>>>>Anyone else catch it? It was terrific. It's still visible now on the east coast.
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>>>Missed it due to a combination of our user group meeting (great presentation by Menachem Bazian) and a cloudy night.
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>>>Tamar
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>>What's he up to these days? I agree about him being one of the truly great presenters. ( I am still telling his joke about the programmer, engineer and systems analyst going down a mountain when the brakes fail on the car ... )
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>And ?

Ok - so a programmer, an engineer and a systems analyst are going down a mountain when the brakes fail on the car ...

The driver manages to brush against the mountainside, bleed off some speed and finally get the car to a stop about halfway down. Immediately the engineer jumps out, grabs his tools and wants to get to work repairing the brakes. The systems analyst protests that first they have to determine the requirements and spec the repair plan, there needs to be a Gannt chart ...

And the programmer says, "Why don't we just get in, start back down the mountain and see if it does it again ... "

Another that I actually like better and may have heard first from Menachem -

An engineer, a chemist and a philosopher are arguing about the Greatest Discovery.

The engineer opts for The Wheel, the chemist for Fire. But the philosopher says : The Thermos Bottle.

What? the others reply. But all it does is keep hot things hot and cold things cold.

Yes, says the philosopher - But how does it know ?