Instead of using words, how about playing the keyboard as if it were a piano (or any other keyboard-like instrument)

Here is an example of a musical login: pvy89pvvv[890[]vv

For this example, position your right hand with the thumb on the 'v' key, then play the sequence as if they were notes, then listen to C.P.E. Bach - Minuet In G Major for what it should really sound like.

If you like impressive music, try: uppvyuvyyyyuyvvyuvyuppvyuvyyyyuyvvyuyv
Leo Arnaud - Buglers Dream

Will it obey the usual editing commands like Ctrl+F10 (execute,) 'home', 'end', 'undo', 'delete', and 'search and replace'? I really would like to remove the 9 scores from my target and replace them with 10s.

So, in a few years time when my body slumps a little more and my ass is hanging down, I can get a 'Sponge Bob' job down the back and another complementary do-hickey up front? This is strangely appealing on several levels. I can see the cost benefit analysis, and why wait for the future; do they need human test subjects?

What's all this about Duck Tape, or Duct Apes? How about a simple solution: put a fish bowl in front of the sensor! It will probably still pick up your hand gestures, but get driven crazy by the Goldfish! OK, I have been watching too much the American Dad (social education programs.)

Without Bose we might have patent marks on nearly every electronic part in use today.

My alternative suggestion would have to be Joseph Whitworth - creator of standards that became to basis for great engineering feats.

The scientists are probably working furiously to name the life form, but I'm getting there first ... Your name is 'Fred'.

Logic should run along the time honoured statement ... Is it a bird? Is it a Plane? No, Its Superman!

So, it wasn't a bird (the protesters were there to stop this) it wasn't a plane (or the pilot would be - miffed) So.. THEY SHOT SUPERMAN !!!

Competitive target pistol shooting. Now teach scuba diving in clear and warm waters, but used to program realtime embedded systems (nitty gritty stuf, sod database programming!)

I left the UK when the government changed the laws against my personal interests some years ago, and was joined in exile by some friends for the same reasons.

Ended up in Jamaica (a quiet part)
Where did you settle?

There has been historic debate upon this subject...

The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we’ve been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that’s pretty near a hundred years’ daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime!

Groucho Marx (film: Animal Crackers)

Some many years ago, Britain adopted a decimilised currencey. It simplified things, yet there were hidden disadvantages: after the introduction of the new coinage (12 old pennies comprised a shilling, then became 5 New Pence) prices for goods were converted upward, and led to a one-off step in inflation. for example, something that sold for an old penny, coverted directly to 0.416666667 in New Pence would now be sold for a New half penny, which was 0.083333333 New pence increase - a small matter of 16% increase. If you were a scruffy schoolkid who dealt in exchange rates based on the 'Mars Bar' economic standard, things got tough!

Proposed Time Rhyme:

March, June, December,
Please to remember:
31 Days are their alot.
Of all else
30 are got.

Beware your days,
Run, be merry without rest.
The Reaper will ignore the list,
Man's crude toy,
With a counting none resist.

... now, what's my percentage of calendar sales?

I watched the ground (stupendous,) I watched the lightning (amazing,) I watched the stars (Fascinating: it's worth watching them come upwards from the horizon - like rain in reverse, and also watch the atmospheric effects on them.) Then I tried to figure out where places are (still clueless: would like second-by-second tabulated list of locations, please.) Then I started watching the ISS itself - the play of light and reflections on the equipment that is visible, and have to ask (someone knowledgeable, please) if the motions of the solar panels while in earth shadow are really necessary? It just seems uneconomical electrically and mechanically to allow such movements.

Just asking, as always.

Graham.
(SETI user of the day 19 September 2011 - Every Little Helps!)