from Jed:
... > Well, it hasn't happened yet. If it happens I guess I can write about it. ... I watched the video and read your Lessons from cold fusion archives and from history. Thanks. IMHO, your professed self-doubt is precisely one of the principle reasons I continue to believe you would be very good at assembling a historical account of the CF saga. I think you have acquired a profound understanding of the pitfalls associated with the retelling-of-accounts, of just how subjective and open to personal interpretation the art of "history" really is. At least I know you are thinking about it. That's good enuf for me. I suspect there may come a time when you will feel ready to embark on the project in earnest. Perhaps sooner than you expect! ;-) Changing the subject, I hope I get around to reading Lewan's book soon. Everyone has had good things to say about it. My excuse for not reading it: Insufficient free time. Making final preparations to retire has turned out to consume far more of my personal resources than I had originally thought such an endeavor ought to take. But that's ok. Gotta get it done. The final nail in the coffin occurred last November as the result of a very specific and unpleasant encounter with management, this after enduring a string of prior stress-filled encounters where I continued to hold on to hope that things would eventually sort themselves out. Alas, it didn't. The November encounter made it very clear to me that for the sake of my own personal health and well-being it was time to get the hell out. I'm looking forward to my exit. I have many creative research projects that I would like to tackle, such as in the artistic-creative mediums, but also in specific fields of physics. I love performing theoretical research. I love assembling computer simulations just so that I can be surprised at what I stumble across. I probably have way too many personal projects than I can adequately explore with what time I have left, and that's saying a lot considering the fact that I'll turn 62 this August. I'm still quite young. I may have to do some culling. ;-) My pumpkin date is still a state secret insofar as management is concerned. ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.orionworks.com
