Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:17:11 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Oh, if you're going to paint words on a bridge, there's a cetain bridge =
over the beltway in MD that really does need "Surrender Dorothy"  on it.

mjw

>>> eginter at klgai.com 04/03/02 05:25PM >>>
Yes. Someday, very early in the morning of November 11, I'm going to sneak
out onto that big bridge over the beltway, southern side, and paint =
"Smith"
between "Wilson" and "Bridge."

An interesting idea, though, that he might be hanging out in fandom!

"Be kind to strangers, for they may be Lazarus Long in disguise."
--from the notebooks of Erica Ginter

-----Original Message-----
From: Candy Madigan [mailto:candymadigan at mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:06 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

At 08:31 PM 04/02/2002 -0500, you 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.
>--
>People tend to be more aware of direct experience - and I doubt any of us
>will ever be able to experience a millenia.

Not unless someone in this crowd is secretly named Woodrow Wilson Smith.

(It was Smith wasn't it?)

Candy