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Dear Colleagues, It was a great pleasure to read this morning's note reporting on Prof. Zeke Conran's recent work. His work on the theory of creative relativity deserves intense study and immediate replication. Together with my close colleague, colaborator, and canine, Jacob Mauritzon Friedman, I will be developing a series of replication trials immediately. We will start tonight by testing the creative sandwich hypothesis with an experimental apparatus consisting of thin slices of smoked ham, honey-glazed ham, salami, mortadella, capacolla, provelone, noekkelost, and Swiss cheese on a bed of shredded lettuce with a modest layer of ruccola. We will coat the composition in a light wash of apple vinegar and robust natural olive oil, dusted with a fine layer of fresh-ground black pepper and flaked sea salt on a crusty provincial loaf. Tomorrow, we will test a rack of lamb marinated in olive oil, lemon and mustard, rubbed down with coarse crushed pepper corns and crushed rock salt, served with an experimental apparatus of baked potato wedges with a light dusting of cumin and sauteed spinach leaves. On Thursday, we will conclude the first series of experiments with a fresh soup of yellow peas, pork, onions and carrots. Jacob and I will report our findings presently. It will come as no surprise to the reads of this list to know that Zeke Conran's family has been in the research business for many years. I have begun the literature review on this topic, and I came across an interesting early book by Prof. Conran's great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-grand-uncle and namesake, Ezekiel. (This Ezekiel was a prophet, not the professor.) Proph. Ezekiel wrote, "I looked and a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it. He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation, mourning and woe. He said to me, O mortal, eat what is offered to you; eat this scroll, and go speak to the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat. He said to me, Mortal, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it. Then I ate it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey." -- Ezekiel 2:9 - 3:3 As you can see, Prof. Conran's family has been working with creative relativity for many years. This is reflected in the motto of the Institute for Design in Other Times. Despite the fact that this is one of the smaller research centres in our field, and hardly the best known, IDIOT has been a major influence in our field for centuries. Their motto says it all: "Doing unusual research since 597 BC" Wishing you a cheerful March 32, I will bid you a good day from those two Northern colleagues, Jacob and Ken Friedman