From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@ilr.genebee.msu.su)
Date: Fri Dec 31 1999 - 17:33:00 MST
Damien, I'm catching up with you....
After 18+ hours of schlepping across the U.S. and Europe,
I am now set to enter the next millennia slightly
ahead of the rest of you.
I did a quick scan of the list mail and either Kathryn is
from a alternate universe (slightly ahead of our time) OR
the date on her computer is set wrong OR my mail program is
interperting the dates on her messages in a very strange way ...
OR ... and I hope this isn't true, perhaps its the first
sign of Y2K sucking us all in... Aaaahhhhh...
At any rate after spending an ungodly amount of money
to get my second GSM phone (because the #*#$%^@! salespeople
in the U.S. don't realize that there are protocol *and*
frequency differences), I may now be callable.
The telephone number is:
095-799-7442
>From the U.S. its
011-7-095-799-7442
(I'm unsure if the Russia country code is 7 from everywhere).
If someone is really ambitious and wants to test this
I'll try to take a call or two at 8:00 PM or 9:00 PM
Moscow time (just to see if this works). Moscow is
Greenich Mean Time +3 hours.
I can't call anyone back (because they wanted multi-hundred
dollar) deposits for international "call-out" capability.
After 11:00 or so, if I can keep my eyes open, I'm going to
head down to the Moscow State University lookout point
over the city. If it isn't too cloudy I'll watch the fireworks
display, then rush back to my warm apartment and see if I can
upload the pictures so you can can see what the next millennium
looks like. I'll take as many calls as I can from 12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM for those of you who want to talk to the future
just a little ahead of your friends.
Leaping into the next millennia
Robert
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