When Nice Famous People Write You Back

Oh oh I forgot: Michael Donaghy left a comment on my blog once :)

I once got into an on-going email argument with someone we were teaming with on a large proposal. End of the project we all got together to celebrate the award - turned out I'd been arguing with an astronaut who'd been on Mir and stuff. I felt so silly for not having recognized their email.

Oh - and one of the SkyLab astronauts sent me a nice "thank you" letter for having given him a tour of our offices - again, I didn't know who it was at the time.

Momus does write nice letters back, sometimes. Sometimes I think he has someone else write on his behalf. Or maybe not. How does one decide which emails to answer?

noam chomsky.

Yes but what if Noam isn't available to triage my e-mails?

Then you pray like hell that the mail doesn't get forwarded to Dinesh d'Souza.