Historical Documents
A Cake for Mech71 by Bittoo 2K Meeting of the L-Year Olds (Sounds so much better in Roman numerals) by S.M. Pimputkar [For those who did not attend, and as The another point-of-view for those who did, I scribbled down my recollections and impressions. So here goes…] It all began with an innocuous, plain envelope. Inside was a (typically) cryptic note from “Harbinder Singh Gill” asking that if the envelope reached the addressee --- the weekend of June 3rd should be kept free. I replied by e-mail, and as immediate testimony to the power of electronic communication, for the next few weeks I was treated to a burgeoning set of e-mails, bearing names that were blurred from the haze of history – Mal, KC, …Mal’s e-mails in particular were a source of intrigue. I could not quite decide whether the typographical errors were a sign of incoherence brought on by excitement, or just idiosyncrasies of a defective keyboard. There was also a stream of messages from Gill, with varying conte
