Ever wish you met Einstein?

What would you say to him? What would you ask of him?

I bring this up because of my neighbor --- been dead now for about 10 years. He lived across the street. He was over our house quite a few times and us over to his. He lived by himself, divorced for the last 25 years of his life.

He worked in AT&T's Bell Labs. I asked him what he did there but his explanation made no sense to me. I had no idea what da fuck he was talking about. He had a Ph.D in astrophysics. So I never again brought up his work.

He was disabled so he didn't get out much or go anywhere except to work. It was around 1975 that our families went on vacation together. His wife packed the back of their car with all kinds of computer shit --- took up about 1/3 of the back of the hatchback. Computers were BIG, then. It made sense for him to take all that stuff on vacation... the computer stuff was his fun and he wasn't going to leave the cabin during the week anyway, so what the hell. It would give him something to do while the rest of us were swimming or sightseeing.

Three weeks ago, I came across some of his papers from a "New Age" organization he belonged to. Rather than just shit-can the stuff, I figured he would want the organization to have it. To entice them into accepting the stuff, I figured I would research his work and tell the organization about who he was.

Wikipedia described him as being one of the first developers of the theory of artificial intelligence.. William Gale.