Hey Rob great to see you back...congrats on your engagement! As you read through the previous logs you will see that Tony and Rudi have moved on for now, but you never know Time to get this team moving....Aklea runs the colors up the mast!

Another little bump for you folks.

Isn't the English language wonderful. Here is part of a cute email my daughter sent to me awhile back:
English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

Author unknown

Hope you enjoyed that.

Cheers.

Bill Velek

Thanks for the bump or should I say hump?

For you Mac users, you now can join the Seychelles TEAM (those zany and great Coconauts)!

Read here for all the info and downloads

Oh yes, you can still use your PC.

Name: Seychelles TEAM
BOINC Team Id: 4957

Happy Easter to all Coconauts - keep up the great crunching