GSB members talk back

["Michael McGeachie" <mmcgeach@>]

Some of you, and you know who you are, have been ignoring these weekly
messages.  However some of your coworkers find our messages so engaging,
so thought-provoking, so
reality-mind-bending-like-in-the-matrix-where-Neo-flexes-and-the-walls-e
xpand, that they are motivated, nay--compelled, to write back to GSB.
And without further procrastination, we present the first edition of...


>From the GSB Inbox!


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Bryt Bradley: (in response to 'Orkut vs. Friendster')
Dude!  You totally left out myspace.com & (of course) Live Journal. :(

GSB: sorry!  Will you still be my 'friend' on Orkut?

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Christopher Peikert:  (in response to 'Orkut vs. Friendster')
Please don't tease me.  I have *lusted* after an orkut membership for
*too long* to just be sent to the homepage without an official
invitation!  Send a real link, or be forever deemed in my mind as an
intolerable orkut-flirt!!!

GSB: lust no further!  Anyone who sends me an email and 100$US in
non-sequential, unmarked twenties can have an invitation.

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Rodney Brooks: (in response to 'Orkut vs. Friendster')
Please let me be your friend!

GSB: ok, sure.

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Jon Doyle, my Advisor:  (in response to 'Q&A with a Postmodernist')
I knew you should give up the postmodern reading.  Take up raising
hamsters, it's safer.

GSB: Yessir!

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Fern DeOliveira: (in response to 'GSB Caucuses')
At 04:18 PM 1/23/2004, you wrote:
At 6:45, _Rebeveraging_ takes place

is this even a word???

GSB: you're right.  You caught us.  We mangle the language and generally
escape without so much as a fine.  Remember the 'Talk Like a Pirate'
message?

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James Peng: (in response to 'A Zen Koan')
I am on a business trip from Jan 6 - Jan 31/ 2004. Consequently, I might
not be able to respond to your e-mail in time. However, during this
period, I will try to check my e-mail on a daily basis and get back to
you as soon as I can.  Sorry for the inconvenience !!

GSB: Although one correct answer to the question posed in the Koan was
"three figs on a branch," this response also earns full points.

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Michal Karczmarek: (in response to 'GSB Sarcastic Socialization Tips')
you are one sick sob, mike

GSB: hey, don't blame me, I just call it like I see it.

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Dave Anderson, GSL Czar: (in response to 'Love between CSAIL and Sloan')
thank goodness, for all our sakes, you don't have to write GSL messages,
too.

GSB: We'll let you borrow our staff writers if you let us be your
'friend' on Orkut.


That's all there was in the inbox today.  Future issues of the GSB
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