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At 9:10 PM -0400 on 2/26/00, R. A. Hettinga postscripted on cypherpunks,
vamping on his famous french lefty-philosophy kvetch there a little while
back:
> [Who's had enough of things *french* for a while, especially heavy
> low-bridgedeck *french* catamarans, with goofy *french* power plugs,
> chartered from the *french* side of otherwise nice Carribbean islands
> with *french* phone systems, which don't have information operators,
> not even ones which speak *french*... The *french* skipper was nice,
> though. Except that she spoke *french* all the damn time...]
:-).
Oh, okay, okay, so, in the (cold!) light of day back here in Roslindale,
I hereby relent, viz.:
[Who also had a *great* time with -- and not necessarily in spite of --
same, once we finally got to Anguilla, Road Harbor, and Sandy Ground. It
turns out that even though we were a day late, and not completely because
of the above, we *still* got there before everyone we were supposed to
pick up in Anguilla, so life did not, actually, suck after all. I'd even
charter from the same company, and, in a pinch, even the same *french*
:-) boat, and certainly with the same skipper again, now that I know what
to expect.]
All that said, thanks so much to everyone who came out during the week
for a sail, snorkel, banana daiquiri, WaveLan hack, etc., on what became,
in classic Hettinga neologism, the IBUC Bearer Boat.
In particular, thanks to Kuatro's skipper Caroline; to Steve, Fearghas,
Paul, and, of course, my wife Carol, for helping make the boat go; to
Jason and Kevin for the almost-all-night combination
e$/IBUC-rant-and-WaveLan-hacking binge; to Amy for her scintillating
repartee; to Vince and Samantha for demonstrating the proper form for
riding an anchor bridle in a mild current; to Fearghas again for taking a
really great picture of Carol actually sailing Kauatro (which can
actually sail, sometimes) at a whopping 7kts, a picture which is now my
Mac G3's desktop, (and for the perfectly ghastly one of me floating in
Little Bay grinning my ass off, proving that there's more diet to come);
to Jane for keeping all of us in line; to Duncan for swimming to the
beach in Mead's Bay so we could be there just in time for me to accost
poor Dr. Rivest coming out for his constitutional; to Griffin for proving
that you really *can* get TCP/IP on a boat at Prickly Pear key; to
*another* Kevin for helping us repeat that performance on Sandy Ground
*much* later that night; to Dr. Syverson for once again providing the
necessary professional courtesy so that the SEALs didn't sink yet another
catamaran full of financial crypto people; to Gwen Hastings for coming
aboard to take the Anguilla rheumatiz cure; to Declan and Christen(?) for
testing my new snorkeling equipment; and, once again, many many times
again, to my wonderful wife Carol, who was a saint through all of the
above, at personal risk to life, limb, and, occasionally, sanity.
Finally, to the people across the harbor in the very large monohull, with
their *own* center-console *tender*, who saw fit to, um, borrow, our own
dingy, stranding 5 folks on the beach at midnight in the process, I say
many, many, dirty words. In french. :-).
See you next year at FC00, Anguilla or not, and, hopefully, with another
IBUC Bearer Boat, which was pretty damn cool, french or not, and even
though it was a lot of work to do at times.
Cheers,
RAH
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The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
