-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: sexta-feira, 15 de Fevereiro de 2002 08:07 To: all Subject: Newsletter + your Friday's Special
A STAR Newsletter is born!
It is the brand new product of IFIP and 6 of its member societies in Central-East Europe, a region with a serious IT potential where IFIP's members are in the driver's seat of the Information Society. The IT STAR initiative is destined to expand and this Newsletter will herald its achievements. Our Newsletter is definitely important to our regional members+ other IFIP members --ACM, IEEE CS, CEPIS-- with activities on this regional turf. Hopefully the wider IT community would also find it useful.
Click here >>> http://www.ifip.or.at/it_star/NL1.pdf for the February issue (which is the best - and only one - so far :-) and here>>> http://www.ifip.or.at/it_star for the IT STAR web site and to observe this ONE SMALL STEP FOR IFIP AND ITS PARTNERS AND ONE GIANT LEAP FOR THE REGION*
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* APROPOS, when Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" statement but followed it by several remarks, usual com traffic between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark "Good luck Mr. Gorsky." Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs. Over the years many people questioned Armstrong as to what the "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled.
On July 5, 1995 in Tampa Bay FL, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong. This time he finally responded. Mr. Gorsky had finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question. When he was a kid, he was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit a fly ball, which landed in the front of his neighbor's bedroom windows. His neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky.
As he leaned down to pick up the ball, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky.
"Sex! You want sex?! You'll get sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!" ---- Have a great weekend!
----------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 www: http://www.ifip.or.at/