I guess, you missed my point on abra cadabra, Jay. Alchemy (as an abra cadabra suggestion by the undersigned) is changing anything into gold. The next logical step: the story of Midas with his golden hands, that changed everything they touched into gold. You get up in the morning, want to brush your teeth, the brush turns golden, want to take a leak, your ... you get the idea.
I'm probably boring the readership stiff by all these double- and triple-entendres. Fact is, I am bored (watching CNN, Sports channel etc - Gads, there was Gone with a wind on this afternoon - in this d*n airport lounge of ours). All the time the zodiac is clicking on and there's some Titanic holding on to its course...
The best I can manage in brainstorming up abra cadabra candidates, is avatar technology / level / dimension / 2010 break out ("beam me up Scotty" as one of a miriad of avatar aspects, just to ring some old rusty bells). Still, I guess I'll pass and let the others come up with some other ideas.
Tranquillidad is good, hombre. I'm still up 10% on the year, which means nothing to do a gorilla dance about, otoh still respectable, given what happened in 2001.
Tomorrow I'll go through my garden and see which flowers are supposed to stay around in 2002. There's quite a few wishful-thinking puts reaching out into the middle and late 2002. As French generation 68 proclaimed "Soyons realistes, demendons l'impossible" - let's stay down-to-earth and ask for impossible -.
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