2/19    Did you, as an undergrad, watch Animaniacs, listen to Beatles,
        and sing Russian peasant drinking songs on Hearst? If you did,
        can you say something about yourself, like when you were there,
        who you're with, etc? I'm trying to locate old friends. ok thx.
        \_ yes, yes, no(at least I don't remember,but maybe I was too drunk)
          \_ Budu zhdat' tebja zaranee U izluchiny reki. Prihodi zhe na
             svidanie, Ja prochtu tebe stihi, -- Pro podruzhek pro veselyh
             I zatejlivyh rebjat, Pro tebja, moja ljubimaja, Srazu tri
             stiha podrjad.
             \_ someone please translate this???
        \_ Everyday I'd watch Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Batman on Fox from
           3:30 to 5:00. If time didn't allow I'd watch them on pre-recorded
           VHS tape. WEB (Workstations at Evan's Basement) was too far at
           night, so I'd dial into Berkeley's free PPP connection and telnet
           to http://soda.berkeley.edu using my state of the art 33Mhz 386 with 16M
           RAM via my blazingly fast 14.4K baud modem. From there I'd do a
           lot of stuff, like checking email, reading motd, and stuff like
           that. I'd listen to Arthur Rubenstein playing Chopin from a tape
           set using my dad's old Panasonic tape player. Usually there were
           a lot of work to be done, but since they're not urgent, I'd play
           DikuMUD, chat/nwrite/ytalk to people online while listening to
           Chopin's Noctures (on cassette tapes), on rainy, quiet, somewhat
           lonely nights.
             That was over a decade ago. I'm now ssh'ed into soda (now known
           as http://csua.berkeley.edu) using my P4 3Ghz 1G RAM machine via broadbnd.
           There are a lot of things I have to do but since they're not
           urgent, I'm just checking motd, gmail, surfing, and chatting people
           on AIM and Yahoo Messenger. Yes, it's a raining, quiet, somewhat
           lonely night, and I'm listening to Chopin's Noctures, on MP3.
             It's amazing how some things have changed, and how some things
           haven't. I guess when you get old you start to treasure things that
           do not change, or things that seemed insignificant at the time, but
           now you have this strange fond memories of, like logging into soda.
           I love soda and I hope it will never go away.             -old man
           \_ I'm not sure whether I should join in the reminiscing
              or mock you.
                \_ both is acceptable
           \_ Did you ever get a girlfriend all those years?
           \_ I was across the street drinking myself to sweet oblivion.