At 4:39 PM -0400 9/14/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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The Big RSA Patent Expiration Composite Party A fundraiser for the Cryptorights Foundation (http://www.cryptorights.org/) September 21, 2000 8PM-2AM
This is going to be great... In theory, at least, one could start in Boston after work at 5:30 EDT on Wednesday, talk through your teeth while munching canapes over evening cocktails at the Hahvid Club dahling, jump on a plane, fly west all night, stay up all the next day, and party all Thursday night in San Francisco. Ending up, of course, on the floor somewhere with your feet in the sky and, um, Xes in your eyes, some 30(?) hours later at 2AM PDT.
Riiight.
Of course, there *are* people threatening to come to Boston from Europe on the 20th, and, having done something that crazy already, *they* might be up for something as biochronically challenging, but not me, nooooo....
I find far more joy in reading a book, eating a meal, drinking a good bourbon, riding my bicycle in Monterey, or hanging out in my recliner and surfing the Net while watching a movie on HBO...than I would in popping MDMA or whatever it is they do and dancing in a trance to some DJ making records go backwards. The fact that _all_ of the so-called music entertainers at the SF event are "trancers" is...symptomatic...of something. I hope they have fun. Feh. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.