Re: a moment of silence

[Pete Loshin <pete at loshin.com>]

At 11:04 AM 10/7/99 -0700, braden at ISI.EDU wrote:
>
>Having known Jon pretty well, I doubt that he would have wanted things to
>shut down.  But he would have liked the idea of (1) putting a little
>humor into our Internet work, (2) striving harder to be precise and
>logical in what we do, and (3) thinking a bit about how to be kind to
>other people, local and remote.

I'm totally serious about this, even though it may seem flip, but why not
start celebrating his life with a holiday on his birthday? The three items
that Bob note here seem particularly worthy of celebration, and October 16
is too close to Columbus Day. Plus, holidays are more popular; plus
holidays usually come on the birthday not death day. And August 6 is just
far enough away from July 4 and Labor Day. (Sorry about all the US-centric
dates here.)

Call it Internet Day. Start a tradition by giving your oldest usable
computer to someone who doesn't have one but would like one, or setting up
a modem, or installing networking software, or stuff like that. I'm sure
there's plenty of other Internet-specific customs that be dreamed up
(games, special foods, etc.) not to mention making that a special day for
thinking about public service computing as well as celebrating clarity of
thought.

In any case, a holiday like that seems to me far more productive than a
moment of silence could be.

my $0.02
-pl

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