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 17:25:50 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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