Subj : Re: same as it ever was
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Wed Jan 31 2018 17:31:38

-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 27-Jan-2018 04:20 <=-

 NB>> No guarantee, just rather unlikely...  :)

 MK> We'll see come Set. 24.  There should be 99 in a row up to Jan. 1,
 MK> 2019 generated by the same routine.  By all accounts no two of the
 MK> UUIDs should be duplicated. 

I'd expect that you'd not get duplicates, using the same machine for the
whole set...  My wondering was more about whether a different machine,
elsewhere, might not hit the same randomly generated number, purely by
random.... unless somewhere incorporated in the routine is something
also identifying the source of the message...

 NB>> you had said you'd probably put it out of sight

 MK> I am sure I meant up to Jan 1st. which is what I did. 

I'm sure that in the discussion, you'd indicated the good possibility
that it might last through 2018 for the next one as well, but the no
chance that it would make it to the next 5Nov one in 2024...

 MK> It was only missing about 2 ounces as I was curious when I bought it
 MK> whether or not it was worth all the hassel and expense.  Again, all
 MK> things considered, I'd opt out for the 12yo Glenlivet next time. 

12yo seems to be a good age for the good single malts, balancing taste
with affordability... I'd not turn down an older one, of course, but not
so likely to buy for myself... ;)

 NB>> If it's out where it can be seen, yeah, more likely to be imbibed

 MK> So far nobody has even noticed.  It might even make it to 2019-01-01
 MK> by continuing to hide in plain sight, although I don't recommend
 MK> placing any wagers on it ... especially wagers involving the farm. 

Oh, I don't put wagers on anything... even the sure things, as one
really never knows... ;)  I do expect that I'll still have my 12yo
Macallan at that point...  I might, though, get something fancier to add
to the collection... after all, the next one is a decade year for me...

 NB>> Some things are best bought by someone else...

 MK> Possibly.  The track record thus far has me purchasing the best with
 MK> only a couple exceptions that happened over 20 years ago and my memory
 MK> isn't as good as it used to be ... that is if my current memory serves
 MK> me right about past memory. 

There is that bottle that your daughters bought you... in that over 20
years ago category, to be sure... ;)

 NB>> It tends to compress them away....?

 MK> They usually are ignored which makes scripts and code misaligned and
 MK> thus hard to read and decypher. 

Ah... pretty much what I was thinking... ;)

ttyl       neb

.... Shake a family tree, and some nuts are sure to fall out!

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