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Cards of the Season

It has been the custom to exchange Christmas cards with others. I have done so through most of my life, and remember seeing long lists of cards that we had gotten from others. In recent years, I have improvised on this custom. I had over thirty 30-minute tapes left over from an old TRS-80 that I gave away, so in 1997 I recorded some of my own music on them and sent them out along with the cards. In another year, I illustrated an Australian aborigine legend about the constellations Orion and Taurus on a card. This year my theme is peace, because of the threat of war in more than one place next year. I put an Earth-from-space on the front and one of my polyhedra in the body, comparing it with the interdependence of the world. And I hand-write my cards to people; I don't use Microsoft Word and I don't send people greetings on the Internet.

Double-youing

We have double-yous all over the place in today's world. All the places on the World Wide Web are www, which makes for some extended double-youing in such sites as www.wwbt.com, for TV station WWBT. How do you pronounce ww anyway? Is it double-you double-you or double double-you? How do you pronounce UU? Pronounce that You-You, not Double-you; there is no way that UU = W. What about www? Is that triple-double-you? Or double triple-you? Or is it simply dubyadubyadubya? Any of the above, except that the last one gives rise to an interesting Web site: http://dubyadubyadubya.com which says that maybe all this dubyaing around may be just a big technical problem.