August, 2010, Posts of the Month

OK, first -- I am unworthy! I am unworthy! (reference to a barely remembered scene in Wayne's World in the presence of Alice Cooper is fully intended).Second, I am oh so reminded of so many episodes of The ScreenSavers on TechTV. Those geeks (Lord love them!) would go through that stuff! I remember what Patrick Norton had mounted multiple tera-byte drives in a single PC box and I just sat there geeking out! Then a gaming network, G4, bought them out. Leo LaPorte was the first to go! Every time I go to the Scottish games (Clan Donald, I am! A member of our clan at Loch Prado would visit the Scottish medievel encampment regularly with, "We are the Clan Donald! You will be assimilated! Resistence is futile!"), I see the Utilikilt booth at the Games and remember Patrick Norton! Of course, I also see Leo LaPorte in a kilt starting to spin and then abruptly stopping when the kilt starts flying too high -- lads, there's the old Reader's Digest joke about the British officer in a Highland Regiment (kilted, of course) who is advised by his mother to learn to sit like a lady; one of the things a lady who dances does is to spin-test her skirts, so a lad with a kilt needs to do the same thing.OK, here's the bottom line. Software is what animates the boxes. But if the hardware is not there, then the software can't do anything!