As you may recall, Margaret and I are preparing ourselves for a commuter marriage for the next few years — I’m counting on this as an incentive for her to finish her PhD work promptly — and as Phase One of the preparations, we acquired an iSight camera with which we will eventually be able to look one another in the eyes with distance-impeded affection. As a test drive, I eyeChatted with Kevin, and everything worked all right (slightly laggy, but all right); as soon as we get Margaret set up, we’ll be working on our long-distance crooning. In the meantime, though, it’s utterly convenient to take still of pictures such as this, that Pippa sketched of me this afternoon:
All the best to both you and Margaret. Hard to be apart, though in a good cause.
Posted by: The Happy Tutor at March 13, 2004 09:57 PM1) I may have missed it, but do we know yet where Margaret is headed?
2) Not to make light of the trials and tribulations ahead, it reminds me of seminary students - no matter what the family arrangement, it's always difficult.
3) Quite a good likeness.
Posted by: Wes at March 13, 2004 10:45 PMWelcome to the club!
Now if I can get Wendy to get a Mac and some decent DSL, then maybe we can have an iChat. Thankfully, we live in the age of email, instant messaging and cheap long-distance phone plans.
However did people do this with old-style long-distance phoning and postal mail? Or pre-phone, pre-jet?
Posted by: Joey deVilla at March 14, 2004 11:55 PM