| Friends in Verona |
| [50728] by "DangerousType" (s216641-1.savvis-internet.usdnvr5-bsn.savvis.net)
on Mon 08 Aug 2005 14:56:51
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My friends will be in Verona next week and need to know a great place to eat. Bragging about Andrea, I told them we would give her the name of the perfect place. Pretty please... |
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| Culture envy |
| [50602] by "DangerousType" (dialup-85-25.colorado.edu)
on Tue 02 Aug 2005 22:06:35
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So I'm out of vacation time and craving the sand and the sea, the hot summer sun and some R & R. Then I hear that Americans average 14 vacation days a year and almost never take them all - as opposed to Italians who average 45 vacation days a year and soak up every minute. Tell me where you to go "get away". Where do you really want to go? I'd like to return to the temples and pyramids of Tikal ~ where I was an exchange student long ago ~or~ someplace where the water's so clear I can see forever into the depth of it and hear the sound of tropical fish crunching whatever it is they chew off the rocks. Ahhhhhhh...I've got a rabid case of wanderlust and am lost in a curius dream. Tell me a story of great adventure or of curious dreams in your own back yards. |
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| It's ok... |
| [50542] by "FrereKhan" (84-73-55-250.dclient.hispeed.ch)
on Thu 28 Jul 2005 18:16:42
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Drop the spoon, Frank! |
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| The Future |
| [50512] by "Rob Pfeifer" (dsl-210-211-88-042.qld.veridas.net)
on Sat 23 Jul 2005 10:01:56
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(of Last Cereal).
I am very interested to see how it will turn out.
Rob |
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| Recapitulation |
| [50511] by "Rob Pfeifer" (dsl-210-211-88-042.qld.veridas.net)
on Sat 23 Jul 2005 09:53:39
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How interesting to look back two, three pages of board and as many years into history.
I dropped in momentarily to lament a moment of angst with an Italian girl and departed again - and now, two years later I read the reply.
So strange - the internet as a time capsule.
I have in a sense been Away From Keyboard - for a little while I put my life on hold. I worked as hard as the law allowed, earning money to break my way free of medicine and forge a new career in physics. So far it seems to be working.
Then I worked just as hard to learn the physics it was assumed I already knew, while taking courses with people who had been studying the subject for years.
Now it's time to pick up the pieces of my life and resume something like normalcy, in a country 13,500 miles from home, a student again at the age of 26, and suddenly I no longer feel as if I know where to begin. I've lost the pulse of the city. I don't know where to go for a good time, and I'm only just starting to remember what it is I want to do.
And once again, that old restlessness has started up. The itch that says, you're missing something. There's something else you need to do. I want to get in the car and drive. Behind the wheel it fades - I'm going somewhere. But am I going to, or merely running from?
I'm not stupid - I know what the itch is called now. Its name is stasis, and it's time to grow again.
Life is lived in dynamic equilibrium. Stability exists only through change.
Rob |
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| Now |
| [50460] by "FrereKhan" (217-162-172-198.dclient.hispeed.ch)
on Wed 20 Jul 2005 17:29:30
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| 100 years after Einstein |
| [50189] by "Rob Pfeifer" (dsl-210-211-88-042.qld.veridas.net)
on Thu 14 Jul 2005 08:15:49
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first published his special theory of relativity. I gave my first lecture at a conference last week. Do you think they'll still be talking about it in 100 years' time?
How are you all? How are your lives? Andrea - GZB tells me of your mailserver woes. I am also reachable at pfeifer at physics.uq.edu.au. Or here, now - I am back. I am glad to see the demons are troubling you less.
GZB - still burning. You have burned the present and the past, but it takes all of us to burn the future. How are the wonderful, wise men you work with? And are you still collecting buffaloes?
FrereKahn - as ever an enigmatic presence. Well met, Brother Kahn.
Life grows, and we all get better at it with time. And then... we have to start all over again. You'd think we'd find it easier with practice, would you not?
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| [50156] by "FrereKhan" (67-40-135-182.dnvr.qwest.net)
on Tue 12 Jul 2005 22:44:55
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Tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed when the ocean met the sky.
...when time and life shook hands and said goodbye.
...when the earth folded on itself and said "Good luck..."
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| [49953] by "FrereKhan" (67-40-135-182.dnvr.qwest.net)
on Mon 04 Jul 2005 23:00:23
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http://www.eyemachine.co.uk/em_emworld_2004_04_04.htm |
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| July 4, 1999 - Happy B-Day |
| [49952] by "DangerousType" (dialup-86-114.colorado.edu)
on Mon 04 Jul 2005 22:23:47
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A toast to you, my friend, on your 6 years of penetrating satire, cryptographics, and Community. Fireworks are actually blasting outside my window to commemorate this Birthday of sorts. ~*?*rebirth*?*~
I feel so much wiser than the person you met in the Habbo Hotel. My brain wiring slightly dulled by the years but/and still shooting bottle rocket synapses at the right stimuli. Thanks for occasionally providing that!
Took this picture in a moquita bar with a NASA rocket scientist and a woman who sells pre-packaged cremation packets complete with your own bronze urn. Ahhhhh...what a great life! |
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