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Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

861.0. "Like tears in the rain" by POLAR::BAYNE (This space for rent) Mon Sep 26 1994 16:53

        This Friday will be my last day with Digital Equipment.  
        There are three things I'll miss:
            
        The people with whom its been my good fortune to share a 
        large part of my life.  My extended family in New 
        Hampshire, the people in Information Systems Management 
        to whom it was not a job but an adventure, the sage whose 
        greetings were a salute and a joke, the last of the 
        Mohicans, Raj, and the people who displayed confidence in 
	my abilities and brought me into their groups.
        
        I remember saying to myself the first day I worked here, 
        "Geez they're going to pay me to do this?"  I was, and 
        still am awe-struck by the technology that this patchwork 
        leviathan produces.
        
        Finally I'll miss all the grins of snow bags, blue oyster 
        cults, abusement parks, getting the Wawa goose, "fairy 
        rides" and all the off center, slightly irreverent notes 
        that this conference's noters have provided.  In all they 
        have captured the sense of humour that makes this notes 
        file uniquely Canadian.
        
        In closing I'll leave you with a quote from one of my all 
        time favourite movies which comes close to summing up my 
        feelings:
        
            "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
             Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
             I watched sea-beams glitter in the dark near the 
             Tenhauser Gate.
             All those moments will be lost in time..."
        
        Shawn Bayne  Dec 1976 - Sept 1994
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861.1POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentTue Sep 27 1994 09:538
    Shawn,

    		It won't be the same without you.

    		I had no idea you were a Nexus 6 replicant though.  ;-)
    		(My favourite movie too)

    Glenn
861.2Blue skies on MarsKAFS31::LACAILLEHalf-filled bottles of inspirationTue Sep 27 1994 12:1612
	Take care Shane, but make sure you keep in touch....souvlaki
	would not be the same without ya.

	From someone who new you as the fat guy who knows disks who sits
	beside the skinny guy who knows tapes.

	It was great working with you all those years

	Charlie

	ps Glen(n), I think I am going to cry!
861.3Say it ain't so...KUTIPS::ROBILLARDTue Sep 27 1994 13:057
    Shawny,
    
    It was difficult enough to imagine our group without you and now we'll
    have to imagine DEC without you. This one hurts. All I can say is,
    you'll be missed. All the best and via con Dios mi amigo.
    
    Ben
861.4Grown men can cry in the 90'sKAOA09::KAU138::MCGREGORTue Sep 27 1994 13:4410
So long Sue.

Thank's for all the help over the years.

We'll definately miss your wit in the conference. 

The parking lot 100 just won't be the same.

	Keep in touch!
	Allan
861.5These memories weren't implanted!POLAR::RUSHTONտ�Tue Sep 27 1994 16:537
    It grief me great gives so that hardly talk I can't.
    
    "No one really knows their termination date anyway"
    
    Korff
    
    Good luck Shawn.
861.6POLAR::RICHARDSONThe Toad Elevating MomentTue Sep 27 1994 17:021
    Good luck at Tyrell Corporation Shawn!
861.7An unknown QuantumtyPOLAR::ROBINSONPBring back the stubbyWed Sep 28 1994 08:138
    
    Sham, may your read circuits always be in sync with your write
          circuits.
    
    Otherwise, we will send the sasquatch who occupies the next cubicle
    over for a visit.
    
    Will you miss R.M.? 
861.8Gone but not forgottenKAOSWS::MOIRWed Oct 12 1994 13:5720
Shawn,

	You leaving reminds me of another apt quote.


	"I know what your're thinking. Did I fire 5 shots or 6.
	 to tell the truth I clean forgot. But this being a Magnun
	 the most powerful handgun in the world and can blow your head
	 clean off. You got to ask yourself...do I feel lucky....
	 Well do you ....PUNK."


	This brings a tear to ones eye.

	All the Luck in the world

Drew



861.9Unannouced to Zelda, during the night Warren had installed a volume knob! KAOFS::J_WEIRThu Oct 13 1994 15:2523
    Ya! well that reminds me of another couple of great quote's, heard
    over a lull in the conversation at the lunch time table.
    
    The first individual was heard to blurt out!
    
    	"Well I haven't held a man in over 2 years"
    
    Unfortunatley no one heard the previous conversation about hockey!
    
    The second one was from a guy who blurted out!
    
    "Ya! well I went out to the driveway and blew my load, all over my
    neighbors wife"
    
    Once again I don't think anyone had heard the previous discussion about
    cleaning the 2 feet of snow off the driveway with a snow blower.
    
    	Both these remarks brought tears to my eye, but not as many as when
    I heard you were leaving. 
    
    You will be missed!
    
         Wally