And for a very good reason too, because the show is a history of post Civil War would be secessionist states. Ernest T reminds me of me, actually, his only motivation is girls, though he lacks the efficacy I have, and the name.
So, in the spirit of one up-manship, I want to present this: At San Jose State University, College of Engineering, one is supposed to do a senior project as a coup de gracias for the school. I chose something like, "voice-recognition operating systems for the challenged". After months of pretending to research and pretending to collaborate, visiting NASA Ames and then interviewing several people in order to clarify our specifications, we came up with pretty much a nice written report [which I wrote] and a nice visual presentation [which I gave], but without anything useful learned or produced. However, I would like to mention my inspiration for the device. It was Ray Rayner who had a little game every morning called "Pow!", where a kid would call in by telephone and then shout "Pow!" into it, where a mike would pick up the sound and move a "pong" paddle, or something like that. Early 80's I think, or the decade of 1970. "powpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpowpow!" "Barney! Your gun please. And the bullet too." Mark
