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Quality

Quality is the nature of business.

Here at Superconducting Microelectronic Unified Resource Functionality Supervisors, we believe in Quality. Not just quality, but Quality. We care enough to hit that hard-to-reach shift key on our keyboards just to bring that Q directly to you. And we aren't bringing you QUALITY, just to prove that we aren't using the caps-lock key to make our lives easier. No. Sheer Quality.

It occurs to me that the initials of Corner Of My Eye are COME. This means something. This is important.

So, am I going to See (TM) any of you this week? I'm risking my life on Sunday, so you might want to get your Alloni-watching in now.

(Hang gliding. Not jumping off bridges. Or trying to take candy from a baby.)

I must be a repressed homosexual. That would explain everything.

(I'm just going to let you wonder about that.)

Brian? You all better? Do I need to send mystical healing waves at you? (I can do it. I'm not bluffing. Don't push me, man, or I just might.)

Everything I Know, I Learned From My Cat: 1) While yawning, loll your tongue out. 2) Chew on people's scalps. 3) If someone wants to pet you, be someplace else as fast as possible.

I watched Japanese soap opera last week. It involved the trials and tribulations of a tofu maker. He had left his family and home to chase after another woman. When she left him, he stayed in the gutter, doing menial jobs. When his family came to visit, he made them go away. Only when a friend brought him some tofu, from a competitor of his, that was pretty good, but not quite as white and fresh as his used to be, did he go back to his home to make tofu.

I didn't make any of that up.

We also saw Iron Chef, which is a Japanese show in which two chefs (the Iron Chef and the challenger) get given an ingredient that they don't know about in advance, and they are given 1 hour to make as good a meal as possible, in which every dish must contain the ingredient. Then the foods get taste-tested by 4 judges, each one of which giving each chef a number of points between 1 and 20. The points are added up, and the winner is declared. If there is a tie, they go on to a special 1/2 cook-off with a different ingredient. (In the first episode I saw the ingredient was Shirako (fish eggs from a specific type of fish) and they had a graphic in the corner with the words "Battle Shirako" on in. Battle Shirako sounds like anime, doesn't it? "Our puny fighter jets are not working. Bring out - the Battle Shirako!")

I didn't make that up either.

Except for the anime bit.

I think I am daim bramaged.

And my feet hurt.

I'll send more later. Worry you need not, yes?