Wow, so now all us wanna-be essayists can thank people at the end of our posts like PG does. Except that nobody will have ever heard of the people we thank. O

Wow, so now all us wanna-be essayists can thank people at the end of our posts like PG does. Except that nobody will have ever heard of the people we thank. Of course, you could just send copies unbidden to people anyway. Hmm. Thanks to Al Gore, Donald Knuth, Warren Buffett and Sergei Brin for reading early drafts of this comment.