This being my first time, I'm still a bit giddy from the fact that I received an invitation to the Gathering for Gardner next spring. Wow. I mean, more cool people than you can shake a stick with fractal branching at! Picture me lying awake nights trying to think of sufficiently interesting things to bring... (Er, I'm not entirely clear on the nondisclosure situation: it seems one is not supposed to talk about the G4G publicly beforehand, at least to some extent. I suppose it's in the nature of these you-don't-apply-we-just-invite-you events. So to be clear, I'm explicitly invoking the math-fun privacy agreement: this is private communication, do not forward or quote without permission, stuff like that.) Anyway, certainly some funsters are past participants, and the darn thing is expensive. Anyone out there planning to go and interesting in sharing a hotel room? --Michael Kleber -- It is very dark and after 2000. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a bleen.