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Various things

Howdy,

Jessyka wrote: "i also would love to hear "i painted my name" live, although i
doubt that will ever happen.  *sigh*".  _I Painted My Name_ performed live was
a mystical experience.  It soared, it flew, it transported us to a bright,
sunny hillside in the spring, after a light rainstorm.  Well, that's where it
took me, anyway.  I'm pretty sure I saw a few of you there, too. :-)

Nostradamus was a putz.  Make hundreds of vaguely worded statements, and you,
too, can be considered a prophet when one of them happens to bear some tenuous
relationship to current events.  Doesn't anyone take statistics anymore?  What
do they teach them at those schools?  (That's a quote, and this whole paragraph
is meant to be partly humorous, not angry, in case the tone isn't clear.)

Marc said "It would have been understandable if that is what Chris said".
Please note that I specifically said "*some* of Chris's thoughts" and "along
the lines of".  I was noting the similarity and rephrasing it, not quoting him.

I am going to try to remain silent on this topic from here on out.  Emotions
are too high, and the email format too cold, to really communicate effectively
here, I think.  At least, it seems to me that some people have misunderstood
what I was trying to say.  Anita, if my post was one that upset you, I deeply
apologize, and please consider that for some of us, holding horror at arm's
length and intellectualizing about it is a defense mechanism; a way of
processing what happens until it feels safe to let the emotions go.  Again, I
am sorry if I contributed to your anguish.  I believe I have managed to reach
everyone I know in NYC (I guess that's just human, to feel that surge of relief
when the guy next to you takes the bullet.  Survivors' guilt, I think they call
it.), and I hope that your loved ones made it through all right.

Somehow, I have to get back to doing work today.  Call me crazy, but I don't
think my 5pm flight this afternoon to Boston is actually going to go anywhere.

Peace, hope and love,
-- 
Don Smith                    Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
donaldas at umich_edu                          http://xte.mit.edu/~dasmith/

"At first I said to myself, 'serves America right, you ugly and selfish
America,' but after seeing what was going on the TV, I cried,"
                  -- Jarunant Nakatong, owner of a Bangkok travel agency. 
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