Given a choice between professionally built and amateur built, I leave you with one nugget of wisdom: Noah's ark was built by Amateurs, The Titanic was built by professionals.

Astris Semper Fidelis.

Kind of chilling...the Columbia crew's wake up song on one of the days was Hotel California. This kind of gives new meaning to "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave." *raises glass*

I still say we need to reactivate the Saturn 5s. We've got several models that may or may not work..the Smithsonian still has the plans...so let's reverse engineer the rocket, update it a bit and launch the thing into space. For those of you who say we can't reenginer the Saturn 5, let me point out the fact that Chrysler has been doing just this with their car models for the last 5 years. Put Chrysler's engineers in charge of the reemergence of the S5, and we're golden. For the guidance system, we use Microsoft's engineers, they steal a comparable guidance system and "tweak it" then sell at the government standard price.

Amen Brother. :)

Sorry, but I gotta do the Obligatory quote, and I do apologize to the NASA folks that I'm about to tick off: Rockhound: Hey Harry. Harry Stamper: What? Rockhound: You realize we're sitting on 45,000 pounds of fuel, one nuclear warhead and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder? Makes you feel good doesn't it? Harry: Yeah, Rock.

Tonight and the garden: GEEK THUNDERDOME. A three round, no holds barred cage match between the Visual basic developers and the Java developers. Only one language will take it!! Whos syntax will reign supreme?! Find out all about it on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!

Smalltalk is an art, not a religion. :)

"They were stopping everyone driving on that particular stretch of sidewalk...."

believe me, if you don't like the present situation, remember, it gets worse as you go up the chain of replacements. You've got a person who can strategically do the least harm atm, let's keep it that way..

Time to buy stock in Reynolds and a lifetime supply of tinfoil. I'm selling tinfoil hats, $50.00 apeice, today only.