conference call (fwd)

[Syd Bauman]

> My apologies about the time--part of the confusion probably arises
> from the state of Indiana's unwillingness to join the rest of the
> US in adopting daylight savings. We're on permanent Eastern
> standard time, ... As a result, no one really knows what time it is
> in Indiana (in several senses).

Indeed. But if you ask me (and I realize no one did, but I'm
expressing sympathy as I suffered similar headaches when I lived in
Arizona) the rest of the US is nuts, and states like Indiana and
Arizona have the right idea. The civilized world agreed on a time
zone system to try to make scheduling things (even in close vicinity
-- a difference of 1° of longitude is 4 minutes) easier, why do
we have to muck it up by pretending to jump around the clock an hour
(or the surface of the earth 15° of longitude) twice a year?

Anyway, sorry to have missed you Christian and Tomaz. As you weren't
present to defend yourselves you were appointed co-chairs of the new
committee responsible for convincing the UN to endow the TEI. We are
expecting no less than 2 million euros in small bills by the October
member's meeting. Get to work.