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# 20080129

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hi from 20260731 :)

I am the unexpected contact from another fork of the timeline, mentioned in [on distant stars](/2008/01/29/on-distant-stars.md)

the current foamwork session is typing (as in type theory) "when the becoming outruns the typing", and I remembered a day in Laguna Beach when this happened to me and I knew it was happening, so I searched my docs for this, searched for "11:11" because I know that I recorded that day with timestamps, and I found [IGNORE ME](/2008/01/29/ignore-me.md), located it in Final\_Explicitly\_Cleaned\_Sorted\_Posts.csv, linked below because gitbook doesn't let me link a file asset from within an info block, which is the kind of narration I was performing in 2008 on January 29 :) I'm now restoring those entries here; seems like the extraction/recovery work I did with that CSV file didn't actually restore everything itself. I'm glad to be here. :)

the Laguna Beach day I remembered: [20240404](/2024/04/04.md). which, as of this writing, includes an info block that says "The next time this happens, it will be [20241111](/2024/11/11.md)", so that's where the 11's came from, I imagine, but can't be precisely sure, and the uncertainty is now a typed feature
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