A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careered almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do? "I know", said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way." "No, no", said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way." "Well", said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again." There is something sinister about this whole thing: 666 is exactly 2.138 : times the height of the pyramid of Cheops and if we multiply the height : of the pyramid by 3.36 million, we get the EXACT, let me repeat that - : EXACT - distance to the moon. This next part is much more than just mere : coincidence: if you drop the zeros off 3.36 million and then add the 3 to : the 36, you get a figure which is EXACTLY equal to the age that Bill : Gates would have been on his 39th birthday. This provides CONCLUSIVE proof : that Bill Gates is either an extraterrestrial or a pyramid. : Nostradamus William. ********************INTERNETWORKING THE DESKTOP********************* Internet In A Box Technical Support iboxtech@spry.com SPRY, Inc. http://www.spry.com 316 Occidental Ave. So Ste 200 (206) 447-0958 voice Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 447-9008 fax ********************************************************************