Now. That is funny. :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0mRfECsHrc

With little models of the LEM and Command Module on their desks? Pointing at things with their pens, as they described technical aspects of docking and landing?

It was quite a different world.

I was 5. We were painting the walls of the Television Room - what we called it then - in Avacado. Shag carpet was coming in next. Neil stepped down the ladder, whil ethe set was swaddled in an old sheet for drips...

Like yesterday, almost.

Ready with everything but time. :-)

It establishes a conversational rapport with a group or audience, correctly delivered - and can be used as a framing device to explore what might be a foot note or parenthetical comment, if rendered in text. I can be varied with "I find it interesting..." or "You might also think this interesting:..."

Unless the text is conveying an overall, conversational style, I think usage is dubious and should be employed after consulting the general context.

Completely agree - for session / form recovery, privacy and acceleration. All the gripes are not worth 5 minutes on Safari or Chrome.

IE is like remedial education.

Yeah. Gonna take some time to get to it. Pile of high-season stuff here in work land. :-)

Read Rumi's poem about Moses and the shepherd. Sincerity of intention is a virtue, and can be perfected - where clarity of intellect will never approach the absolute degree, where God is.

The poem is in Masnavi Vol II.

There is a serviceable, free-verse English rendition, by Coleman Barks:

Moses heard a shepherd on the road, praying,

"God, where are you? I want to help you, to fix your shoes and comb your hair. I want to wash your clothes
and pick the lice off. I want to bring you milk to kiss your little hands and feet when it's time
for you to go to bed. I want to sweep your room and keep it neat. God, my sheep and goats
are yours. All I can say, remembering you, is ayyyy and ahhhhhhhhh."

Moses could stand it no longer. "Who are you talking to?"
"The one who made us, and made the earth and made the sky."
"Don't talk about shoes and socks with God! And what's this with your little hands and feet?
Such blasphemous familiarity sounds like you're chatting with your uncles.

Only something that grows needs milk. Only someone with feet needs shoes. Not God!
Even if you meant God's human representatives, as when God said, `I was sick, and you did not visit me,'
even then this tone would be foolish and irreverent.

Use appropriate terms. Fatima is a fine name for a woman, but if you call a man Fatima,
it's an insult. Body-and-birth language are right for us on this side of the river,
but not for addressing the origin, not for Allah."

The shepherd repented and tore his clothes and sighed and wandered out into the desert.
A sudden revelation then came to Moses. God's voice:

You have separated me from one of my own. Did you come as a Prophet to unite, or to sever?

I have given each being a separate and unique way of seeing and knowing that knowledge.

What seems wrong to you is right for him. What is poison to one is honey to someone else.

Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship, these mean nothing to me.

I am apart from all that. Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another.

Hindus do Hindu things. The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do. It's all praise, and it's all right.

It's not me that's glorified in acts of worship. It's the worshipers! I don't hear the words they say. I look inside at the humility.

That broken-open lowliness is the reality, not the language! Forget phraseology. I want burning, 'burning'.

Be friends with your burning. Burn up your thinking and your forms of expression!

Moses, those who pay attention to ways of behaving and speaking are one sort. Lovers who burn are another.

Don't impose a property tax on a burned-out village. Don't scold the Lover.
The "wrong" way he talks is better than a hundred "right" ways of others.

Inside the Kaaba it doesn't matter which direction you point your prayer rug!

The ocean diver doesn't need snowshoes! The love-religion has no code or doctrine. Only God.

So the ruby has nothing engraved on it! It doesn't need markings.

God began speaking deeper mysteries to Moses. Vision and words, which cannot be recorded here, poured into
and through him. He left himself and came back. He went to eternity and came back here.
Many times this happened. It's foolish of me to try and say this. If I did say it, it would uproot our human intelligences.
It would shatter all writing pens.

Moses ran after the shepherd. He followed the bewildered footprints,
in one place moving straight like a castle across a chessboard. In another, sideways,
like a bishop.
Now surging like a wave cresting, now sliding down like a fish,
with always his feet making geomancy symbols in the sand, recording his wandering state.

Moses finally caught up with him.
"I was wrong. God has revealed to me that there are no rules for worship.
Say whatever and however your loving tells you to. Your sweet blasphemy
is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.

Loosen your tongue and don't worry what comes out. It's all the light of the spirit."

The shepherd replied, "Moses, Moses,
I've gone beyond even that. You applied the whip and my horse shied and jumped
out of itself. The divine nature and my human nature came together.

Bless your scolding hand and your arm. I can't say what's happened.

What I'm saying now is not my real condition. It can't be said."

The shepherd grew quiet.

When you look in a mirror, you see yourself, not the state of the mirror.
The flute player puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The flute player!

Whenever you speak praise or thanksgiving to God, it's always like this dear shepherd's simplicity.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are,
you will keep saying again and again, "This is certainly not like we thought it was!"

Way dig it.

They are getting 99% of the academic tail, too.

1% Elitism is EVERYWHERE.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2012/11/27/civil_war_who_would_come_out_on_top_if_the_united_states_all_declared_war.html

Who said anything about "revolution"? That just brings you trouble, and causes more harm to innocents.

Just don't lay any special claim by "citizenship" - that is a parlour trick to keep you in harness, to keep you a "house negro".

No longer inhabits the constitutional legal framework of its purpose or foundation.

It is an illegal institution, with no basis for either loyalty or obedience.

If Slashdot had posted a story about "the Lone Gunmen" pilot episode, then they would have a scoop that anticipated the 9/11 attacks with a civilian airliner, by several months...