I just got email from Elizabeth Thomson at the MIT News Office…it seems she just got email from Odd Minde of Kiruna Sweden….
From: Elizabeth Thomson
Date: February 25, 2005 9:29:27 AM EST
Subject: Fwd: DNA from WilczekBetsy and Frank!
Received the following note, and EVERYBODY over here has thoroughly enjoyed it. Ultra-bizarre! Just noticed that bidding has now stopped, and the winner is….betsythedevine. Betsy: did you indeed recover the glasses?
Do tell!
Elizabeth
>Hello!
>In connection with your article:
>MIT’s Wilczek wins 2004 Nobel Prize in physics
>Elizabeth A. Thomson, News Office
>October 5, 2004; updated October 6, 2004
>I suggest you to look at:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6149217230
>Best wishes
>Odd Minde
>Rymdgymnasiet
>Kiruna
>Sweden
My reply:
Hi Elizabeth–yes, the package from Sweden arrived yesterday!
The Rymdgymnasiet students had packaged each glass in layers of bubble-wrap with labels “Betsy Devine” and “Frank Wilczek”. I hesitate to un-bubble-wrap them now, and maybe the bubble wrap is part of the story.
As you can see, I put the bubble-wrapped glasses over our fireplace, where some of Frank’s robots and Lego constructions seem to be happy to see them.
All best,
Betsy
p.s. Do you mind if I include your nice email when blogging this?
