Hello Michael,

Thanks for the well wishes. You know Larry only spoke for 15 minutes and the entire show is only 64 minutes so I'm a little surprised at your cutting edge thoughts. But who knows maybe a lot of people only listen to those first few minutes? Not really, my personal contacts show otherwise. And gosh, they are really nice people.

I don't think you'd like AGU too much either as those orals last for well over an hour, even though each person only gets 12 minutes. I like to hear the whole of anything, not just a snippet. Larry had three parts in that show and maybe if you had listened to all of it you might have felt differently when he finished. It will be on for a long time, maybe you could time it so you bypass me and yet hear the rest of what he had to say. And I'm sure you missed the part when I spoke about Dr. Earthquake Prediction down south too. Anyone who knows anything about EP should know who I was talking about. Kiss. Kiss.

And honestly, I'm terribly disappointed you couldn't hold on for a couple more minutes to hear what I had to say. After all of these years, all 7 of them and here we are. Oh, maybe you've forgotten. I never forget anything. You should send me an e-mail and let me know what it was seven years ago that I may have done to offended you. I remember the post series perfectly on SGE and I don't recall saying anything that seemed offensive, but if I did say something objectionable perhaps I should apologize. I know I quit posting there for about a year after that, yet today it seems rather insignificant. Oh, maybe I committed a social faux pas. Goodness Gracious!

Did you read the magazine article first? Or since?

Petra