I just got an email from my grandfather talking about how the world will end in 2012 and that Obama is the antichrist. This is why I don't like to visit my Mom's side of the family for holidays.
On the one hand, the world is always ending and being reborn. William Gibson talks about how the world did end in his novel All Tomorrow's Parties, and none of the characters noticed. On the other hand, I don't think that's what he means.
Personally, I keep my calendar as a text file in this format:
(start file) 2009 mar sun 1 event tue 3 08:30 event2
sun 8 whatever fri 20 20:00 la dee dah wed 25 and so forth
apr [etc] may [etc]
2010 [etc] (end file)
This allows me to save reminders to myself indefinitely far into the future. You could set up some similar calendar, and forward his email back to him without comment, perhaps cc'd to various friends of his, on January 1st, 2013.
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Personally, I keep my calendar as a text file in this format:
(start file)
2009
mar
sun 1 event
tue 3 08:30 event2
sun 8 whatever
fri 20 20:00 la dee dah
wed 25 and so forth
apr
[etc]
may
[etc]
2010
[etc]
(end file)
This allows me to save reminders to myself indefinitely far into the future. You could set up some similar calendar, and forward his email back to him without comment, perhaps cc'd to various friends of his, on January 1st, 2013.
If you were a real bastard.
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