re: LOL. yes, I swear I am a programmer.
Hey, I've got nothing against Aristotle. After all, he was Ayn Rand's favorite philosopher. ;)
One of the interesting things to me about the television shows/books "Connections" and "Ascent of Man" were the stories about people, often eccentric, who had set out to do one thing, and ended up becoming famous for something else entirely. Hell, how many geniuses AREN'T screwballs to some extent?
If you don't have a preview function, I fervently take back my crack about it. You are doing a damn sight better in HTML than I would without that handy checking device (thanks again, Robert!)