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 21:10:43 -0500 From: Alan Bawden Sender: Alan@ai.mit.edu To: All-AI@ai.mit.edu Subject: GSB Friday, 5:30pm, 7th floor playroom What -is- a GSB? What does it do? How can you get one? Are there different versions of the GSB? Where can I FTP a copy for my Sparc? These questions keep coming up over and over again. So here is my attempt at a GSB FAQ. It may still have some inaccuracies that need to be ironed out... ------- What is the GSB? The GSB is part of a secret world government with a lineage stretching back 5,000 years to the Canaanites and the cult of Baal. It reaches into every sphere of life. The doctors are in it, as well as the Queen of England, the Masons, the US Federal Reserve, the Trilateral Commission, Skull and Bones, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A UFO expert believes that Hitler's scientists landed on the moon in 1942 and, with the Japanese, sent a mission to Mars. At the South Pole an underground colony of 2 million people is even now perfecting space travel. What does the GSB do? It makes change. Some models have a ice dispenser. You can insert a floppy disk containing your thesis, and it will translate it into first order lambda calculus. It's yellow and relaxing. How should I prepare for attending the GSB? Fill a bathtub with moderately warm water so the level comes up almost to the overflow drain when you get in. Immerse yourself in it for a minute, and then completely dissolve in the bath water 1 pound of SUN-evaporated SEA-salt (regular salt won't work.) and 1 pound of fresh baking-soda. PRECAUTIONS: Only the ONE person using each bath should prepare it and drain it. For at least 30 minutes after taking the bath, stay away from, and even out of sight of, other people. (Your greatly expanded Aura energy-field during that time could disrupt other people's fields.) Do NOT take this bath within a few hundred miles of a thunder storm, within 3 days of a full moon, nor during "Major" or "Minor Periods" as listed in the "Solunar Tables" published bimonthly in "Field & Stream" Magazine, (because of the measurable disruptive ambient environmental energy-fields present at those times). Do NOT take this bath more than four times per year. Is the GSB object-oriented? As Philip K. Dick wrote in "VALIS": We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing. Does anyone have an implementation of GSB that runs in Common Lisp? Guy Steele supplied us with the following code. First do: (set-macro-character #\\ #'(lambda (s c) (list 'lambda (list (read s)) (read s)))) Then: (\/`(,/',/)'\/`(,/',/)) ------- If you would like to help improve this FAQ, please attend this week's G I R L S C O U T B E N E F I T to be held Friday, 5:30pm, seventh floor playroom.