From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 23:28:02 MST
Barbara Lamar wrote:
>
> At 10:23 AM 12/27/2000 -0800, Brian D. Williams wrote:
>
> >I think the point was that you can have a very optimized genome,
> >but without the proper attitude it's wasted.
> >. I know people who
> >are proto-GATTs, we used to call them yuppies. Ever been inside an
> >Arthur Anderson headquarters? It'd pass for GATTACA in a minute.
>
> Ha! Speaking of attitude, I worked in the tax section of Arthur Andersen in
> Austin many years ago and was told that if I wanted to keep my job I'd
> better stop riding a bicycle to work. Not only must I get rid of the bike,
> I must have the right kind of car, eat at the right restaurants for lunch,
> and be properly dressed at any time I appeared in public. Actually, though,
> when I worked in the computer section at the Chicago headquarters things
> were more relaxed. The computer people were thought of as naturally
> eccentric and weird.
>
I trust you told these right bastards precisely where to stuff it in
excruciating detail?
- s.
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