I had an online quiz? Oh now I remember. It must have been one of those times I was intentionally trying to divert the conversation from any discussion of science.

Hey, Billion, are you still out there? If so, I hope you are at least finding all this amusing. I miss you, and Mary-Maya and Diane from Gilroy and Lowell and the rest of the old crowd.

John, You can relax about the inscription: it is unsolvable; waste no more of your precious time. The one I posted isn't.

Canie, what does it cost you to keep this board up and running? I've been here since '99 and would be happy to send a modest contribution to defray costs for all your hard work over the years. Someone started a similar drive on a different non-Yahoo board: We all sent $5.00. The owner was very grateful, but there were 800 of us. What would be reasonable? If we eat your bandwidth, the least we can do is leave a tip.

We can do it by mail, just like regular humanoids over in back alleys.

Keep on truckin'. And John, if you do want more RC's just have Amazon send some used ones sent my way. Happy to personalize it to your liking. Nothing like sitting upstairs in some huge bookstore in Seattle and signing 800 copies in one sitting. After that, even I forgot how to sign my name.

Cathryn