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Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC

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drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:

>  > "Ordering burritos from my SPARC"
>  > http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos
>
> Looks like La Coste?a is still there:
>
> http://costena.com/
>
> De

For several years, I lived Mountain View (Shoreline @ Central Xpwy) and ate
at least twice a week at La Costeña (or one of the other fine
establishments run by the same family around town).

One of my first exercises in CGI was a web-page that allowed you to fill
out your burrito order.  I either could not, or chose not to get the
source to xburrito.  (Based on my personality at the time, I'd have been
likely to eschew starting from their code, just because the educational
value of writing it myself would have been my primary motivation).  I
had my own fax modem.  What was the German tool-chain that worked with
ghostscript to implement a print-to-fax queue?  I've forgotten the name of it.

Barely related from the "shockingly small world" department:

For the last 21 years, I've been living in Mexico, the last six in a
mountain town about 3 hours west of Mexico City.

There's a guy who runs a food stand here in the municipal market who
struck up a conversation (in English) with me (my ancestry goes back to
when the Anglos met the Saxons).  It turns out, he had worked at both La
Bamba and later La Costeña during the era when I was eating there, so
there is a 100% certanity that he made my food at least once.

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Ordering burritos from my SPARC Marco Scholz <tool@disroot.org> - 2021-01-25 10:20 +0000
  Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2021-01-25 11:53 -0600
    Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-01-25 19:37 +0000
    Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC lawrence <lawrence@cluon.com> - 2021-01-28 11:42 -0600
      Re: Ordering burritos from my SPARC Marco Scholz <tool@disroot.org> - 2021-01-29 10:36 +0000

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