Brent wrote:

After I finished he commented to me, "I don't know how anyone can do things like that".

Good story...I met Nimoy at the Union Building when he gave a speech there years ago, had him sign a hand-drawn picture of the Enterprise I had done while listening. On another occassion, I watched a non-ST film of his sitting next to George Takei (Mr. Sulu!), who gave me a running commentary during the film on the nuances of "Leonard's genius". (!) Funny thing, but every cast member of ST TOS I met were absolute ladies and gentlemen, not a trace of snobbery at all and only too willing to listen to what I had to say. Every one were warm, genuine people, to me at least. Perhaps that has something to do with my fond memories of the show. Not to diminish your Mastery of the Cube, but remember that folks like Nimoy are artists and use a different half of their brain than the technical types...for the same reason, we couldn't perform Macbeath worth a damn, despite what our moms might think... ;) It is said that some of Goethe's writings, in the original German, moved many readers to suicide because life became meaningless in light of the beauty of his prose. Not by religious commandment or edict, just by sheer beauty of thought did their real lives suddenly pale into insignificance. Let's see a modern scientist or engineer do that. Now here's the kicker: Goethe was also an accomplished civil engineer and designer...he had the benfit of being able to use both brain hemispheres to their fullest! Russell Porter, a name more of us might recognize, is another of those types. People like that make me feel like I'm just taking up space. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com