gil

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

you and Gil talk?  he sending you a check?  He's a .com winner, but  
he's also on the caltech board of trustees and the x prize board.   
Smart guy.  I told him p.r.o. or sunlight could be conduits for  
getting you money if necessary.

I have not heard back from Stephen Schultze on the nytimes thing.  Is  
he ok going on the record?  (I did not divulge his name yet, did yours.)

Finally ... how is your .gov audit going?  Will there be enough work/ 
deliverable to merit a second check, or is $12.5k going to handle the  
resources you have in it?  (I'm doing my year-end book closing and I  
don't mind showing another $12.5k on the books owed to you for future  
work, but if we end up reversing it because we both agree it didn't  
involve $25k of work, that is kind of a pain because it impacts my  
audit ... so, if we're done on that piece for phase I at $12.5k, we  
should declare it to be so ... if the project will grow to be $25k  
worth of whatever it is you deliver, then we should put it on the  
books.)

Happy new year!

Carl

P.S. thumper:/pro/bulk.resource.org/irs$ find . -type f | wc -l
 39378123

Seeing light at the end of the tunnel ... should reach 43m or so tiff  
files in a week or so and that will be all the dvds.  Then, I can  
start the batch jobs and start stitching this all together.