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[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

> At 12:54 PM 4/2/2010, you wrote:
> 
> >Ed Roberts dies.
> >
> >http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001616-56.html
> 
> 
> Only 68?  What was the cause?
> 
Son, I'm not going to worry about it.  If I reach 56 (less than a year and a half from now), I'll have the record for longevity for anybody with this Y-chromosome in recorded history.  And by my standards, my life has barely begun.  Ed started what some might call the personal computer industry, then pulled back and became a doctor.  A profession I respect.  No doctors in my family (a PhD does not make you a physician), just several nurses.  Gram, Mom, an aunt I won't name lest I call up her spirit.  No nurses in my generation, so I had to marry one, my third, La Esposa.  (And my first wife has since become a nurse, but I can't remarry her legally, so the law can go eat its own leg, since we will remarry and La Esposa approves, which is all that matters).  My body is deteriorating badly, I may need nurses.  (two nurses is better than one).  (My first wife is recently widowed, she was married to a guy closer to me than a genetic brother could be -- they introduced me to La Esposa (one of Mike's ex-lovers) when I came east almost two decades back).  I grant neither any g-d nor government the authority to decide who or how many I can be married to, nor what genders (all of my wives over the decades have been heterosexual and so am I, but we've all experimented enough to make sure it's a preference, not a reflex).

Yeah, I'm a weirdo.  Extremely aware of my mortality but will not get obsessed about my health.  Would rather play with my computers and with the women I love (not necessarily in that order).  Yeah, I take the medicine prescribed for the blood pressure.  My favorite movies are "Mamma Mia" and "My Favorite Year" despite being a science fiction geek since before Star Trek premiered.
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