Hi John! Extra points for USian :) Welcome back
Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 06:05, John Sundman via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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