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[Robert Hettinga]

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At 9:43 am -0500 on 11/16/97, Ryan Lackey wrote:

> Ryan (getting dangerously close to having a working Eternity DDS demo,
> and wondering if FC98 will be on mbone, particularly the solar eclipse,
> since even if he had the money to go, it's in the middle of next
>semester, and disappearing for a week would kind of be difficult, although
>not at all impossible of someone wants to pay for me to go...ahh, but
>there's always next year)

Ding! You rang? Welcome to Random Acts of Kindness, Inc. Our motto: "You never
know when we're going to make your day!"...

Ryan, if you get airfare to Anguilla somehow, we'll find a way to put you
up and feed you. And comp you your conference badge, of course. *But*, you may
have to work (some) for it...

Thank you for playing "Be Careful What You Wish For"... :-).


By the way, the FC98 organizing committee has decided, it appears, that we
can't fight mother nature, much less celestial mechanics, and we're probably
(it might mess up a lot of people's schedules, which is why we say "probably"
right now) just going to skip conference sessions on Thursday so people can go
park a boat (bring lots of dramamine, the waves start in Africa) off
Montserrat(!) or wherever, to see the total eclipse. We're probably also going
to mount an organized (such as it is) official FC98-sanctioned expedition
to do it.


Now, exactly *how* far can a pyroclastic flow go out to sea?...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga


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Robert Hettinga (rah at shipwright.com), Philodox
e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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