re "are you one of those people who need peep-holes? If you don't know what to fill those holes up with, let's try sand"

Is that a sucker punch, TEd Rem, or are you just tryin' to sandbag me? :)

re I want to be a loam," said Grita Garbo.

Greta Garbo was never a loam when she was lying in bed, TEd Rem. It was a bed of roses for her lovers, I'll bet. I don't need a peep hole to bet on that. :)

re "just leave it in the till," said Buckminster Fuller's earthy partner.

His partner was tilling the clients, TEd Rem, but Bucky was tilling the future. Have you heard of "Bucky balls"?

Named after R. Buckminster Fuller, the Fullerene molecule, or "Buckyball" contains 60 carbon atoms aranged in a sphere much like the vertices of a football (that's a soccer ball to all you Americans out there). Only recently, unfortunately after Bucky's death, were Fullerenes discovered, in the lab and also in the real world, in micrometeorite craters on satellites.

http://www.psyclops.com/bucky.shtml

BTW Bucky's dad, Buckminister Fuller, was a clergyman. He gave up tilling the soil for tilling the soul. Buckminster Fuller put his soul into his designs.

"Nature long ago solved the problem of making electronic devices on a molecular-scale and we're now beginning to learn how to do things the way Nature does," says Paul McEuen, a physicist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, and with UC Berkeley's Physics Department.

Within the past few years, a number of research groups, including McEuen's, have made transistors from carbon nanotubes - tiny sheets of graphite that have been curled and connected along the seam. Although considered a single molecule of carbon, these elongated tubes were several times larger than the soccer-ball shaped carbon-60 molecules used by McEuen and his colleagues to make their newest transistors. Buckyballs are so tiny that, as transistors, they only permit one electron at a time to move through them. This opens the door to the study of single-electron transport effects."

http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/ARTICLES/bucky.asp