So here's a sort of funny story, true, from Vilnius that time. I'm in the ConocoPhillips demo of how a big oil company uses Pythonic tools as a part of a video pipeline (sort of a pun) connecting Ecofisk to shore managers, big screening room, lots of eye candy, you've probably seen places like it. So like if a ship is pulling up, that'll be there on screen, to scale, looking very ship like, and even bobbing up and down in the waves, rather dramatically in a storm (in which case, maybe try docking later?). At this point, this professor to my left, from Italy, semi-explodes saying there's no way to solve all those partial differential equations about fluid dynamics in real time (he's right) and sort of foaming at the mouth thinking what a breakthrough this must be, like playing Doom for the first time, you could just see the Exxon / NUMB3RS crypto bonanza, like Springer-Verlag on steroids, spilling out of his thought balloon. Meanwhile we non-mathematicians were muttering stupid stuff, like we'd just come from Pixar like "it's just a fucking cartoon" but we held our tongues, not wanting to be impolite (especially me, in a stupid suit like I thought would help me "blend in" in Lithuania, like what the hell did I know: I poke vicious fun at myself in the caption to this picture (following URL)). http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/1022917395/in/set-7215760124888266... Kirby