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09-30-2012, 05:29 AM
This morning I get into the office and there’s an envelope addressed to me sitting on my desk.
The return address says “Horowitz”, Physics Dept, Cambridge, MA. I don’t k**w a Horowitz, but it looks like a Harvard address, so I’m intrigued.
I open it up.
Inside I find an article from The Astrophysical Journal, published in 1993. The authors are Paul Horowitz and Carl Sagan.
At the top there’s a handwritten **te, signed Paul Horowitz. And on the first page there’s a highlight behind “37 candidate events”.
http://37assets.s3.amazonaws.com/svn/37signals-letter-small.jpg (http://37assets.s3.amazonaws.com/svn/37signals-letter-big.jpg)
People have often asked us what 37signals means. Our original web site explained the origin of the name (http://37signals.com/33.html).
And **w, because of the generosity of Paul Horowitz himself, we have a signed copy of the actual article where the 37 signals were first mentioned. Here’s a PDF of the article (http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1993ApJ...415..218H&defaultprint=YE S&filetype=.pdf) if you’d like to browse the whole thing.
What an unexpected and wonderful surprise, and a**ther great example of unrelated events coming together (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3234-connecting-the-dots-how-my-opinion-made-it-into-the-new-york-times-today) to produce something you never expected.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?a=Jl0gBBzFAuI:3WflozFNnfM:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?a=Jl0gBBzFAuI:3WflozFNnfM:7Q72WNTAKBA)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/37signals/beMH/~4/Jl0gBBzFAuI
أكثر... (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/37signals/beMH/~3/Jl0gBBzFAuI/3238-paul-horowitz-and-the-real-37-signals)
The return address says “Horowitz”, Physics Dept, Cambridge, MA. I don’t k**w a Horowitz, but it looks like a Harvard address, so I’m intrigued.
I open it up.
Inside I find an article from The Astrophysical Journal, published in 1993. The authors are Paul Horowitz and Carl Sagan.
At the top there’s a handwritten **te, signed Paul Horowitz. And on the first page there’s a highlight behind “37 candidate events”.
http://37assets.s3.amazonaws.com/svn/37signals-letter-small.jpg (http://37assets.s3.amazonaws.com/svn/37signals-letter-big.jpg)
People have often asked us what 37signals means. Our original web site explained the origin of the name (http://37signals.com/33.html).
And **w, because of the generosity of Paul Horowitz himself, we have a signed copy of the actual article where the 37 signals were first mentioned. Here’s a PDF of the article (http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1993ApJ...415..218H&defaultprint=YE S&filetype=.pdf) if you’d like to browse the whole thing.
What an unexpected and wonderful surprise, and a**ther great example of unrelated events coming together (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3234-connecting-the-dots-how-my-opinion-made-it-into-the-new-york-times-today) to produce something you never expected.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?a=Jl0gBBzFAuI:3WflozFNnfM:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/37signals/beMH?a=Jl0gBBzFAuI:3WflozFNnfM:7Q72WNTAKBA)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/37signals/beMH/~4/Jl0gBBzFAuI
أكثر... (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/37signals/beMH/~3/Jl0gBBzFAuI/3238-paul-horowitz-and-the-real-37-signals)