X-Message-Number: 2108 Date: 14 Apr 93 19:59:37 EDT From: Garret Smyth <> Subject: CRYONICS Bracelets IMPORTANT: At the Easter Sunday (date picked by accident, but very symbolic anyway) meeting of Alcor UK we discussed the wording on bracelets. We're all going to have to have new ones due to area code change soon, so it would be a suitable time to clear up problems. The 800 number on some peoples' bracelets does not work outside the US, hence is not much good to us over here, or for people who travel a lot. Also, the temperature to be cooled to is different on different bracelets some say 10C and some say 2C, which strike me as being too hot or too cold respectively. (Farenheit temperatures are too confusing by far - let's kill them off, except for central heating controllers which look ridiculous in centigrade.) Chit-chat: ALCOR UK'S VERY OWN TAGGART/D'ANCONIA [Non-UK readers: British Rail was created in the 40's by the nationalisation of the railway companies.] I had a long chat on the phone with a new sign-up, Tim Hanson. He sounds like a bluff Lancashire man of 34 years, who runs a private railway company. At the moment they just do charters, but will be bidding for regular services when British Rail gets liberated (a word he prefers to privatised - I wonder if he has read Atlas Shrugged, I must find out). He is also happy to do press stuff in his area, but being a Northern railway pioneer won't put up with any of the ususal journo shennanigans. I imagine he calls a spade a bloody shovel. Garret Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2108