Hi Paul!

I didn't *know*, it came to me in a dream. Sorry the dream master neglected

to credit Dan Covill.

Regards,

Pete

At 12:19 PM 12/5/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Pete Theisen writes:

>

>> It was a URL. It loaded like the wind - no graphics, all

>> text. It was a web app called "The Thing". A little text

>> description was to the effect that Paul and Ed hoped we would

>> like this holiday gift to the community - an online

>> application checker/translator, along with the holiday wish

>> that this would help people get work done, understand all the

>> stuff we have to understand and maybe even make money. All

>> thought of sleep suddenly vanished.

>

>Pete, how in the world could you have known that Ed and I have

>actually been working on such a "Thing"? It is a side-project

>to my "Thought Recorder and Full-Text Retrieval" project.

>

>The basic idea is that The Thing will solve all the world's

>problems, pretty simple when you think of it.

>

>Ed, you've been putting more work than I have into this. Do you

>think we'll have it done by XMAS?

>

>Oh, we need to also credit Dan Covill for some of the basic

>framework ideas.

>

><g><g><g>

>

>--

>Paul McSheep

>

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