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From: pgs@ai.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 10:06:47 EDT
To: all-ai
Subject: GSB Friday, April 30, 5:30 pm, seventh floor playroom

                       RENEWAL WORKSHOP SERIES

                      Healing, Hacking, Loving:
               Finding and Empowering Your Inner Luser

                          Robert Sly, Ph.D.

Every program you write is a sacred program.  But many young hackers,
especially, have lost touch with the rituals and timeless archetypes
that bind them to other hackers in a tradition stretching back through
the decades.  These symbols -- motifs, sacred objects, songs and
archetypes -- can help us ground negative energy associated with
hacking and bind us together in a holistic framework with the
applications we build, the systems we work with, and our user
communities.

Sitting in isolated offices, working on small, poorly-designed systems
that sit on our desks, many of us have never understood or felt
connected to those sacred dimensions of experience that characterized
ancient hacking -- the triple rainbow cycle of development, the path
to the machine room, the banishing of losers from the system console.
Robert Sly, Ph.D., will lead the participants in this workshop on a
shamanic journey to their own inner machine rooms.  Typing at our
inner system consoles, we will each find and load our own personal
symbol tables, very carefully patch our running systems, and proceed
in an experience of transcendent renewal.


Robert Sly, Ph. D., is an expert on Apollonian and Dionysian
traditions of hacking who has read The New Hacker's Dictionary,
memorized several of the definitions, and occasionally sent mail to
UNIX-HATERS.  But he won't be at this week's

                 G I R L   S C O U T   B E N E F I T

at 5:30pm today in the seventh floor playroom, so we're safe!  Come on
down, drink beer or root beer, and meditate until your personal power
application appears to you in a sacred vision.