some already know, and some are just learning, but all will recognize sooner or later that i am a huge fan of the alias Bucko Fancypants. its a name i started using way back when, and just kind of stuck around because of people like Pete and games like the Sims, and that welcome screen that cell phones come with. for some reason or another i always write Bucko Fancypants there. the user name on my puter says bucko. its not even my name! who knows. it turns out, thats what happens when left to myself. incidentally, am i alone in finding the expression "it turns out" to be incredibly useful? it allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. it's great. it's hugely better than its predecessors "i read somewhere that..." or the craven "they say that..." because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on a brand new, ground breaking research, but that it is research in which you yourself were intimately involved. but again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight. we'll see how far we get with this one. carry on.