@ ABQ HALSEY

Makes me wonder what people are going to say about you when you die... and how that will make your loved ones feel.

@ Everyone

Yah, Gen is purposely weird... but I can't begin to imagine what this is doing to Gen's mind right now. They had this whole alchemical thing going on.

I never met either of them, I've only known of them through Gen's work and the stories of a friend of mine who Gen took under wing. I have to imagine that having your wife, your younger wife who should outlive you... christ.

I hear they're working on that speed of light thing...

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2754172,00.html

Does anyone know who won that contest? What that girl even looks like? (Off the top of your head, no GooFu.)

Right, didn't think so.

But everyone knows who she is, or at least what she looks like.

My money's on this being planned by her- okay, her Mom- because now she's famous.

Scandal is celebrity.

[Or if not it should have been. Brilliant!]

Wow. I haven't use "popcorn" (that's how we dialed in my Mom's house) for years. I never thought this would go away, though, even though with the advent of cellphones and the intertubes everyone is synched to the same atomic clock somewhere in Boreneo.

Which bothers me, actually. I don't like the idea that you can't fudge what time it is with other people anymore. Some take sadistic pride in knowing that you're one minute late. (Don't pshaw me on this one, I've worked for some real jerks).

In the past you could always say "I've got 7:56."

But not anymore. Now we're all on the same clock... and it creeps me out.

At least back in the day, you had t make a concious effort to be on "popcorn" time.