>>Richard Dawkins IS my personal hero. I only hope the presentation is worthy :-)
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>I'm sure it will be. I'm gonna try to make it there, but we'll see how the funding goes.
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>And why in the world would you think I'd be envious of you meeting with Dawkins? Nope, doesn't bother me at all (lucky aussie jerk ;-)
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>With luck we'll be able to talk more along these lines face to face.

We'd be real pleased to see you here Mike. Qantas is doing some specials for about $450 US each way ex LA, but I guess that's a way from Minnesota too. It's not a really big conference by your standards but you would get to see a nice country with a tax deduction discount.