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$PLUG 🧪 is advancing next-generation electrolyzer technology designed to cut hydrogen production costs dramatically.

[narnia1000]

It has been five years since someone has posted here. I just thought it was time to do something about it. :)

[The Original dpb5!]

Hi DoubleBuy!

NICE to hear from you!

Just click on the Boards link, and then click on CREATE A NEW BOARD!

[DoubleBuy]

dpb5, meme, aloha and others.

does Dig still allow you to create your own message board?, if so could one of you point me in the right direction on how to create it!

Thanks in Advance, and Hello to all of you old dig/seek investors.

[The Original dpb5!]

WAY TO "GO", Mr. Kirsch!

!!!!!!!!

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=22387811

[DoubleBuy]

Hi Gang,

I ran across this article while doing some dd, and I thought you old Infoseekers might enjoy reading about our old Infoseek founder Steve Kirsh.

http://www.skirsch.com/stk.html

[The Original dpb5!]

Disney Buying PIXAR for $7.4 Billion...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11003466/

Hello, all my ole DIG friends!!

[The Original dpb5!]

Hi old DIG pals!

Just reminiscing here and wondering how everyone is doing?

Does anybody know what ever happened to Grandpadude???

[DoubleBuy]

Hi Gang,

aloha check out ARIA

anyone interested in a good Tech Stock, check out MCHX, the whole mgt crew is from the old GNET.

I've owned shares of MCHX since IPO...........$6.50 per share....:)))

They have filed for a secondary offering of stock, and I don't know what effect that will have on the stock price?

as always do your own dd, and good luck

[aloha2213]

Call Me Crazy If You Want To

I just off'd a bunch of old school tech stocks, csco, rfmd and orcl to name a few. Then I got into stem cell research and nano-technology. stem, gern, astm, avii, arwr and arwrw is what I bought. I figure these couldn't do worse than what I have already experienced. "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all" when it comes to investing. Any of you have any knowledge of these companies or the technology? Any tips or opinions or just gut feelings are appreciated.

Aloha

[The Original dpb5!]

No ridi, not serious about marriage really.

I, too, often wonder whatever happened to GrandpaDude.

[coolridi]

Happy Holidays to all of you from coolridi in Minneapolis with the temperature of six below zero and the windchill of nineteen below zero.

Where are you, DickMN? Thinking about hanging out at a nice coffee shop on Grand Ave?????

Help me find GrandpaDude...Hope he is alright.

Dave, are you serious about getting married? If so, when?

[The Original dpb5!]

I'll third that Aloha!

Bitter cold 8 degrees here tonight with windchill of minus 5F but nice and warm inside!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

[aloha2213]

I second that DB and Meme and of course Dej.

Have a safe healthy happy wonderful holiday.

[DoubleBuy]

A Special Holiday Wish for the old gang, Hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

PS meme, leave that Rot Gut Mash at home if you intend to drive....;)...LOL

[aloha2213]

"Sorry if I sound positively dismal, totally off topic (what the heck is the topic of this board anyway?), and otherwise preoccupied. <G>"

Meme

Now that the season approaches I hope you are feeling better.

What's the topic? Why DIG, of course. I DIG a pony. Can you DIG it? I DIG rock and roll music. Can you tell me what songs these DIG lines come from?

Good to see some folks still here.

Aloha

[Meme]

Re: Everyone getting divorced just when I am thinking marriage!
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You're thinking marriage?!?! Well, congrats, Dave. Don't take divorces as an ominous sign or anything. ;)

Seriously, we had a good thing going for a very, very long time, and I actually consider it (believe it or not) a very successful marriage. Now go figure that one out! LOL

So when are you thinking about popping the question?

[The Original dpb5!]

Everyone getting divorced just when I am thinking marriage!

There MUST be something in the water, somewhere! LOL

[Meme]

Re: Yoh, Dave

Pretty busy, but that's life...

-Was sortof on my way to Sweden for a tenured position at Gothenburg University. But with a divorce and an ex who didn't fancy to move to Sweden and me not fancying leaving my son behind, I'm building up to a staff position here at McGill University - running a smallish proteomics center that is about to start up. They want to bestove on me the title of 'manager', which I loathe... Not a title that belongs in a university setting if you ask me...
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Damn! I'm getting divorced, too. There must be something in the water these days. I do know that down here there's a touch more arsenic in the drink, but I didn't think Canada was having that problem. LOL

Good for you for staying in the country to keep near to your little boy. There's a scientist that I worked with from Holland who's going through a divorce because his wife didn't want to move there although he was losing his job here and had one there. He left behind three kids.

I haven't even told my son yet. This is his senior year and we're waiting until he's gotten through the whole college application process. He doesn't need extra worries now.

I'm so proud of him. He got a 1390 on his SAT's with a perfect 800 verbal. I wasn't about to screw up his concentration for that test. :)

[The Original dpb5!]

Yes! Sooooo DISNEY!

[dejgaard]

Funny add I just saw on Netscapes homepage:


I had to share this:
At the top of Netscapes homepage, there's an add trailer for ABC News (of course a Disney-thing, right?...)

It reads:
"ABC NEWS NOW
Click here to find out how to get up-to-the-minute Campaign trail coverage.
Introducing a groundbreaking way to get video news"

Hello... Anybody home at ABC?... Campaign trail coverage?... It's the 9th of November, folks!... It's all over!
What campaign are you ABC folks covering?... "Vote for Bush, last week"?...

This is ridiculous!
But then...: This is soooo Disney... Isn't it?...

Hah!

KD

[The Original dpb5!]

For ONEBGG's posts, you have to use the following

User Name: Gary
Password: Blues

Not quite sure why he does that, but he does. LOL

[The Original dpb5!]

hmmmm.....not sure why you are getting that error msg.

[The Original dpb5!]

Congrats!

Do you know what movie it is from?

[The Original dpb5!]

Ahhhh!

Go back to "My Settings" and make sure that PLAY EMBEDDED SOUNDS is also turned on!

[dejgaard]

From ONEBGG, I'm asked for username and ID. I tried to just click OK, but no music loaded... (On the country music board)

KD

[dejgaard]

That is to say: The message "Cannot open the file. Verify that the path and filename are correct and try again " I get from all postings by Harem Sheik. I don't get it from the few other posts - from those, I get nothing... no sound and no message... Except from your last one...

KD

[dejgaard]

... But otherwise, I get the message, now: "Cannot open the file. Verify that the path and filename are correct and try again"...

KD

[dejgaard]

HEY!...


I just went to the board and clicked on your latest post (The one called Movie Midid Trivia)... And suddenly, there was sound... A quiet little instrumental piano ballad...

KD

[dejgaard]

Well, I went into Tools and in "My Settings" set the "Sound for new message notification" to Monty Python. Now, whenever I click on "My Settings", the Eric Idle voiced "Message for you, Sir" sounds.
Otherwise, I never hear a thing from IHub...

KD

[The Original dpb5!]

That is very odd. Do you hear any other sound files on IHUB?

[dejgaard]

Internet Explorer

[The Original dpb5!]

It's not a MAC thing.

Do you use Windows and Internet Explorer?

[dejgaard]

Back at you, Dave


I visited your music board. I can't hear a thing... Is that a Mac thing? Anything I can do about it? (I'm sitting here with an old beat up iBook running OS 9.1)

KD

[The Original dpb5!]

Hey Dej!

Thanks for responding! Nothing wrong with you wanting a little sun and fun! In fact, your post made me smile and brightened my day.

Watch your thoughts about those 50 thoughts! I turned 50 this year! LOL

Thanks for the Thanksgiving thoughts, too! Cmon down to Pennsylvania and enjoy Thanksgiving here! It's sure to be about ten degrees or so warmer!?!?

Dave

[dejgaard]

Yoh, Dave

Pretty busy, but that's life...

-Was sortof on my way to Sweden for a tenured position at Gothenburg University. But with a divorce and an ex who didn't fancy to move to Sweden and me not fancying leaving my son behind, I'm building up to a staff position here at McGill University - running a smallish proteomics center that is about to start up. They want to bestove on me the title of 'manager', which I loathe... Not a title that belongs in a university setting if you ask me...

Otherwise, I can't complain... Except about growing older... Monday is my 40th... ugh...
I remember not being bothered by 30 at all, but 40... That means looking ahead to 50... hmmmm...

No ice hockey, this winter... That sucks, big time!
We've just lost our Baseball team to DC and there's no ice hockey... I'm running out of excuses to not work, which leaves me in the lab until long into the night and I'd sort of visioned that as being a thing of the past! -But there you go...

It's getting cold in Montreal. Winter's approaching.
I'm charming the idea of taking a holiday in early February, when it's minus 30. Two weeks to Cuba (something one can do, when living in Canada) to send e-mails home to the lab, every day, saying something to the order of "It's 78F, here... 75, with the wind chill... Have to go... Boat's about to leave... Man, snorkling is so hard! What one must do to earn the self-imposed right to a glass full of Rum and a Salsa with da ladies... Too bad they're not blond... DoubleBuy would hate this place..."

Well, enjoy your Thanksgiving! We've had ours, already, here in Canada.

Best,
KD

[dejgaard]

Hey, Meme:


Well, somebody just suggested a solution, joining the 'Blue' part of the Divided States of America with Canada and get that divorce over and done with... I mean... You obviously don't love each other anymore, right?...

Anyway, here goes:
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The Divided States: a modest proposal
By Gwynne Dyer


LOOKING at that extraordinary electoral map of the United States with all the liberal, quiche-eating, Kerry-supporting states of the north-east and the west coast coloured Democratic blue while the “heartland” and the south were solid Republican red, the solution to the problem suddenly occurred to me. “Blueland” should join Canada.
It is getting harder and harder for the two tribes of Americans to understand or even tolerate each other. Once again, as in 2000, the country is divided with almost mathematical precision into two halves, one of which adores President George W. Bush while the other literally loathes him. And it goes far deeper than mere personalities or even the old left-right split; the clash now is about social norms and fundamental values on which few are willing to compromise.

Opinions on the foreign issues that seemed to dominate the election - the war in Iraq and the “war on terror” - just mapped onto that existing cultural division. People who go to church regularly and oppose abortion and gay marriage were also far more likely to believe that US troops had found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that Saddam Hussein had somehow sponsored the terrorists of 9/11, so they voted for Mr Bush. People who don’t, didn’t.

“Irreconcilable” is the word that springs to mind. Two separate populations have evolved in the United States, and they are increasingly unhappy even about living together. One sub-species, homo canadiensis, thinks medicare is a good idea, would rather send peace-keepers than bombers, and longs for the wimpy, wispy liberalism enjoyed by their Canadian neighbours to the north. The other breed, homo iraniensis, prefers the full-blooded religious certainties and the militant political slogans - “Death to...(fill in the blank)” - that play such a large and fulfilling part in Iranian public life.
It is sheer cruelty to force these two populations to go on living together, especially since US political life has lost its centre and now pits these two irreconcilable opposites directly against each other in a winner-takes-all election every four years. Since the pseudo-Iranians slightly outnumber the proto-Canadians, the obvious solution is for the latter group actually to go to Canada - and indeed, I have lost count of the number of American friends who have told me that if George W. Bush wins again, they are going to move to Canada.

There are problems with this solution, however. A mass migration northwards would leave large chunks of the United States virtually empty, and the parts of Canada where people can live in any comfort are pretty full already. Besides, the winters up there really are fairly severe, and I’m not sure that Californians would be up to it. And then, looking at the two-colour map of the electoral outcome, the solution hit me. You don’t have to move the people; just move the border.

It would all join up just fine: the parts of the US inhabited by homo canadiensis all lie along the Canadian border or next to other states that do (although the blue bit dangles down a long, long way in the case of the Washington-Oregon-California strip fondly known as the Left Coast). True, the United States would lose its whole Pacific coast, but we could probably arrange for an American free port in, say, Tijuana. And lots of Canadians could move to a warmer clime without actually having to leave their country.

At the global level, everybody else would be quite happy with a bigger Canada and a smaller United States. That smaller US would have to pull in its horns a bit, as it would no longer have the resources to maintain military bases in every single country on the planet, but it would retain enough resources to invade a country every year or so, so it wouldn’t suffer too badly from withdrawal symptoms. And the new Canadians would be free to have abortions, enter into gay marriages, do stem-cell research and engage in all other wickednesses that flourish in that bastion of corrupt and Godless liberalism. They could even speak French, if they wanted to.

No solution is perfect: there would be limp-wristed liberals trapped in the United States and God-fearing rednecks who suddenly found themselves in Canada, so some degree of population exchange would be necessary. It’s even possible that a few right-wing bits of Canada – parts of Alberta, for example - might prefer to join the United States. But you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs, and think how happy everybody will be when they are living exclusively among like-minded people.

[Meme]

Re: Are the lights still on?...

Well, it's pretty dim in here, but I occasionally bring by a match. ;)

How ya been, dude? I'll bet you're scratching your head over our recent election, eh?

Well, let me just say that there are 54 million Americans who are doing more than just that, we're in mourning.

Some day, I may have to seriously consider a move up north to your locale. The lunatic evangelicals are running the asylum down here and the fearful have climbed in bed with them.

On the brighter side, the money-grubbers have decided they're just jim-dandy with it all as they can still make money on death machines, high prescription costs, and the oily veins of the Middle East.

Sorry if I sound positively dismal, totally off topic (what the heck is the topic of this board anyway?), and otherwise preoccupied. <G>

[The Original dpb5!]

LOL! Yep! I change the light bulbs here on occasion.

How you doin' Dej?

[dejgaard]

Are the lights still on?...

[NoMoreOptions]

I have just found the Glory in Internet Forums. They Can really help out on questions that need to be answered.

I found this site http://www.afexpo.com on the web, yet I do not know what to think of it. I would love to have some feedback.

Take Care,
NoMoreOptions

[The Original dpb5!]

Google Files for IPO

Google files with SEC for public offering
Online search firm seeks to raise $2.7 billion in IPO
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search engine leader Google Inc. filed its long-awaited IPO plans Thursday, thumbing its nose at Wall Street's traditions even as the company prepares to cash in on its meteoric success.
Without specifying a price per share, Google said it hopes to raise $2.7 billion with an initial public offering that has created the biggest high-tech buzz since the dot-com bubble burst four years ago.
The IPO is expected to give Google a market value of at least $20 billion, creating scores of new Silicon Valley millionaires - including many of the company's 1,900 employees.
"Feels great!" Google employee Edwina Beaus said as she walked between buildings at the company's Mountain View headquarters - a hub known as the "Googleplex."
But even as it prepared to dance with the Wall Street bankers who will take it public, Google warned investors that it won't take its marching orders from the markets.
"Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one," co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote in an open letter included in the IPO filing.
As expected, Google said the price of its IPO will be determined through an auction designed to give the general public a better chance to buy its stock before the shares begin trading, most likely in late summer or early autumn. IPO shares traditionally have been restricted to an elite group picked by the investment bankers handling the deal.
Google picked two long-established investment bankers - Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston - to manage its populist IPO approach.
Although Google's stock won't be sold for several more months, the filing represents a significant milestone in the 5½-year-old company's evolution from a fun-loving startup to a corporate adolescent that will be held more accountable for how it manages its money.
Google has done well so far, according to a filing that shined a light on the privately held company's finances for the first time.
Depending almost entirely on advertising linked to online searches, Google earned $105.6 million, or 41 cents per share, on revenue of $962 million last year. Google got off to an even better start this year, with a first-quarter profit of $64 million, or 24 cents per share - more than doubling its earnings of $25.8 million, or 10 cents per share, at the same time last year.
By going public, Google will be under greater pressure to produce steady earnings growth - an expectation that some executives say leads to shortsighted management decisions.
As a public company, "you become sharper in some respects, but it also can cause you to make some decisions just so you can show growth from quarter to quarter," said Steve Berkowtiz, chief executive of Ask Jeeves Inc., a Google rival and business partner.
But Google says it won't fall into that trap, striving to remain true to the vision of the iconoclastic Page and Brin, former Stanford University graduate students who founded the company in 1998. In one of its first rebellious steps, Google will refuse to project its earnings from quarter to quarter, according to the letter signed by Page and Brin.
"A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half hour," they wrote.
Industry veterans, though, doubt Google will be able to buck Wall Street once it goes public.
"After the IPO, they're going to have to think in terms of predictable quarterly results and momentum," said Gordon Eubanks, who took software maker Symantec Corp. public in 1989 and now is CEO of Oblix Inc., a security startup. "You have to have a level of predictability and experience to warrant being a public company."
To insulate themselves from outside pressure, Page and Brin are creating a two-class stock hierarchy designed to give them effective veto power. The company is selling Class A common stock to the public, but Page and Brin will control Class B stock, which will have 10 times the voting power.
The setup is similar to systems used by several major media companies and Berkshire Hathaway Inc., run by stock market sage Warren Buffett.
Thursday's filing didn't spell out how large the founders' stakes will be after the offering, although they are listed as the company's largest individual shareholders. Both are expected to become billionaires after the IPO. Google paid each man $356,556 in salary and bonuses last year.
The filing also emphasized that both Page, 31, and Brin, 30, intend to remain Google's hands-on leaders, making all key decisions with CEO Eric Schmidt, a former top executive at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Novell Inc. who joined the company in 2001.
Google is already one of the world's best-known brands, with an online search engine that processes more than 200 million queries daily.
Despite its rapid success, Google faces an uncertain future as it tries to fend off stiffening competition from two much larger rivals, software giant Microsoft Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., which runs the world's most popular Web site.
Through February, Google held a 35 percent share of the search engine market, with Yahoo at 30 percent and Microsoft's MSN at 15 percent, according to comScore Networks, a research firm.
© 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4864177/

[DoubleBuy]

Internets Heating Up?!?

Sounds more like it's going to be a shootout at the OK corral, and rummor has it, that the old founder of GNET, Russ Harowitz new co. MCHX will be comming out with a SuperCluster Search Engine sometime by fall..

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/040423/b3881001mz001_1.html

[The Original dpb5!]

Are Internet Stocks Heating Up Again?

Hi everyone!

Here is a board I created here on IHUB about a year ago.

With the recent news of the potential sale of lycos.com, I thought I'd share the link to the board and ask if any of you would post any other relevant new trends in the "Internet World" as they happen...

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1587

[The Original dpb5!]

Web portal for sale, slightly used
Last modified: April 27, 2004, 2:15 PM PDT
Spanish Internet company Terra Lycos has retained investment bank Lehman Brothers to explore a possible sale of its U.S. Internet business, including its flagship Lycos.com Web site, according to a document obtained by CNET News.com.
A sale of the unit, which is based in Waltham, Mass., would unwind the $12.5 billion merger of Lycos and Terra Networks, struck in 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble. Now, with a resurgence of online advertising spending, Terra is seeking a buyer for the Lycos division as it focuses on its Spanish- and Portuguese-language businesses, according to the document, prepared by Lehman Brothers and circulated to prospective buyers over the past several weeks.
"An acquisition of Lycos, one of the last available premier Internet search and content properties, represents an outstanding and unique value creation opportunity at a time when advertising budgets are increasing, paid online content is gaining broader acceptance and public markets are favorably rewarding consolidation in the rapidly growing search market," the document reads.
Terra Lycos is hoping to sell Lycos for cash or liquid shares. Although no purchase price was listed, one source familiar with the deal said Terra Lycos is looking to sell Lycos for $200 million, based on $98 million in pro-forma revenue that the site generated in 2003.
A Terra Lycos representative declined to comment. A spokeswoman for Lehman Brothers did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
On the rebound
The effort to sell Lycos offers the latest evidence of the reviving fortunes of Internet companies, thanks to improved financial earnings and growing confidence in online advertising. Hype for the sector is set to soar this week, when Web search engine giant Google is expected to announce plans for an initial public offering, an event that could inspire a new round of dot-com deal-making.
Few expect a return to the heady days of the late 1990s, when Internet companies with no profits were sold for stock worth billions of dollars on paper. But excitement is building once again for Internet companies--particularly those with an angle on Web search.
Yahoo has led the way in deal-making to date, acquiring companies in the United States and abroad with stock and cash from a $2.79 billion war chest. In the past year, Yahoo has acquired paid-search company Overture Services for about $1.6 billion, French comparison shopping site Kelkoo for $579 million in cash and Chinese search company 3721 Network Software for $120 million.
The success of the paid-search business has sent the stocks of Internet search companies surging, including those of little-known players such as Mamma.com, whose shares jumped from about $2 in early March to more than $10. The company is backed by dot-com bubble investor extraordinaire Mark Cuban, who sold his Broadcast.com start-up to Yahoo in 1999 for stock worth more than $5 billion, and cashed out near the top.
War stories
The portal wars that marked the mid-1990s ended with Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft's MSN as the victors. Second-tier portals, such as Lycos, have remained popular according to online measurement firms, but their audiences are a fraction of the leaders'.
Walt Disney shut down Infoseek after spending billions of dollars trying to build out its own Go.com Web portal.
Excite.com, which was acquired by cable Internet service provider @Home for $6.7 billion in over-valued stock in 1999, was sold in 2001 in bankruptcy court for $10 million to online sweepstakes site iWon and Web directory InfoSpace.
Ask Jeeves in March said it is buying Interactive Search Holdings, owner of several destination sites including iWon, Excite and My Way, for about $343 million in cash and stock.
Terra Lycos is exploring a sale of its U.S. division following several rounds of layoffs and a recently announced restructuring that aims to refocus the company on search and its subscription businesses. According to the Lehman Bros. document, Lycos currently has about 170,000 paying subscribers for products including its Matchmaker online dating service.
Lycos lost $24 million in 2003, but broke even in the fourth quarter of that year, according to the Lehman document. The company expects to make a profit in 2004.
In February, Lycos laid off 20 percent of its U.S. staff and announced it would focus its business on the social-networking trend established by Friendster and Google's Orkut.com.
A year prior to that, Lycos had laid off 147 employees, 22 percent of the company, to refocus the company on a "global," rather than regional, scale. The company also said it would boost its collection of vertical sites.
Much of the trouble began in the fall of 2002 when German media giant Bertelsmann said it would renegotiate $675 million remaining from a $1 billion deal to buy in advertising as part of the Terra-Lycos merger. The renegotiation eventually lead to the departure of former U.S. head Stephen Killeen.
A baby boom?
Things are beginning to look up for Web businesses, however, thanks to renewed confidence in online advertising, bolstered by Web search. Lycos uses Google to post commercial links throughout its Web search results and gets a cut of revenue every time one of its users clicks on the link, something the Lehman Bros. bankers are counting on to lure in potential buyers.
Google and Yahoo subsidiary Overture have helped contribute significant amounts of cash to companies that use their search links. AOL, for instance, received $200 million in 2003 from revenue generated through its Google relationship, up from $35 million in 2002.
Lycos may also have some other assets that would interest potential buyers, such as its collection of various Web sites for certain categories. The company operates businesses such as Matchmaker.com for online personals, Quote.com for finance, Angelfire and Tripod for Web publishing, and Wired News. These businesses could be attractive for some potential suitors.
"Is it worth buying a second-tier portal? To the right buyer it may make a lot of sense," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research. "You can make a good living (even) if you're not the top player."
http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-5201301.html?tag=nefd.lede

[Meme]

The Meme Tree

http://drunkmenworkhere.org/memetree.php

[Meme]

Aloha - I blew it big time. Sorry. I mixed you up with anim8tor. I'm glad to hear that you are okay, but I really feel for him.

How is that old Disney board? What's the mood there lately with all the crap that's going down? Is everyone still rah-rah Eisner?

You sure know I was never one of those. <G>

Meme

[Meme]

KD - Well I'm certainly glad to hear that you're still in business. However, knowing the business climate for biotech startups as you've mentioned, does the lab know what the front office knows? How tight are you guys? What kind of cash are you sitting on? Is it enough to weather through? Are you supplementing with grants?

I only ask because I worry for you. Last year I had the most incredibly unsavory experience of being on the knowing end of coming layoffs and these were people I'd come to be good friends with. The layoffs were a bunch of the scientists and our IT guy!

And, yes, science IS very international. I love it. More Americans could do with a good dose of cultural exchanges. It might deflate some of the arrogance inbred in our modern culture.

Meme

[The Original dpb5!]

Ridi,

I agree. It is so weird that he just disappeared like that. I, too, hope that all is well with him!

[coolridi]

Nope, I have not heard from him since I moved to MN. Will let you know if I have gotten him. I do still miss him. Hope everything with him is well.