The tiny town of Nederland, Colorado, is cashing in on the fact that they made Trygve Bauge's life hell several years ago, when he tried to store his cryonically-suspended grandfather there and they made such acts illegal (though they literally "grandfathered" his particular case). They've decided to have a "frozen guy" festival.

I'm not sure how to react to this. At least they're taking it in good humor now, and aren't coming after cryonicists with torches and pitchforks. And as anyone who's ever read the Cryonics mailing list knows, Trygve is kind of a loon.

But it makes light of a serious issue--when is a person really dead, and should the government be making it illegal to try to preserve the information that constitutes a person?

Nederland's a weird place. When I knew it, back in the seventies, it was the sub rosa meth manufacturing center of the universe. Whole place reeked of the hidden labs.