And, ole Chris is out a free man now, married to the lawyer who worked the angles to get him released. Living somewhere up the coast, Oregon, I think.

Maybe I was just lucky but I stayed with my last job over 40 years. Retired last summer and a large reason I stayed so long is because I loved my work. So much so that I created a 12 node networked Linux system at home to learn more so I could have more fun at both work and home. The knowledge gained at home did help me get a few better raises though eventually I was promoted to a position not requiring those skills. Now, it remains my main hobby and is the thing helping me enjoy all of this spare time.

Only if they had an astronaut or two get out and walk around.

What are you doing with male and female mice in the same vicinity? You'll be overrun with the darn things in no time.

Especially, my dirty laundry. Go away Google, you're too intrusive.

I've tried several brands without success. The conversion is not straight forward and I can't seem to find the time to monkey with it anymore.

Some years ago I coded an answering machine based on a voice modem. With it, any number that was not on my list of “friends, relatives, or businesses”, went into the game. The game consisted of a series of questions by a robotic voice which required a key pad response. Anyone willing to play the game finally ended up with a reply of “Invalid response. Goodbye.”. I used mgetty, festival, and a few minor pearl scripts to interface with an old US Robotics voice modem. Worked like a jewel once the bugs were out. My new computer doesn't have a serial interface so that answering system is on a shelf for now. But, it was fun to sit back and see if anybody wanted to play.

Perhaps China has ideas of it own on this subject. I'd think they would want to do this search themselves.

If he'd included "Better living through chemistry", he would have had DDT. It lost me when they were using guns to kill bugs.

Better to a science panel than a professional welfare recipient.

How do we keep politics out of this?

Are they supporting the old standard - the PC?