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did anyone go to this thing? If so, how was it?
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Looks like it's just starting today, oh Chaotic Clock. 
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Oh, you're right. On both accounts :)
Well, if any of you go, be sure to give us a little report.
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every time I see these things with all the highfalutin' language that returns a null content semantically I get really cynical.
I know what you mean TEd. I just got invited to a workshop on "Developing Clinical Improvement and Rapid Cycle Change Skills" ??????
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I went to see the talks by Oliver Sacks and George Martin. Sacks is a wonderful writer but his talk was a little on the light side. Sir George Martin's presentation was very nicely put together.
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I have read two of Dr Sacks' books -- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and The Anthropologist on Mars. I found the first better than the latter and both to be somewhat self-congratulatory in tone, if nonetheless informative and enjoyable.
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oliver sack's autobiography(curious called) Uncle Tungsten is excellent-- i highly recommend it. it gives you great understanding to his lifes work.
(in it he mentions he is sort of dullard in a notable family--and gives a few hints who thinks the bright bulbs in the family are.. including his first cousin Abba Eban!)
I went to a lecture, and got my autographed.
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I went to a lecture, and got my autographed.
Good Lord, of Troy, don't keep us in suspense! Got your WHAT autographed?
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my copy of Uncle Tungsten of course.
i think the first chapter of the book is available on line--there is a link from the Oliver Sack's home page-(maintained by some devoted fan, not the man himself)
he still lives in NY--in one of the more remote parts of the city, City Island. City Island is one of three (out of more than a dozen) east river (not a real river, really a tidal straight) island that is habitated (by the living)
it really has the feeling of a small new england town (its been featured in serveral TV shows--one L&O criminal intent- that 'used' the true story of some boys who 'borrowed' a boat, attempted to row to Hart island (NYC potters field) and drowned. one thing i like about L&O is, its really shot on location in NYC--not all of NYC is manhattan,-- and parts are very rustic. City Island is also home to some of NY's best sea food restaurants. many years ago, i went clamming on the beach there.
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habitated (by the living) This struck me as funny! Is there one that's a cemetery, then?
clamming on the beach I cannot imagine this; what do you do if one clam(p)s down on your finger?
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