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   Scott Dorsey to garym@mcgath.com   
   Re: Independence Day   
   29 Jul 24 17:17:07   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Gary McGath   wrote:   
   >On 7/27/24 8:05 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> Keith F. Lynch  wrote:   
   >>> Scott may have said hello to me any number of times, as lots of people   
   >>> do, but if so it was without introducing himself by name.  With my   
   >>> poor eyesight, I can't usually read name badges without getting   
   >>> awkwardly close.  And half the time the name badges are turned   
   >>> backwards anyway.   
   >>   
   >> I'm the guy with long white hair and the Helsinki T-shirt on Saturday.   
   >> Or a "75 years of audio engineering" shirt on Sunday.  I have known   
   >> you for thirty years now.   
   >   
   >It wasn't white 30 years ago. How are people supposed to recognize you   
   >if you keep changing?   
      
   Okay, back in the eighties I looked like this:   
      
   http://www.panix.com/~kludge/kludge_seattle.jpg   
      
   Just as a baseline for those who met me at the first Baltimore worldcon.   
   --scott   
      
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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