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Subject: [Leica] I've recovered
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:57:34 -0800
References: <TtzP1n00k0AFV7C01tzQRT> <530405F4.60009@cox.net>

The Computer History Museum is in Mountain View, CA. It has the largest 
collection of computer artifacts in the world. What is on display is 
something like between 5 and 10 percent of the collection. Yet it is an 
incredibly large display; if you walk through every single gallery you will 
have walked a quarter mile.

If you want a capsule history of the Museum, here is a link to a Wikipedia 
article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_History_Museum

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Feb 18, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Herbert,
> 
> Very happy you are feeling better.  If the winter weather plus the flu 
> won't get you down I don't know what will.  Plus, I get sick whenever I 
> have to take antibiotics.  I had to take cipro for 30 days year before 
> last.  If we have a terrorist anthrax attack I'll take the anthrax, 
> thanks.  So where is the Computer History Museum?
> 
> Ken
> 
> On 2/18/2014 11:59 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
>> Some time ago my wife and I came down with fever, a cough and a liquid 
>> nose. independent doctors (her?s and mine) after a chest X-rays that ?did 
>> not rule out pneumonia? were prescribed the same anti-biotic. We were 
>> sick for about three weeks. It was quite profound: my weight is down by 
>> six percent, and for a few days, you could say that I was clinically 
>> depressed.
>> 
>> While the ?quacks? wouldn?t commit themselves: we both had flu shots and 
>> they said there were no statistics on people getting flu after having the 
>> shots, I?m convinced that it had to have been flu. It was too profound.
>> 
>> The effect  of the temporary depression was that I couldn?t communicate 
>> with friends. While last Saturday, I felt that I had recovered 
>> sufficiently to do my regular shift at the Computer History Museum, which 
>> was participating in a 45 minute lecture demonstration of the Babbage 
>> Difference Engine, followed a quarter hour later by a one-hour guided 
>> tour of the Museum, the very next day I felt as follows:
>> 
>> I couldn?t bring myself to phone my geocaching buddy, a friend since 
>> 1986. I went almost under protest to a performance of Die Fledermaus and 
>> sat there wishing I were somewhere else. My wife had organized a party of 
>> friends for dinner after the performance, and I just opted out; asked to 
>> be dropped off at home. I just couldn?t talk to people.
>> 
>> The next day, yesterday, I was over it. Strange.
>> 
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 650-326-8204
>> 
>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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