RE: Need a word for...

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Janoff, Steve [mailto:Steve -dot- Janoff -at- Teradata -dot- com] 
[...]
> 
> I'm reminded of those scenes we've all seen in countless movies and TV
> shows, with a bunch of people gathered in the situation room 
> to watch a
> big screen with a bunch of triangles or other shapes representing
> planes, satellites, what have you, and they're focused on one in
> particular, which keeps fading in and out, and then it's gone -- "We
> lost it!"  Then some sort of catastrophe ensues.  But, never 
> fails, the
> hero (heroes, heroine[s]) saves the day and everyone cheers in the end
> because the thing goes back online or the planet is saved or whatever.
> 
> Try putting something like that in your documentation.  It might not
> solve the problem but it will punch up the script. :)
> 
> Good luck, Kevin (the ship is leaving, I've got to go help destroy the
> asteroid that's coming our way:).


I'd go with the chipping wedge, if I were you. 


So, um, I really _am_ gonna pay (and pay) for that brownie post, aren't I?


Well then, tonight I'm makin' brownies, and I'm not sharin'.


 - K

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