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[CraigD]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

Suit up rocketeers, I will be back in town soon.

Your return cannot come too soon, IMHO

In the absence of a ringleader, I’ve slacked off completely on the Google X prize, having in short time built a nice framework, in the past 60 days I’ve done nothing to my MUMPS-based simulator to add the modules needed to actually run a guidance program for an earth orbit-to-landing. I’m all thought, no action!

At a New Year’s party, I discovered that a semi-professional astronomer friend is actually a professional vacuum pump salesman. So the prospect of actually being able to create my own little box of moon-like vacuum in my basement seems, if not certainly within my mechanical grasp, at least affordable.

Now, if only the pesky Payment Card Industry (PCI) would stop pestering me at work, I’d surely have all the time I need… The nerve of those multi-trillion dollar industry councils – do they think we have nothing better to do than protect their highly profitable participating organizations from losses due to credit card fraud?! My business is supposed to be enhancing medical quality of care, damnit!