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Re:Acme Klein Bottle by 31337Logic on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:56AM (#39262487)
Hey Cliff, it’s crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide!

Thanks for being a truly great guy. Your passion and curiosity over the decades has been nothing short of infectious... in a good way. ;^)

Take care!

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Re:Acme Klein Bottle by CliffStoll on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:30PM (#39263851)
Hmmm: I know that phrase all too well! But where was I associated with it? Whoever you are, I suspect we met at one of these places:

A whiteboard at Newfield Wireless around 2015 (amongst LTE geolocation wizards)?

Space Telescope Science Institute during the pre-launch doldrums (I scribbled it on one of the VAX-780's)?

While an exchange scholar in Nanjing in 1980, I tried to translate this into Mandarin, to the confusion of my astronomical colleagues at Purple Mountain Observatory.

Either way, thank you for your smile this morning! - Cliff on a windy Monday morning in Oakland, California.

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