Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other impression is of a faint haze ofzaniness that hung over the Crimson building at 14Plympton St. I remember an eight-day bicycle racestaged when Crimson editors lugged bikes into thebig news room and made a raceway by pushing allthe desks together in a tight rectangle. Writersworked imperviously, tossing copy to the desk inthe intervals between riders...
...only two things you really need in life: a way to improve our lot on Earth, and a cool computer screensaver. Now I've got both, thanks to SETI@home, a nifty piece of software that searches for intelligent life in the universe whenever I'm away from my desk. The program, available for free at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu is the brainchild of SETI scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, who have been scanning the skies for E.T.'s radio signals for more than 20 years...
...across my screen in flickering blues, purples and reds, is a Jodie Foster moment. In the movie Contact, you may remember, Foster plays a frustrated SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...
...police gun-retrieval squad at my apartment would be more Access Hollywood-friendly than a tape of me and a gun dealer. They put me on the phone with Detective Walter Burnes, who said I'd probably get a visit if I called 911. "If I'm the desk sergeant, I send the car over for anything," he explained. "You tell me you scratched your nose, we send a car over...
...with screams, it was time for the mundanities of survival as students and teachers alike took a day out of summer Tuesday to pick up the things they had left behind. Backpacks, long since checked for pipe bombs, still lay in front of lockers; car keys still sat in desk drawers. Almost everyone had something to come back for, and all of them had something to see and remember: the closet where they had hidden, the classroom where they had huddled and prayed, the parking lot where it all began. The library where it ended...