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 My APL bud ,  big Bob Hoekstra  , in from England  , crashed in the
 42 Peck Slip office saturday night before the 2001 APL conference at Yale
 the week before last .  

 Eventually , we headed up to Sun Lok Kee on Mott , my favorite 0400
 Sezhuan place . Ordering 2 TsingTao , I tried to ask the waiter how
 to say "two" in Chinese .  Totally failed to communicate .
 At the end of the meal , on the back of my fortune cookie fortune was
                    Speak Chinese :  two  "er"  = 
 I mention this only as an example of how commonly improbables happen .
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      Thursday afternoon , June 14 , I was  on top of the world .
 I had gotten the processing of my CoSy web pages in Arthur Whitney`s  K
 streamlined to the point I was restructuring CoSy/Home and the whole
 CoSy website so that I could present my work triumphantly at APL2001
 the following week .  I had the taxes and accounts I am responsible for
 all organized in K and ready to be brought totally up to date after the
 conference . You can see the level I was approaching from my comments
  TUE.MAY,010522  and  mon.May.20010528  above .
 I was looking forward to editing and uploading material piled up over
 months dealing with other responsibilities and grokking K deeply
 enough to abandon old CoSy`s last use : preprocessing my web pages .

 I had just changed the center banner at the top of  CoSy/Home 
 from the "CoSy/NoteComputing" referencing the old CoSy tech path to
 "CoSy/Current" referencing these events and commentary , as you can
 see I have done once again . 
/20010716.0825 continuing /  Under CoSy/Views I was replacing
 the Travelgate example of the worst of Statist Force & Fraud , with the
 an uplifting image by my friend and partner Raj , of Free Market 
 money building  300K$  2 family  homes  in East New York . 
I had put off tackling the editing of the images of Bernd Naber before and
 during our Mid Winter Party , and setting up a proper gallery in
  CoSy/Art  for him - until I had the total control over my web
 interface that embedding  K  in my HTML now again provides .
 I will remember in particular , images of Bernd at the audio controls in
 the entrance to his cubby hole , and laying back in his aerie cantilevered
 on 2 angle brackets out in audio space .   / 
I had notes on a number of meetings and comentary covering things from the
 impossibility of Global Warming to meeting Bill Gates Sr. at a panel of
 self labeled " Responsible Wealth " arguing for the continuation of the
 Estate tax . It`s not uncorrelated that big Bill Sr. is a lawyer like so
 many of those of us righteous enough to have gotten there . Tax lawyers
 stand to lose perhaps more dollars than the government itself .
 When I explained to big Bill that I was a "bleeding heart" Libertarian
 and asked why he felt that others were so much less charitable than he
 himself and the Political Class that they must take , by threat of force ,
 half of a family's assets when the parents pass away , for the State's
 charities , no matter how destructive liquidation of those assets may be .
 Big Bill , in a practiced lawyerly EoC said that if I were Libertarian ,
 we had nothing to discuss . He would not even try to morally defend
 his position .

 I felt so secure in my rapidly increasing productivity , my finally
 approaching having some product to offer the thousands of eyballs which
 touch some part of CoSy each week , that I decided to head to Chinatown
 to lay in some supplies  .
 When I got back , I went straight to the kitchen to steam some dumplings
 on greens . With spasm of clumsiness I dropped a Corning Corelle plate
 on the tile floor . If Corelle breaks , it explodes . So I spent a quarter
 hour cleaning up the glass slivers . Finally tonged myself a bowl of
 now well steamed dumplings  and returning to my
 computer heard it making strange sounds like the disk arm was bashing
 against its stops .  It was down hill from there . 
  #This Week 
 I always imagined disks failing when either their spindle motor ( or bearing )
 fails or its actuator arm sticks or fails . A mode where both motors stay
 alive , but the arm just starts sweeping back and forth scratching the
 disk , I never contemplated . Here is the  report  .  

 Dispite it all , Subscriptions to the evolving  K.CoSy  open programming
 environment will be available by the end of the month .  BobA /1454/