This is a refreshing change from 2004, when a certain Ursa Major winner commented, "What is this Ursa Major Award, and who cares if I 'won' one? Nobody ever heard of it. It's just some clowns trying to make themselves sound important." That's an approximation of what he said; my computer hasn't saved e-mails that old. But I've never forgotten it.
Things are happily different today. The Ursa Major Awards have gotten some respect.
This is a refreshing change from 2004, when a certain Ursa Major winner commented, "What is this Ursa Major Award, and who cares if I 'won' one? Nobody ever heard of it. It's just some clowns trying to make themselves sound important." That's an approximation of what he said; my computer hasn't saved e-mails that old. But I've never forgotten it.
Things are happily different today. The Ursa Major Awards have gotten some respect.
Fred Patten