25 October 2001

Lain: “The other side is overcrowded. The dead will have nowhere to go.”

In the antiseptic space elevator.

Today, in an effort to take it easy and recover from the last two weeks of sleepless hell, I said to myself: “Self, this is a good time to catch up on your personal email.” So I’ve spent most of the afternoon replying to my unread mail from 1997.

Here’s a nice example:

 From: Mike Dakin <mdakin@mit.edu> To: Nat Friedman <ndf@ALEPH1.MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 11:37:26 EST Hey Nat, Did you find my sock!? I returned/went to sleep at about 4, hence I did not see this until now. I found you, but you were alseep. I should be back later today, or early this evening. I will attempt to find you again. -Mike 

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 From: Nat Friedman <nat@nat.org> To: Mike Dakin <mdakin@mit.edu> Subject: Re: Date: 25 Oct 2001 14:46:58 -0400 Hey Mike, Sorry that it took me so long to reply to this mail. No luck finding the sock so far; perhaps you can supply a description? Regards, Nat 

If you mailed me anytime since 1997, please be patient: I haven’t forgotten you.

Another summer gone.

This is cool.