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(261) The water bearer

At 7.35 p.m. on May 10th 2010 I was approaching the summit of San Julian hill near my home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEwQItCOjKw I found myself thinking of press announcements that an Indian holy man had been observed performing a paranormal feat -  http://www.physorg.com/news192690076.html I thought, rather whimsically, that I might semi-seriously use this story to apply for James Randi´s $1 Million -  http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html  Some years earlier I had crossed swords with Randi about his refusal to test a guy making a similar claim - http://web.archive.org/web/20041023083501/www.alternativescience.com/james-randi.htm He had written back that if they took such kooks seriously then they did not have time to deal with the "serious claimants". the serious claimants . That from a man whose raison détre is the stance that all paranormal phenomena are nonsensical. He had ended communications with " Thank you for your inane input ."