Apologies

[Douglas Roberts-2]

To the list at large: apologies for any extra crankiness that has  leaked through of late.  Recently I have had the biological equivalent of two grenades go off:  the first in my left knee, followed a week later by one of near equal violence in my right knee.  Imagine soft, slippery,  gristly schrapnel.

Too may years of X-Counry running, skiing, mountain biking, and other forms of physical abuse have suddenly, and with a stunning example of karma, caught up with me.

Appointments with the arthropod are scheduled -- I may be walking around on metal knees in 2009.  Comments involving Complexity, knee evolutioninsm, Agent Based Articular Mechanical System Modeling (ABAMSM), as well as any other "Woo Woo" fuzzy Psuedo-Scientific expostulations will be crankily ignored in the interim.

--Doug

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Doug Roberts, RTI International
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[Günther Greindl]

Hey,

we can then welcome the first cyborg on the list ;-)

Hope all goes well with fixing the knees,
Günther

Douglas Roberts wrote:

> To the list at large: apologies for any extra crankiness that has  
> leaked through of late.  Recently I have had the biological equivalent
> of two grenades go off:  the first in my left knee, followed a week
> later by one of near equal violence in my right knee.  Imagine soft,
> slippery,  gristly schrapnel.
>
> Too may years of X-Counry running, skiing, mountain biking, and other
> forms of physical abuse have suddenly, and with a stunning example of
> karma, caught up with me.
>
> Appointments with the arthropod are scheduled -- I may be walking around
> on metal knees in 2009.  Comments involving Complexity, knee
> evolutioninsm, Agent Based Articular Mechanical System Modeling
> (ABAMSM), as well as any other "Woo Woo" fuzzy Psuedo-Scientific
> expostulations will be crankily ignored in the interim.

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