Here is the disturbing song with an even more disturbing video! :)

Warning: There is strong profanity in this video!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw

dude . . . even David Lynch would find THAT video "disturbing" . . .
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(i sure hope miley cyrus doesn't get exposed to it. it could go mainstream.)

Below are some more amazing pictures for a NatGeo contest!

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Smile from Mentawai Hunter - Photograph and caption by Mohd Ismail

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Bromo Tengger National Park - Photo and caption by Dennis Walton

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Master of Disguise - Photo and caption by Graham McGeorge

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Alive - Photo and caption by Jonathan Tucker

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Castelluccio di Norcia - Photograph and caption by Mauro Maione

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White Rim Storm - Photograph and caption by Klaus Priebe

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What a Sheep! - Photograph and caption by Andres Beregovich

A few more amazing photos here: Your Shot: A sneak peek at National Geographic's contest submissions (http://news.yahoo.com/photos/your-shot-a-sneak-peek-at-national-geographic-s-contest-submissions-slideshow/)

World Spookiest Cemeteries. . . Anyone ever been any of these?

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Highgate Cemetery

London’s famous cemetery is the final resting place of many public figures, and is designated as both a nature reserve and a point of historic interest. Also referenced in the original Dracula story, it is rumoured to have been the inspiration for the spooky setting in many versions that followed.


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Catacombs of San Callisto

A visit to Rome's catacombs is a must for anyone interested in the history of the city and early Catholic Church. Touring the narrow passageways, you can see where early Christians were buried, celebrated Mass, and, in some cases, were violently attacked.


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Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery

Famous for its hauntings and horrors, a visit to Bachelor’s Grove takes a brave soul. This abandoned cemetery is located in a very small township near Chicago, and is well known for sightings of monks in robes and the appearance of a farmhouse that floats, shrinks, and disappears altogether.


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Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Paris's The Père-Lachaise Cemetery has a strange history. It was originally shunned because it had not been blessed by the Roman Catholic Church. In an effort that is both eerie and intriguing, the administrators began collecting the remains of famous public figures as a marketing strategy in 1804.


A few more here: Yahoo! (http://travel.yahoo.com/photos/world-s-spookiest-cemeteries-1381873021-slideshow/world-s-spookiest-cemeteries-photo-1381872722012.html)

Public bathrooms become posh 600-square-foot London home

'Some people try to avoid public bathrooms at all costs. British architect Laura Jane Clark wanted to live in one.

A former underground public restroom turned cozy, upscale flat in south London is Clark’s brainchild. The now 34-year-old discovered the abandoned bathrooms while wandering around the Crystal Palace neighborhood back in 2005.

“I just kind of fell in love with them,” she said. “They were all boarded up, but I could peek through and see the existing space and features. It was quite interesting to me, even though it was full of rubbish and just disgusting at the time.”

The 600-square-foot space was built in the late 1920s and had last been used sometime in the 1980s. It had a space for men’s and women’s toilets, a skylight, the proper electrical and gas wiring, and, of course, plumbing.

“I love working with odd spaces and making them different—especially in neglected areas,” she said. “The idea of working out how a space can be used for years to come is fascinating to me.”

In addition to the massive amount of work ahead of her, it took months of convincing the local town council just to get the ball rolling.

“There were so many hurdles, and some council people were less enthusiastic about my ideas,” she said. “I spent a long time persuading them that this space should be saved and inhabited.”
The micro-rehab project cost Clark about $90,000, plus the $32,000 or so that the property cost.

She served as the architect, of course, but mostly she got her hands dirty as a laborer. She reminisces about times she would pop into the local café covered in concrete, and how she became known as “Laura Loos” and “Toilet Girl.”

The extensive renovations kicked off in 2011 and were completed last year. Everything from heavy bleaching to knocking down walls to reinvent the use of the space was part of transforming the eerie, vile basement into a warm, luxurious living space with an echo of the past'

Smell was definitely an issue at first -- not just because it's a bathroom, but because it was a bathroom in such disrepair' Read more here: Yahoo! (http://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/public-bathrooms-become-posh-600-square-foot-london-195335079.html)

Here are a few pics

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More pictures here: Yahoo! (http://homes.yahoo.com/photos/photos-amazing-100k-conversion-of-public-restrooms-into-posh-600-square-foot-home-1382723074-slideshow/11-kitchen-after-photos-amazing-100k-conversion-of-public-restrooms-into-posh-600-square-foot-home-photo-1382721667303.html)

A couple cool barn homes from a Yahoo article. Note- these are all for sale!

''Weston, CT
119 Kettle Creek Rd, Weston, CT
For sale: $775,000

The Brown Barn on Kettle Creek was built in the mid-19th century and converted into a residence in 1927.''

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''Carbondale, CO
(undisclosed address), Carbondale, CO
For sale: $1.35 million

This home was built from barn siding milled in Wyoming in 1902.''

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More here: Yahoo! (http://homes.yahoo.com/photos/yahoo-homes-of-the-week-barn-style-homes-for-sale-1382725362-slideshow/yahoo-homes-of-the-week-barn-style-homes-for-sale-photo-1382724041477.html;_ylt=Ajc3kfZxzgvnLE3vN1X9QZ1QR_ N_;_ylu=X3oDMTNrODZmNHExBHBrZwM1Y2EzMDlkMC0zZDlmLT ExZTMtOWQ3Ny1kOGU0OTU2MjY1NmUEc2VjA01lZGlhQ2Fyb3Vz ZWxQaG90b0dhbGxlcnlDQVhIUgR2ZXIDNWNiNGU0MjAtM2Q5Zi 0xMWUzLWJmZmUtMjIzMjc3M2Q5NmJj;_ylg=X3oDMTBhYWM1a2 sxBGxhbmcDZW4tVVM-;_ylv=3)

There Are (Probably) Billions of Earth-Like Planets in the Universe - Megan Garber - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/there-are-probably-billions-of-earth-like-planets-in-the-universe/281138/)


Here's more potential evidence against notions of Earthian exceptionalism: The team estimates that 22 percent—essentially one in five—of sun-like stars have potentially habitable Earth-size planets. (Not all of those planets, however, may be rocky or feature liquid water, a presumed prerequisite for life. And it's worth noting, as well, that the margin of error for that stat is plus or minus 8 percent.) Caveats aside, however, that is still an astoundingly large number. It means, as the Washington Post points out, that the Milky Way galaxy alone "could harbor tens of billions of rocky worlds where water might be liquid at the surface." Yep, tens of billions. Which is a lot of maybe-Earths.

It's ignorant to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

It's ignorant to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

True . . . true . . . Yet what about that alien intelligent life(-form) that is dedicated to the proposition that They are, in fact, the only intelligent life in the universe and will stop at nothing to make sure their viewpoint cannot be disputed?

I really think we need to stop shooting V'gers at them and, instead, beam only reruns of Honey Boo Boo, That 70's Show and Three's Company, in their direction, so's they will know that we aren't an intelligent target worthy of their attention.

It's ignorant to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

Didn't somebody once say: "I'm not sure what's more frightening - the thought that we are the only intelligent life in the universe, or that we are not."

Shortest Horror Story Ever:
The last man on earth sat alone in a room.
There came a knock on the door.

(all credit for that to Harlan Ellison or whomever . . . =)

True . . . true . . . Yet what about that alien intelligent life(-form) that is dedicated to the proposition that They are, in fact, the only intelligent life in the universe and will stop at nothing to make sure their viewpoint cannot be disputed?

I really think we need to stop shooting V'gers at them and, instead, beam only reruns of Honey Boo Boo, That 70's Show and Three's Company, in their direction, so's they will know that we aren't an intelligent target worthy of their attention.

The technology to travel solar system to solar system would be super advanced. Even if they could travel to earth, would they want to? To them we are probably the equivalent of what ants are to us; miniscule and insignificant.

The only thing that would be of any use to such an advanced species in our solar system would probably be our sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDtbTsmJcE

The technology to travel solar system to solar system would be super advanced. Even if they could travel to earth, would they want to? To them we are probably the equivalent of what ants are to us; miniscule and insignificant.

The only thing that would be of any use to such an advanced species in our solar system would probably be our sun.

Probably so . . .
Our sun would be, like, a billion billion times more important to Them than, say, The Borg, on a Cosmic scale.
And "assimilation" isn't in their vocabulary. Eradication is. Something that The Borg found out much to their dismay.
(on account of They are the only form of intelligent life in the universe . . . or eventually will be.)

This is probably why I don't invest a lot of concern over The Federal Deficit or some OKC Planner moving to greener pastures.

The technology to travel solar system to solar system would be super advanced. Even if they could travel to earth, would they want to? To them we are probably the equivalent of what ants are to us; miniscule and insignificant.

The only thing that would be of any use to such an advanced species in our solar system would probably be our sun.

Or Kevin Durant...

How microprocessors are made. It's not big on technical details and is a bit sales-pitchy, but interesting nonetheless.
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How folks move around cities during the day (and night).An Intriguingly Detailed Animation of How People Move Around a City - Emily Badger - The Atlantic Cities (http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/11/intriguingly-detailed-animation-how-people-move-around-city/7490/)

ActiveMaps (http://maps.synthicity.com/activemaps/)

Didn't fact check these, so not sure which(if any) are true. But, truly amazing if so!

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The picture of the knee (Number 2, above), reminds me of a little work-related accident I suffered back in the 80s.

I injured my knee in such a way that it swelled up to about twice its size. I hobbled around on it for a couple of weeks and it wasn't getting any better. I went to my trusty, ex-army sawbones, Dr. H.J. Freede (the guy who patched me up after a motorcycle wreck back in '76) to see what could be done. "Drain It," he said. His assistant, who I refer to as Igor, came into the room with this huge syringe and a maniacal grin on his face. I seem to recall that he was actually cackling. Dr. Freede came in after awhile, shot the knee up with some local anesthetic and proceeded to jam in the big syringe needle and withdraw what seemed to be a LOT of dark fluid. He'd empty the syringe into a bucket between withdrawals. It sounds sort of bad, but I have to say that the release of the painful pressure made the whole experience a lot better than it might appear. When I walked out of his office my knee felt as good as new. I still have fond memories of Dr. Freede: He was gruff and looked like The Monopoly Man but he sure knew his doctorin' . . . .

Oh! And the third one from the bottom reminds me of a little encounter I had with a spinning lawnmower blade about 8 years ago. I didn't go the doctor that time, but the tip of one finger is like new and the one that REALLY got whacked skinned over and sort of grew back close to normal. Thankfully, it was on my right hand rather than the one I use to press the strings on a guitar.

That girl in pic 3 looks like The Elf Princess. And I don't mean that as an insult.

Ouch, hopefully you weren't riding around Penn and Memorial when you crashed(wrecked) ;)

As for the girl in pic 3, I visually enjoy her. She has a face I wouldn't mind waking up to every morning. Not sure about her personality though, I have questions about her stomach lining; just not sure if her stomach lining and my stomach lining connect, naw I mean?

Suffer from Ornithophobia...
This sounds like a Hitchcock movie.

Last weekend I saw someone who resembled RadicalModerate. It was...
well... almost political.

Since everyone was packing I wasn't overly concerned. Just scared.

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Epic Split
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Epic Split Parody :p
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Grasping Large Numbers (http://www.ehd.org/science_technology_largenumbers.php)


Money Stacks

One way to better understand large numbers is to compare the heights of stacks of varying numbers of dollar bills. The thickness of a single one dollar bills measures .0043 inches or .0000000679 miles.

The height of a stack of 100 one dollar bills measures .43 inches.

The height of a stack of 1,000 one dollar bills measures 4.3 inches.

The height of a stack of 1,000,000 one dollar bills measures 4,300 inches or 358 feet – about the height of a 30 to 35 story building.

The height of a stack of 100,000,000 (one hundred million) one dollar bills measures 35,851 feet or 6.79 miles.

The height of a stack of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) one dollar bills measures 358,510 feet or 67.9 miles.

Mad stacks, yo!

Gravity visualized


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg

Site mentioned in the video above. Pretty interesting scientific simulators.
New Sims - PhET Simulations (http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new)

Gravity visualized


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg

I think I saw something like this at The Omniplex once.
It impressed me then, too. Thank you.

The guy in the vid reminds me of a kinder, gentler, version of my 8th Grade Earth Sciences Teacher, Basil G. Dean. (you didn't f-ck with Basil G. Dean, as compared to the misery we inflicted on Mr. Anderson The Art Teacher, and that was OK . . . at least to us. =)

Oh! Here's another scientific resource to duplicate the explanation: American Science & Surplus : Items Just Off the Truck (http://www.sciplus.com/)
Tip: Every time you hit the refresh button you get a new array of stuff for sale. Complete with new ad copy.

Thanks Diggyba. I bet that guy's a great teacher. His students will remember that lesson for the rest of their lives. Hopefully those other teachers in the video were inspired.

Perhaps a bit morbid but a good time waster.
List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths)

I'm sure most of us have seen this video, but it's worth watching again.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM&feature=youtu.be

In One Second on the Internet (http://onesecond.designly.com/)

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Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps - IT Security


(http://www.itsecurity.com/features/51-things-not-on-google-maps-071508/)

Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps - IT Security


(http://www.itsecurity.com/features/51-things-not-on-google-maps-071508/)

Speaking of the number 51 I didn't see Area 51 on the list.

Speaking of the number 51 I didn't see Area 51 on the list.

The government has recently admitted that Area 51 exists.

The government has recently admitted that Area 51 exists.

But this is just a smokescreen to divert people from looking for Area 52.

But this is just a smokescreen to divert people from looking for Area 52.So let me get this straight, let me get this straight. . . . you're telling me, there has been 50 other areas we don't know about?

15 Handy Google Search Tricks | BizzNtech (http://www.bizzntech.com/2008/04/14/15-handy-google-search-tricks)

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I met her in about 1979 after she had delivered a speech. She spoke about what later came to be known as distributed computing. She said that when our ancestors encountered a tree so large that one ox couldn't move it that their solution was to use two oxen rather than wait to grow a bigger ox. At the end of her speech when people could go up and meet her she was giving out little pieces of wire that represented a nanosecond.

Also wrote many lines of COBOL code, too.


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Amazing Grace!

Amazing Grace!
How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

... Also wrote many lines of COBOL code, too.
Oy vey! COBOL drove me nutz! Did you ever enter it into the key punch
cards? Talk about an eternity.

For the most part, I enjoy Google's salutes.

Here's today's. Hopefully it's not too late.
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A sad statistic.

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Oy vey! COBOL drove me nutz! Did you ever enter it into the key punch
cards? Talk about an eternity.No I didn't start writing COBOL until 1979and by that time we had page editors that we could use on a display. I was at OU before Merrick was built in 1970 and really never gave computing a second thought. I had a slide rule though - a 12" one that I wore on my belt. The cool guys had 6" pocket slide rules and the really cool guys had circular slide rules.

There was an IBM System/360 I think in the Engineering building at OU and people would get their stacks of cards punched and then wait in line to run them. Seems like to me it might have been BAL but don't really remember. I know I did program in BAL when I started programming.

Things were very crude then but very exciting.

No I didn't start writing COBOL until 1979...
Hey, that's a couple of years after I returned to academia. The Pirates
won the World Series and I was worried about playing Smetma's
Bartered Bride, which we called the Battered Broad.

I was on the front page of the Daily Oklahoman playing cello. Hey, I'm a
bassist, but only because I could make more Geetus, i.e more $$$. Chick
photogs are nice but nothing beats paying the bills.

Viva La Basso!

This is what I call true dedication!

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I was an assembler programmer from 1965 till 1981. Autocoder in the first couple of years, then BAL in the latter years. I did learn COBOL in the late 60's so I used both COBOL and assembler. I used to write my COBOL program on "coding sheets" and turn them over to the keypunch operator to punch them on cards for me.
C. T.

No I didn't start writing COBOL until 1979and by that time we had page editors that we could use on a display. I was at OU before Merrick was built in 1970 and really never gave computing a second thought. I had a slide rule though - a 12" one that I wore on my belt. The cool guys had 6" pocket slide rules and the really cool guys had circular slide rules.

There was an IBM System/360 I think in the Engineering building at OU and people would get their stacks of cards punched and then wait in line to run them. Seems like to me it might have been BAL but don't really remember. I know I did program in BAL when I started programming.

Things were very crude then but very exciting.

COBOL was on the downslide by the time I got to OU in the late 80's. I had my COBOL class - it was still required - but I never went near it again in school or at work.

I did my assembler on that same 360 at OU, and loved it. Never did the punch cards, though :) As an engineering student, I had an account on the ECN (a PDP11/70 running Unix back then) and you could use RJE to send card images created in a regular editor as remote jobs to the 360, and the 360 would send the results back. It was sweetness....to a lot of other students during that time, the fact that I never used a punchcard deck made me a bit of a wizard (bwahahahahah)...

Lots of computing majors from the Arts and Sciences department had no way of doing RJE like that, and I saw LOTS of card decks floating around :)

I think of that time as a bit of a "golden era" in computing, just ahead of the PC era, and somehow software development just isn't the same. No desire to understand how systems work, or to try to put things together artfully or from a systems perspective...but I digress... :)

I was an assembler programmer from 1965 till 1981. Autocoder in the first couple of years, then BAL in the latter years. I did learn COBOL in the late 60's so I used both COBOL and assembler. I used to write my COBOL program on "coding sheets" and turn them over to the keypunch operator to punch them on cards for me.
C. T.Thats how I remember coding BAL on sheets. Then someone had to keypunch or later key it in for mag cards. One mag card was 256 bytes. I am certain that sounds funny to current programmers.

But my first programs only had 4K bytes to run in so we had to write all these overlays and include a process to load and unload them.

Probably the most complex thing I wrote had to do with operating a ledger feed and posting system.

The great thing about mag cards was I could code, compile, and test really quickly as in a few hours contrasted to punch cards or tape that might take a few days or weeks.

I really liked BAL.

I think of that time as a bit of a "golden era" in computing, just ahead of the PC era, and somehow software development just isn't the same. No desire to understand how systems work, or to try to put things together artfully or from a systems perspective...but I digress... :)

Can you expound on this, particularly the last sentence?

I think of that time as a bit of a "golden era" in computing, just ahead of the PC era, and somehow software development just isn't the same. No desire to understand how systems work, or to try to put things together artfully or from a systems perspective...but I digress... :)
I agree with that and think it is insightful.

Programming was more a way of thinking about solving a problem. It is amazing to me how much easier it is today. But, of course, we continue to work on increasingly complex problems, too.

Flintysooner,
I worked for the government, (big bucks $$$$), and it was a vital place for the military, so the first computer I worked on in 1965 was an IBM 1401 with 16k, disk and tape drives. It was considered the largest 1401 produced by IBM. I then moved t a 1410 and then a 360 model 50, the second one delivered by IBM. we were coding queries on the 360 which was a predecessor (one of many) to sql, and that was in 1967/68. By the way, when I first started coding, I learned that bal was almost freeform so I didn't pay attention to the accepted format except for the required items, the label/tag had to be in column 1, comment indicator (*) in 7, continue on next card in 72, and we put date in 73-80. But after a couple of programs, trying to debug from an assembly listing with freeform really stunk and from then on, I followed protocol. Sorry, I knows this is boring to non techies, just that some of these comments brought back some good (and not so good) memories.
C. T.
Thats how I remember coding BAL on sheets. Then someone had to keypunch or later key it in for mag cards. One mag card was 256 bytes. I am certain that sounds funny to current programmers.

But my first programs only had 4K bytes to run in so we had to write all these overlays and include a process to load and unload them.

Probably the most complex thing I wrote had to do with operating a ledger feed and posting system.

The great thing about mag cards was I could code, compile, and test really quickly as in a few hours contrasted to punch cards or tape that might take a few days or weeks.

I really liked BAL.

Originally Posted by SoonerDave View Post
I think of that time as a bit of a "golden era" in computing, just ahead of the PC era, and somehow software development just isn't the same. No desire to understand how systems work, or to try to put things together artfully or from a systems perspective...but I digress... Can you expound on this, particularly the last sentence?I think I understand at least in part what he means. Back then it was a real adventure to get to work on a different OS and different hardware and programming languages. We were adventurers and explorers as much as anything else. So if a new OS became available or a new programming language or new hardware then we all took every opportunity to jump in and learn the entirety of the new thing. Since we needed some reason to program we eagerly looked for any problem that could be solved with a computer program. The programs were good excuses for us to delve into the OS and the hardware and the language.

Don't get me wrong. We all wrote a lot of useful programs. You have to remember that this was before the computer was widely used so most any task you thought of hadn't been done yet.

Together we probably wrote a few million examples of Tic Tac Toe and maybe that many spreadsheet programs. Some of us, a lot of us probably, wanted to write the entire systems from the OS clear to the end user interface and all the applications in between. It was like a big new playground with a lot of new and interesting toys to try.

I think I would never have been happy writing just a piece of something. It was an exciting time.

Flintysooner,
I worked for the government, (big bucks $$$$), and it was a vital place for the military, so the first computer I worked on in 1965 was an IBM 1401 with 16k, disk and tape drives. It was considered the largest 1401 produced by IBM. I then moved t a 1410 and then a 360 model 50, the second one delivered by IBM. we were coding queries on the 360 which was a predecessor (one of many) to sql, and that was in 1967/68. By the way, when I first started coding, I learned that bal was almost freeform so I didn't pay attention to the accepted format except for the required items, the label/tag had to be in column 1, comment indicator (*) in 7, continue on next card in 72, and we put date in 73-80. But after a couple of programs, trying to debug from an assembly listing with freeform really stunk and from then on, I followed protocol. Sorry, I knows this is boring to non techies, just that some of these comments brought back some good (and not so good) memories.
C. T.I am glad you posted it CT and I totally understand.