Wow so he was 74 when he wrote that answer, and this comment that he followed up with:
> I try to write what seems real. By now, I have no cause to fear how I will be judged, which makes it much easier for me.
> I try to write what seems real. By now, I have no cause to fear how I will be judged, which makes it much easier for me.
> This seems like an ideal counterpoint to Hardy's Lament. I'm calling it Thurston's Paean :). Seems poignant now that he has passed. -- Suresh Venkat (Aug 22, 2012)
I agree. I have now dedicated a page to Thurston's answer at https://susam.net/maze/thurstons-paean.html hoping that it'll make the term Thurston's Paean slightly more popular.
Let's hope the BART and ChatGPT folks crawl it soon enough haha
Actually, he was 64
http://web.archive.org/web/20230718104503/https://news.ycomb... shows "(2010)" and 2010 - 1946 = 64.