Whew! The water front at this point is something of concern. The Province really ought to do something but it's like everything else, coffee is more important...

Ah, a true Greek man! We'll have to grab some Ouzo one of these days... You can teach me Greek. The decending sequence goes: deci, centi, milli, micro, nano, pico, femto, atto, zepto, yocto. The ascending sequence we all know better as we use the terms with computers quite often: deca, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yota.

Always loved optics - perhaps my favorite branch of physics when I dabbled with that stuff.

The infamous mole. At first I thought a mole was something that liked burrowing under the ground. That stuff I could never wrap my head around - chemistry - except for the lab. Man, those guys spent their lives following electrons. Physics was all about seeing how one could turn the world inside out. I thought that was cool. I liked the idea that everything could be transformed into what the dudes liked calling a manifold. It wasn't uncommon for those guys to turn a cow into a manifold and then integrate it. If that worked they would then call it a day and head down to the pub. With one of them we were forbidden to call him "sir", it had to be Ian or "Mr. Smeth" (mispelling intended). He was a feisty Scotsman...

Once I discovered how to find out the volume of a donut, I decided it was worth paying attention. It turns out it helps with designing planes.

David