Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:52:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paging Rod Serling...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.net> wrote:
> I've pleased to know that they liked it, and really do appreciate
> your keeping track of these anniversaries.  Would you mind
> continuing to do so and posting them to the list?

I'm glad someone appreciates it.  I've mentioned everything from
the 40th anniversary of Lost in Space to the 0th anniversary of
the awakening of Julian West (from an 1887 novel), to the 100th
anniversary of Special Relativity, but seldom get any feedback.

I am a timebinder.  I like to keep track of past and future events.  I
think it's interesting that if WSFA does host the 2011 Worldcon, that
the "old" convention center will have been built seven years after one
DC Worldcon, and torn down seven years before the next one.  And that
22 years after *not* hosting the 1960 Worldcon "Capicon 60," that
the club reused its name for a relaxacon -- and that 22 years after
*that*, I put directions to it online.  (The corresponding map has
not yet been put online.  I think it would be cool to wait another
22 years from then (21 from now) before placing it online.)

I think it's incredibly cool to take WSFA minutes on paper purchased
for that purpose fifty years ago, even though whoever bought it will
never know.  In the spirit of "pay it forward," I hope that in another
50, 100, or 200 years, someone will do something that I would consider
incredibly cool, even though I might not be around to know about it.

I still have some Alexis cartoons that haven't been used.  I will pass
them along to the next Journal editor.  One of them involves the 17
year cicadas.  I hope future Journal editors will hold onto it until
2021 when the cicadas return, and print it then.

> Could you ask your coworker if commas should be inside or outside of
> quotations?

I said he's the only one who *cares*, not the only one who *knows*.

In American English, commas go inside the quote marks.  (In British
English, outside.)  But nobody is likely to complain if you do
it wrong.