Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 03:12:13 -0800 From: "John H. DuBois III" To: party Subject: The Armory Party will have been a blast from the... The Armory's Fourteenth Annual February Birthday Party will have been held on Saturday, February 23rd, 2002, starting at 8 o'clock PM. YOU will have been invited, and indeed will have felt compelled to attend after having perused the silly message that constituted said invite. The theme will have been: The Future. For ideas on how to comport oneself according to this theme, you will have wished to have slipped ahead a bit corporeally or otherwise - a few years will have been sufficient, given humanity's rapid acceleration toward the Singularity. If you will not happened to have had a gift for precognition, actual time travel, or precise supratemporal simulation (ah, you will be having recalled the notions of theoretical limits to knowledge that had once held sway!), you will have felt free to have speculated, or alternately have selected a vision of the Future from the past. If you will have needed directions, this will have been resolved by mailing me, or by having pointed a (does this not have induced a snicker?) "browser" at the "url": http://www.armory.com/~spcecdt/directions.html Having felt a bit unpinned, John