the real test is whether the Klein bottle business got a sympathy bump in sales
It likely will. Those of us who want a Klein bottle but haven't yet ordered one are reminded of mortality, procrastination, and missed chances.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
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#152Oh we already mailed the letter: "Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Stoll Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded or reported missing in action"
Oh my, but you know more than you can guess. About a year ago, my wife passed on. While deep in grief, I began receiving letters from financial institutions and banks that began, "Dear Mr/Ms Stoll, we offer our sincere condolences ..." How can a corporation have "sincere condolences"? They're the last place I'd go for comfort or sincerity.
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#153> Mark Twain once wrote, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I never expected to field-test the quote personally. Hat tip to you, Sir! And glad to hear you are alive and kickin', and haven't lost your sense of humor.
Hat tip accepted, AA!
smiles, -Cliff
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#154What a wonderful Easter story. Glad to hear you‘re alive again. Might want to mail the pope; maybe there’s some cross-advertising opportunity there. Their target audience is a bit different but they have enormous reach!
Funny you should mention it, Nail of the Earth. My friend Guy Consolmagno (oh, the stories I could tell - we were in grad school together, and he became the director of the Vatican Observatory) is taking one of my Klein bottles to Pope Leo next week. Yikes! -Cliff
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#155This happened to Michael O. Church a few years ago. One of the YCs started a rumor that he died in some weird scheme to steal data. It didn’t work, and he tweeted a few minutes later to say he wasn’t dead.
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#156Dear Cliff, I'm terribly sorry to hear of your passing, but am pleased that you have since gotten better. Cheers!
Dear Zombie Cliff, thanks for not eating me for my cranium is devoid of matter.
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#157Cliff Stoll on HN? How did I miss that?!?!!? What an honor! And may I say, I love your work, kind sir!!!!!
Thanks Egonic Axe - Oh, I'm a long time Hacker News lurker ... often reading, seldom posting. Something has to be pretty curious to tempt me out of my cave.
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#158Hmm, I don't believe you. In order to prove you're alive please make an updated Youtube video with a tour of your crawlspace warehouse.
.. while taking a drink from a Klein bottle and holding three fingers in front of your face at the same time.
You’re planely projecting something.
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#159Cliff Stoll didn’t pass away, he merely entered a non-orientable phase state. written mere inches from my klein bottle. glad to see you here Cliff.
Smiles & one-sided cheers to you, Serph. Sure hope your Kleinbot is still working properly.
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#160Pardon the interruption but ... who are you? Your bio is empty.
Bio is probably empty because for a certain age of HN readers, he's already well known and regarded, but over time as the HN population grows it's obviously less likely to be the case.
I'd argue that age isn't even relevant. I'd say that there's a significant overlap between readers of "The Cuckoo's Egg" and HN folk, whether young or old.
I read it in my early teens.