sig (was Re: [rescue] IBM RS/6K 40P?)

[wrmartin at verizon.net]

Hmmm.  The famous picture.  And I was only about 200,000 miles off.

Great quote!

Thanks,
Bill Martin
> 
> From: William Barnett-Lewis <wlewis at mailbag.com>
> Date: 2003/02/03 Mon AM 07:46:57 EST
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: sig (was Re: [rescue] IBM RS/6K 40P?)
> 
> >This is more than a bit OT, but I feel compelled to ask:
> 
> >The quote in your signature - I'm just a dumb retired engineer, so I don't do poetry >well.  I thought I followed that quote until I got to the unfurled flag.
> >I was getting images of a winter night, with snow on the ground, and lots of silver >blue/gray and black silhouettes of leafless trees and such.  Then came
> >the flag.  Are we in a military burial ground on a winter night?  Elucidation, please.
> 
> It's from a song about the moon landings. She wrote it in the 70's when
> it looked like it might be "awhile" before we got back. It was sung at a
> Challenger memorial service and it was in that context that I was using
> it. 
> 
> The whole can be found here:
> http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/filk/hopeeyri.htm
> 
> But I did decide it was too obscure and changed my sig again.
> 
> >Bill Martin
> 
> William 
> -- 
> For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
> relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
> Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report.
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