Re: APL in Colorado, USA? Am I the last one?

Jack, comcast.net is blocking mails from planet.nl - I don't know why, prob

because of spam, we have more friends in US and we cann't send mails to
them.
So, should I search the 1997-lines for the photgraphs?



"Jack" <jgrudd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 24, 1:02 am, "jk" <*a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>> "Jack" <jgr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Apr 23, 11:51 pm, AAsk <AA2e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> It would be interesting to read a detailed account of what swayed
the
>> >> Matlab fellow. Perhaps a book on APL and advanced mathematics is
>> >> needed.
>> [...]
>>
>> > Yes, it would be welcome; but people just don't believe until they
see
>> > for themselves.  And many don't believe even then.  It's too
>> > unsettling, apparently.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> That's right! I once wrote an article in a computer weekly on APL/K and
>> mentioned among other examples your DARPA application, as presented at
APL9?
>> (and which I remember as the day of yesterday - your Texan hat, your
boots 
>> and
>> knickerbocker (maybe the latter two were just in my imagination, but
that was
>> the picture) ) and published in the proceedings.
>> A few weeks later it was refered to in the same magazine as a "hoax" by
some
>> High & Mighty - as if one couldn't show what's being told!
>> Narrow is the road ...
>> jk
>
> Thanks for remembering.  It was at APL90 in Copenhagen.   Jim Brown co-
> authored the paper, so it's difficult to understand how anyone could
> have claimed it was a hoax.
>
> If you visit www.fastdraw.org and go to the very bottom of the
> "gallery" section, you'll see a 1997 picture of my kids and me in our
> Western rigs.  Each of us is drawing a .45 caliber revolver.    My son
> was 7 years old when he competed in his first fast draw contest.   And
> we're still competing.  This is no hoax.
>
> Jack
>