Tannu TuvaI first heard about you in April 1999. I was doing some research on time travel and asked a colleague if he happened to have any wide-ranging books on physics . He handed me a book called "The Feynman Lectures on Physics." I wasn't familiar with the book or you, but I read it to see if there was any information I could use. There was some of that, although it was more abstract than is usually necessary in electronics. After gathering all the information I could, I returned the book and talked to my online friend, he started talking about you, how you came to lecture for them at MIT, and that you are a fascinating person. He said he also got to meet you after the conference. Of course, all this meant nothing to me, and I assumed it was simply a physics student's admiration for a great professor. But now I understand what my friend needed to know and couldn't pass on to me. I almost forgot the whole episode and it seems like in 2002 I happened to be watching PBS and the show was about an adventure in a place called Tuva. It seemed interesting to me so I kept watching it. Your name was mentioned and I perked up, having remembered the name in the physics book. As I continued to watch, I started to realize that you were the person being interviewed while telling the story of Tannu Tuva. I was a little awed and amazed that THIS was the same guy who had given the physics lectures I had used in my research. The next day I went to my friend (the one who had lent me the book years before) and told him what I had seen. He was amused and actually knew Tuva for some reason too. So now I understood and he understood that I understood. But for the moment it all ended there and I didn't think about it anymore. Then at the end of 1994, probably in December, as far as I remember, I was looking for something somewhere, in an online service or in an encyclopedia, I don't remember. It was one of those searches that keeps you bouncing from article to article and when you're done you can't remember where you've been (or maybe what you were looking for in the first place).