2003-04-09 10:39:13, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:

>Come on, Nicholas, c'mon! I don't think there's anything to apologize about.
>On the contrary, I for one didn't know about this Rosetta thing and was glad
>to discover about it from your post.

Thank you for some reassuring remarks. Ever since a bad experience at Princeton,
I have felt somewhat "out of joint" intellectually, never really feeling on firm
ground, and sometimes overdo the apologies. Particularly here, where several
subscribers are internationally famous, and justly so, I try to be even more careful.

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(Even to this day, Princeton doesn't allow undergrads to work in the research labs; MIT
is much smarter in that respect, with their UROP: <http://web.mit.edu/urop/>. I really
wanted and badly needed something like that, back in '53. It took about 5 decades to
figure out what went wrong. I'll skip further details.
Nevertheless, life took a different direction, and I have been lucky to have had
first-hand experience with some uncommonly-interesting technological devices.
I was a midnight hacker in 1960, with full approval. No communications, though.)
</further off-topic>

Best regards,

Nicholas Bodley |@| Waltham, Mass.
Opera browser fan/user |@| Crocuses are up!
I detest arrogance.