Rick Potvin here, reporting exclusively to my own blog. Isn't that surprising? Actually--- it is. Because I've been contributing to comments sections a LOT in other venues--- and like drinking too much beer, I should really cut back. For example, today I decided not to drink before 6 pm-- and I made it to 5:30. Yay for me. No... really. That's a big deal. Anyhoo...

Cryonicists were dealt a blow today by me because I coined a new term "Gluteronics". The whole sordid epistemological mess is dealt with in another section of this multi-sectioned blog by boardhost. Not only did I have to deal with gluonicists-- who preceded me in using the term gluonics-- there were more than one variety of gluonicists. Drat. I hate it when someone gets the search engines to find a newly coined word before I do. But... alas... I'll have the last laugh because nobody has yet thought of gluteronics.... except moi... meee. The only me I know of so far. Although if gluteronics is successful, I might actually have to worry about other me's in the future because gluteronics is founded upon perfect preservation and uploading. And we know files of uploads can be duplicated easily.

I'm not too terribly worried about other me's because I already found a lot of other Rick Potvin's and have become used to it.... as well as having other people look like me on Bing picture search. Come to think of it, a mirror is a form of "another me" and we started using those as children when brushing our teeth. Besides... other me's won't stay me-like for long since circumstances will quickly differentiate us. Hey, I'm starting to write like sci fi humorist Tom Rainbow in Analog Magazine in 1985! Doug Platt of 1985 would understand that joke. Doug programmed me from being a non-LSD taker to a post-LSD synchophant within about three months. That's another story-- but I still have the big binder that indexed our heavy conversations in a box in my back yard.