Thank you Drew...and as with most bits of 2nd-hand information, I was told the technology had been "tested and proven" throughout Guatemala, and that the first bull-blown US test would involve sending a digital rabbit from Woods Hole to Torrey Pines, or something like that. (Sorry, that's a standing joke between my son and myself...we listened patiently one afternoon some 8 years ago while a normally lucid (but suspect)neighbor carefully explained how NASA and the Aussies had a secret contract to digitize rabbits and send them back and forth. Most got through, he confided, except when the lab flunkies forgot to remove the little metal clips in their ears. My son, or course, thought it was a great idea. Jumped right in there, he did. If you could digitize rabbits, he concluded you could save 'em on disk. And if you could do it with rabbits, why not dogs. Wanna take your dog for a walk...just take your disk outside and throw it around a few times. No need for the scooper, either. The neighbor was in his 50's, the kid was 12, and could barely keep from laughing. VBG :))) Today, he's a chem major at Oregon, calls once in a while. Last time was to tell me about the chromosonal mixup with the white rabbits and the black mice. Real setback.
I can't stand much more of this. |
