The Humpty Dumpty forum is all but idled but doesn't seem to have been officially disbanded. Obviously if Humpty didn't fall there's little need to put him back together again. Oddly, one of the little pieces of distorted data that led to my Y2K pessimism was the existence of the Humpty project: here's a guy who's written 25 computer books and he's already skipping the last 9 months of debate on his own forum, so certain is he that we need to prepare for the aftermath. I can sympathize with pushing on to the next project: once we had our book Krash! in the can we were already gearing up for Rebound! Guess Rebound and Humpty are in the same camp. Just an observation and curious about the official fate. Perhaps there is however an unintended role for the Humpty forum: some of us have seriously set back our personal careers going public on Y2K and THAT's what needs to be put back together again. This is not a criticism, just a painful observation, based on my own experience of the past few weeks. I think it was Hyatt's forum where they're joking about a Doomers Anonymous. It's probably the main reason for the continued activity of TB2000 forum, apart from inertia, momentum, etc. So what about it, Ed, maybe we can have some group therapy over at Humpty, perhaps in not quite so public a forum as this one.

-- Jonathan Chevreau (chevreau@istar.ca), January 10, 2000

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I didn't read your book, but I think you could perhaps review you self image a little later in the year.

Many who lurk here may not want to judge this process too hastily.

Regardless of what happens, y2k is one of the biggest *engineering* stories of our time. I always ask myself; what does the population as a whole know about engineering?

-- Will (righthere@home.now), January 10, 2000.

Jonathan, I second your idea. While it is perhpas too soon do hold a moratorium, I would certainly find value in a discussion about how we are adapting to the surprise of a seemingly miraculous rollover.

-- Faith Weaver (suzsolutions@yahoo.com), January 11, 2000.

Last night, my 8-year old daughter floored me when she said, "Daddy, you're famous.... for being wrong!"

Out of the mouths of babes! If nothing else, we need a sense of humor about the whole thing, and many lessons have been learned.

-- Jon Chevreau (chevreau@istar.ca), January 11, 2000.

Ed fell down and broke his crown, this forum's regulars are busily brown paper and vinegar wrapping it, all the while saying "Ed didn't break his crown! ED DIDN'T BREAK HIS CROWN!!"

-- Ed (is@demi.god), January 11, 2000.

All "good eggs" are welcome here.

The TP Chronicles: "Roll Call" is still open

And humor? Yeah we got that, but I promise I won't allow anyone to become the butt of anybody's "yolk."

:)

(Cause the best way to stop people from laughing at you is to prove them wrong or beat them to it, and I mean this in the nicest way.)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), January 11, 2000.