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"There is no better way to celebrate freedom than exercising it." -- Hugo José Pinto (Thanks to acroyear70 for pointing it out.)

Not quite awake yet; 1/4 awake ten minutes ago, still 1/4 asleep; eyes incompletely open. Had been dreaming about email. Was owner or manager or something of a hotel that provided email service to guests -- sometimes scene changed and I was email admin for tech conf., but usually seemed to be hotel -- and we had email working into the past some of the time but not always. First it was random and curious and we wanted to harness it but didn't know how, then I woke up around 11:00 and mumbled something to anniemal and fell asleep again, after which we'd gotten a subset of into-the-past email to work but were having addressing problems. (How do we add times to email addresses, how do we do error-checking to make sure the destination address existed at that time, and more importantly, how specific does the sender have to be and how does the sender decide what time to specify.) And there were issues with certain combinations of content and times, or something -- I had these fancy graphs and diagrams like you'd find in science-for-general-public magazines but not the math, and I was bugging all my physics friends to help me with it, including figuring out whether we were sending actual electrons or photons back in time (and whether the particle or wave aspect was what the process hinged on) or just sending some sort of "information wave" (like in ... can't remember name of novel I read years ago set in Scotland with trickle of info back in time via computer) separate from any e/m wave. As I woke up, even while mumbling to anniemal about weather, brain kept screaming at me "must solve time travel problem! must solve!". Had problems with into-future email as well, but there's a workaround for that (store-and-forward); big question was error messages in the form of past bounces ... how to keep store-and-forward queue of bounces from growing too large if user tries to send mail to before either source or dest addr. existed. Wanted to solve into-future problem properly but just not as urgent as making into-past reliable and creating proper addressing standards. Still want to solve it. Wonder whether I'll get any farther if I close my eyes again. Anybody willing to advise on information-propogation wavefronts and time travel? Want to solve this.

Not sure whether waking up rest of way or re-crashing.