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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:11.55pt'><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>> </span></span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>…</span></i><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> then I sometimes tend to get a bit annoyed, although I usually manage to hide my displeasure. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Indeed sir? We didn’t know you were capable of that.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sheesh, sensa huma John, oy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All this cool stuff going on all around us, the LIGO results, the gravity science moving faster and farther in the last 5 years than in our previous lifetimes, quantum supremacy (maybe (depending on how you measure it)), all that cool DNA science on a charge, what a marvelous time to live for science and tech guys. I see a hundred things before breakfast that make me grateful to be alive in 2020. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John, we know what annoys you (well, we vaguely suspect it anyway (as you have given us a number of subtle hints (on occasion (continually for the several years)))) but I can’t imagine you or anyone going around like that always (because our mothers warned us your face might stick in that configuration donchaknow) so you must take a break from that emotional state at least occasionally.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So tell us John if you will: what brings joy to your heart please?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>