...Nevertheless, I am inquisitive about who is this "Greg Truby" ...Is he/she one of our board members ? Or is it an alien / imaginary character or something ? When I read about a discussion which involves "Greg Truby" in it...everything seems to be so topsy-turvy
I was originally a simple nihilistic philosophical construct dreamt up by a second class literature professor after having hit a bong that had no been properly cleaned and had developed a hallucinogenic fungus in the tubing. He jotted down my initial outline on a soiled brown paper grocery sack while firing down a bag of stale Doritos and Twinkies that were well beyond their expiration date.
It was the late sixties and campuses were giving out doctorates for all sorts of suspect theses, and my progenetor turned me in as such. I sat, forgotten on library shelves, for two decades; until I was dusted off by a grad student in the mid-eighties. He used me as the basis of his own thesis on a possible weapon to use against the quickly developing field of Artificial Intelligence -- Ersatz Idiocy.
The thesis was forwarded to the Pentagon, turned into a project and classified. My original funding was filed as "baking goods to help the Contras". Later, under the Clinton administration I was re-classified under "Bubba's beer budget" and my access to resources grew exponentially.
Under the Bush administration I initially thrived, using my Ersatz Idiocy algorithms to develop most of the administration's foreign policy. However, the Executive branch eventually determined that I was redundant and took over all of my anti-Intelligent functions and cut me loose.
I drifted for a while; eventually landing in South Dakota, where I answered a "help-wanted" ad to be Tracy's pool boy. However, apparently, there was some type of "maximum hirsuteness" threshold which I exceeded. She did say I was well suited for a shovel-wielding job in the barn [which I declined]. But my meeting Tracy led me to MrExcel.com where I have since loitered, hoping to return to Wash. D.C. after the Nov. '08 elections.
And now that that's is settled:
- Congratulations, Mr. Smith! A *******jack job old boy.
- Stormseed and I did indeed cross threads, twice. Once on the DRAFT thread where he seems to have taken umbrage at my habit of exploring tangental topics. And last May, when discussing the Wiki and file uploads.
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