thermistor Q yeh, and yeh to the Thompson-Hall Effect, and anything that makes current flow down a thermal gradient or heat flow down an electric field gradient or whatever turns you on. 000201 ... pipedream reminds me of thermidor..that's a sauce, is it? madame de thermidor..historical woman, mistress of louis the 14, if im not wrong. women controlling everything, puppeteers of the future. 030821 ... oldephebe yes yes! nice catch pipedream such a breadth but yeah good ol' L14th tyrant that he was, sun king and all that - even he had to yeild some to this master of the game - and the game is POWER! why did i just captitalize that? got a little carried away - don't like discussing powere and philosophy too deeply, brings out those arrogant tendencies - and I have no reason to be arrogant - everything is a gift, a splendid gift from the Creator - seriously I'm not being flippant now or anything - I'm just hopped up on Dr. Pepper and 36hours without sleep ah but to be sorrounded by such grandeur to be in the Palace at Versailles (sp) yea that sounded really decadent and pretentious and kind of foppish as well - I forget her name but ah *pipedream* very impressive -okay who was the chineses mistress of the chin kingdom who wielded power for decades, her ruthlessness was unmatched, her penchant for theatre and her understanding of pyschology - oh what a fearsome prodigy - I forget her name though --------------------------------------- ... 030821 ... oldephebe i recall vaguely that she not only orchestrated the deaths of her mates, best friend, but i think she also offed one of her children - ego,power ego, power, that's why I feed myself from the treasure of Light, or (l)ight, depending upon the situation - everyone has thier meat and mine is might not work for someone who is differently constituted, its all gooood 030821 ... pipedream oooh! this is triggering a memory! it sounds a lot like chingiz khan's mother, or guyuk's wife..one of the two. i forget chingiz's mother's name, something with an S. remarkable woman. its interesting to note that for all their in-chargeness the wives of the Khan ruled for a nice bit of time in the inbetween. but these women weren't chin. there was also a wonderful princess of the golden horde who never married, was a fantastic warrior and amazing wrestler. she challenged men to a match with a bet of horses. if she won, she got the horses. if she lost, she would marry the man. in the end, she had a LOT of horses ;) but i think you've got me there; i didn't cheat by looking it up, though O:D 030823 ... oldephebe yeah - i can't for the life of me remember exactly who i'm talking about and i guess i'm just too lazy to try and ferret out the information - still though like i said you've got an astonishingly eclectic breadth - 030823 what's it to you? who go blather from