Thursday, February 1, 2007
wishtful thinking
As if I didn't already know I'd love to know Ligneus, he wrote today about being in the RAF and using Morse Code during his service and having a thirty-something daughter who's learning to knit and dye her own wool and has two little children. . . . It's exciting to discover people who share the same combination of interests and skills as oneself. But it makes one wistful because alas so few live anywhere nearby. I'm going to go drown my sorrows . . . in a cup of Earl Grey tea.

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Blogger Dick Stanley — at 9:34 AM, February 02, 2007:
Does this mean you know Morse Code?
 

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Blogger jau — at 10:17 AM, February 02, 2007:
It means I am MAD about codes. I'm insane about them. I'm a member of Bletchley Park which is an awesome place in Maynard Keynes, and of the Cryptological Museum in Maryland - have you ever been to either? At Bletchley, they gave me a kind of personal tour since I knew so much of the detailed history and they let me in to touch the Colossus!!! Unfortunately I only began learning coding about five years ago so my skills are minimal. Oh if I were 20 . . . !! I learned to write Braille when I was a teenager, thinking I could be of service and also have a really cool way to talk to those "in the know". Oh, and Samuel Morse's home is in the town where I live and it's replete with stuff to learn. Hey, could we "write" to each other if I learn it better?
 

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Blogger Dick Stanley — at 2:29 PM, February 02, 2007:
I don't know Morse. I skipped the opportunity in Boy Scouts. I had minor association with codes in Vietnam in the last months of my time there, ferrying updated codes around to remote units by helicopter. They were hard cards that were inserted into the backs of special radios that set some mechanical thingies that determined something or other. Greek to me. I know about Colossus from having read a lot of WW2 military history.
 

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