Rich Alderson wrote: Rich, I think you are doing good stuff, and Paul Allen is doing interesting things with his money. No offense was intended. As an engineer it is always tempting to make fun of the marketing blandness that creates things like: "Vulcan creates and advances a variety of world-class endeavors and high impact initiatives that change and improve the way we live, learn, do business, and experience the world." Engineers in collusion with patent attorneys produce their own version of this. In an attempt to create super broad claims, the resulting overreaching blandness ends up not really describing something specific. Hopefully, the thought process that has effected a compact yet meaningful stream of multi-purpose ASCII symbols on your information display device has conveyed with greater clarity the original semi-whimsical statement which was formerly intended.