This and That

What Oz Means
Amy Schumer’s funny take on What Mehmet Oz means when he says abortion should be between "a woman, her doctor, and local political leaders."
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Dormphone Days
One of the term-time jobs I took to earn my way though MIT was at Dormphone, the Dormitory Telephone System (DTS), later known as Dormline. Dorrmphone Days.
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Dumb Days
I was talking about the supercut of my Chronicle reviews when I recalled I did commentaries in the 1987-88 season,  also with a large dollop of shtick. The hardest one (steep hillside, dramatic leap, no teleprompter) was my commentary on Software Piracy.

Comments

[Robert E. Malchman]

Do you remember the outgoing Dormline message, "This is MIT, collect and third-number calls will not be accepted at this number," or if you misdialed, "You've reached a non-working number at MIT. Please check the number and dial again"?

When I was an undergrad, somebody hacked the second message to say, "You've reached an imaginary number at MIT. Please multiply by i and dial again." Brilliant.

[Paul Schindler]

I did not remember that specifically, but I remember the policy. I love the hack.