From: sverre@research.nokia.com (Sverre Slotte)
Message-Id: <9503161440.AA08326@research.nokia.com>
Subject: Re: Baidarka -- The Kayak
To: gdyson@henson.cc.wwu.edu
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:40:09 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950307082708.16806C-100000@janice.cc.wwu.edu> from "George Dyson" at Mar 7, 95 08:31:10 am
>From the keyboard of George Dyson:
>
> I am presently at a conference, but when I return home in three days I will
> mail you a copy of a later paper on some of the hydrodynamic questions.
Thank you, I got it in the mail today. This is a proper booklet; do you
want money for it?
I shall probably be back with more questions when I have read "Form &
Function". BTW, it says "Occasional Papers ..., Number Two" on the
cover. What was number one?
> And as I expect you know, in your national museum in Helsinki you have
> what in my opinion is the best designed (and best preserved, thanks to
> your thoughtful curators) baidarka that survives in the world today.
I'm ashamed to admit that I've never even heard about the baidarka in
the National Museum. I have been to several national museums in my
days, but I have not visited our own yet. I shall do it soon, though.
Sverre
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I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers.