What's new isn't always what it seems to be.

David Barnhart dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM
Mon May 23 09:44:44 UTC 2011


\Wilson Gray wrote:



>I nearly posted it as a "new" word.<



Good science can't be done in a day!  A quote, I don't remember who wrote
it, that I heard some years ago from someone at Brookhaven National Labs
(?).



It certainly is a good policy to look around.



When I first found sky box, it turned out to have been lurking out of my
hearing and reading for ten years.

Neology certainly isn't an exact science, but it does deserve the
application of scientific method.



Regards,

David



Barnhart at highlands.com

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