Thank you, Thaths. I very much appreciate your endorsement. Everyone else: Hear him! Hear him!
Kind regards, jrs On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM Thaths via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > Welcome back, John. I'm a fan of your newsletter. > > S. > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2025, 6:45 AM Venkat Mangudi - Silk via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Welcome back, John. >> >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2025, 6:55 PM John Sundman via Silklist < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello friends, old and new. >>> >>> If I remember correctly, Udhay first invited me to Silklist in 2008, >>> around the time that I wrote an essay about *Christopher Kelty's Two >>> Bits: The cultural significance of free software, *in which Udhay and >>> the list are mentioned. >>> >>> Over the years I mostly lurked, although I have chimed in at random >>> intervals. Then, about 4 years ago, the email address I had used for the >>> list became misconfigured somehow and I decided to not bother to resurrect >>> it because it had become overrun with spam, and so I fell off the list. >>> >>> I'm happy that as of today I'm again a member (with a different email >>> addy!). >>> >>> I'm a 72 year old USian novelist & essayist. For the last 30 years I've >>> resided on the island of Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts, although I've >>> sometimes taken lodgings elsewhere for work. My first job in 'tech' was at >>> Data General in 1980, and since then I've been a technical writer, manager >>> of writers and manager of software engineering at ~20 places, mostly >>> startups (Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Boston/Cambridge, NYC, etc.) I've >>> also been a firefighter, construction worker, long-haul truck driver and >>> random other things. >>> >>> I post a couple of essays/month, many of them touching on the >>> intersection of science, technology & society, on my substack* Sundman >>> figures it out!* >>> >>> https://johnsundman.substack.com/ >>> >>> I look forward to reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> jrs >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Silklist mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >>> >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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