Texas has failed to pass any regulating legislation for branding honey produced in Texas, and most honey sold in Texas as "local" is actually produced in Viet Nam and other countries; brought into Texas and blended with limited amounts of Texas honey. Local bee keepers must compete each year with the traveling almond pollinating bees from California, who come in and drop 500 hives on top of native bee keepers, whose hives then are struggling to find enough forage for survival. Don't assume that Texas is in the lead in any apiary related market.

IMHO, what killed Wordstar was IBM's keyboard that moved the control key from the left pinky finger down to the bottom row. I loved Wordstar, but that keyboard disenhancement was designed to slow down we Wordstar touch typists.

Vim. And I know that some folks think it's just a text editor, but I use it to create text I may copy into Word or other applications for formatting. Too easy.

_The Mote In God's Eye_ provides another perspective to space-faring races that might have differing constraints than we think we have.

If yours is truly a large organization with a lot of assets in a lot of locations.

Agree. My card reads, "Data Specialist," but I tell most folks who ask what I do that I'm a "computer yo-yo" and they're good with that.

For us myopics, an app that used the autofocus feature of the camera to adjust text size on presets by me such that I can read the fine print.

Reminiscent of that classic Sci-Fi book _The Adolescence of P-1_

Good list at http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Scie nce/Scients.htm

my nominees:

Madame Curie, Galielo, Copernicus, Tycho Brahae, Messier, John Wesley Powell, Roy Chapman Andrews, Hubbell, Michaelson & Morley, Lavoiser, Mendeleev, Werner Von Braun, Goddard, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington Carver, Admiral Hyman Rickover, Charles Darwin, Freud, Watt, Archimedes, Da Vinci, Amundsen, Peary, Lewis & Clark, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wilbur & Orville, Rudolph Diesel, Thomas Edison, Marconi

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