Is Sand still around?

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CaptainTrips222
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14 Jan 2013, 6:35 am

Anybody remember Sand?

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14 Jan 2013, 7:19 am

His last post was in July 2011. His account was last logged into in April 2012. He would be around 87 years old now if still alive, so may have died? I used to like his posts, he was very knowledgeable about particle physics.

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14 Jan 2013, 9:45 am

TallyMan wrote:

may have died?

I knew that was a possibility. He was up there.

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14 Jan 2013, 3:57 pm

Holy wow.

Someone here who is/was older than Ruveyn?

I remember Sand very well, and was wondering about him myself, but this is interesting news to me.

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14 Jan 2013, 4:01 pm

MCalavera wrote:

Holy wow.

Someone here who is/was older than Ruveyn?

I remember Sand very well, and was wondering about him myself, but this is interesting news to me.

I am just a kid. Sand was the True Elder.

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14 Jan 2013, 5:54 pm

Well, don't break out the Ouija yet. We'll see if he responds.

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14 Jan 2013, 5:58 pm

I'll try sending him an email and see what happens...

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14 Jan 2013, 9:48 pm

Remember him.

SkaFather is another person I have not seen in a long time.

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14 Jan 2013, 11:28 pm

We email from time to time, but it's been a while. I imagine about now he's taking care of the birds in Finland.

He's still active on Salon.com. He hasn't blogged in a while but does still log in and comment. If you can get an email to him, I'm sure he'd greatly appreciate being thought of. I should probably take some time and email him myself.

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15 Jan 2013, 4:28 am

Email reply from sand:

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Hi,
I never realized I made much of an impression. I am an artist and a poet, not a scientist, but I read a good deal. I will be 87 this next February and barely scratching by. I have a couple of blogs at http://open.salon.com/blog/jsand and at http://oursalon.ning.com/profile/JanSand which take up most of my time. But I haven't the energy I used to have so my effort are somewhat limited.
Thanks for asking.

Jan Sand

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