[ExI] another fun story, part four of two

[ilsa]

We all knew each other so well back in the beginning of this group. I'm so
glad to be healthy and happy and looking forward to your messages and my
prayers and energy go out to those on both sides of the veil

I do a little writing from time to time and hope to put together a memoir
my teacher picked a title and so I've been working on it for about 30 years
I've chapters here and there and many files on my internet Mac it would be
lovely to share some of this with all y'all is there ever possibility that
some of us could meet in person for a coffee or cosmopolitan?
Smile
Miss ilsa

Ilsa Bartlett
Institute for Rewiring the System
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 7:35 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>  I don't look a Facebook that often, but Rudy was hawking a book there
> last week.
>
> Damian and Vernor Vinge were both tragic losses.
>
> Keith
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > The pleasant memories of an evening with Damien Broderick and Rudy
> Rucker led me to discover that Damien had passed (damn.)  This caused me to
> become worried about Rudy, who is about the same age as Damien, so I looked
> into that.  The good professor is alive and well as far as the internet
> knows, but there was a comment about his having suffered a stroke in 2008.
> He recovered, but the experience led to some deep introspection.  He was
> only 61 yrs then.  Warranties on life’s subsystems begin to expire in one’s
> seventh decade (how well I understand that.)  One is never sure how much
> time is left on the old game clock.
> >
> >
> >
> > After his stroke, during recovery at home, Rucker asked himself what
> were his top priorities in life, what did he want to do most.  He asked
> himself if he had time to write only one more book, what would he write
> about?
> >
> >
> >
> > As many of us might do, he chose to write an autobiography.  His is
> called Nested Scrolls.
> >
> >
> >
> > I ordered a copy and have started reading.  That man has TALENT!  He is
> a most compelling writer.  Once in a very long while you meet a person like
> that, a true polymath: he is good at everything he does, good enough with
> language to sell his words, great cook, artist, mathematician, computer
> scientist, great conversationalist, easy to be around, super nice guy.  Any
> good writer’s best work is often his memoirs (examples are many) or
> fictionalized versions, in novel form (examples are even many-er) but it is
> easy to tell when a good writer is writing a topic he knows so well,
> because he was there.
> >
> >
> >
> > spike
> >
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