[FRIAM] Nick has gone dark

[Nicholas Thompson]

Steve, Glad your situation is not serious.  PCT not well, either, but call
if nearby and we'll see.

I am receiving my gmail, but I am hamfisted with the interface so won't say
much.

n

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:35 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> Mary and I are reading a biography of HD Thoreau and I feel like I have a
> better bead on who the heck NST is from getting a slightly better bead on
> that aspect of small town New England's history/perspective.    Neither of
> us have spent more than glancing careens through New England population
> centers in our lives.
>
> We were on our way to visit a friend on the coast of Maine with an
> intention of crashing Nick's front porch party on the way by, for some
> egg-salad sandwiches when Mary's back went sideways.  We've been doing
> urgent care/medical imaging/accupuncture/physical therapy instead.   She's
> recovering well and may likely avoid surgery.
>
> It is just as well with COVID spiking again... we were planning an Amtrak
> run supplemented by a rental car and might have been able to avoid the
> worst of the gambit ( not so much our own risk, but the risk of stirring
> pots best left under-stirred and becoming vectors ourselves ).
>
> I read that Amtrak style travel clocks in at 1/2 the carbon footprint of
> air-travel... I'm surprised it is not better.  In either case, it doesn't
> fit well into my aspiration of joining (spiritually) the 2000 Watt Society
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society>.   The more formidable
> target of a 500W Society (to achieve a carbon-neutral humanity with lots of
> assumptions) doesn't likely leave any room for long-distance travel unless
> it is roughly by-foot (bring back the Mormon Handcart
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_pioneers#Travel_conditions>?)
> Maybe DaveW can get a friend to haul him into his favorite hot-spring that
> way without the noise and erosion and fumes of an ATV?
> On 9/7/21 2:14 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
>
> My domain has expired this week too and my email account stopped to work,
> but I was able to renew it. Hope you are online again soon!
>
> -J.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> Date: 9/7/21 19:46 (GMT+01:00)
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: [FRIAM] Nick has gone dark
>
> I fried my network adapter, so I will have no network connectivity at
> least until friday.  Possibly, longer if it turns out to be a
> software problem.  Didn't want anybody to think I didn't love them.  If you
> need to talk, best to call me at 413-477-6602.  God knows I don't have
> anything else to do.
>
> Nick
>
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