From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:37:40 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Depends on what you and your lover are doing. If you're filling out tax
forms...well, Steve knows my dentist and why I'd rather spend an hour with
him, even if he is working on my mouth while we talk about Star Trek. He may
come to a WSFA meeting sometime. And if anyone needs a really good--and
gentle--dentist, have I got a guy for you!

Erica

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:36 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

> Concerning age, history, etc, one needs a proper appreciation for the
> awe inspiring depths of geological time.  How can a single century be
> considered a long time when there have been so many millions of them?
> And when the universe is still so very young, with a future far longer
> than its past?
>
> Some people were impressed by my computer history exhibit.  But I have
> fossils more than ten million times older than those PDP-11 manuals,
> punched cards, and Nixie tubes.  And yet those fossils all came from
> the most recent ten percent of our planet's history.

Time is not all the same.  An hour with your lover is not the same as an
hour with your dentist.

And for those of us interested in astrophysics, planetary time is all
very much "almost yesterday".

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."