Brother is a Latin scholar. He frequently has been asked to translate mottoes into Latin. Most of them turn out as well as North Carolina's. I forgive them.

Great article, Eddie!! Schindler's List is my favorite Steven Spielberg movie. It's so surreal. You feel you're right there and you can most definitely feel the fear and panic through the actors. I think the one actor who played his part to perfection was Ralph Fiennes. His portrayal of Amon Goeth was absolutely terrifying.

I watched Schindler's List about two weeks ago. It affects me so much that I can only watch it once, maybe twice a year. I always cry at the end when Schindler starts crying and apologizing for not "buying" more lives to save. Neeson does such a wonderful job. How he transcends Scindler from someone proud to be a member of the Nazi party to someone who shockingly discovers the truth and reality of the holocaust is outstanding.

Yeah, 'Why didn't he signal his lane change?'. This is obviously not happening in Toronto, where one badly-planned left turn can jam up an entire street for the whole morning, while the Emergency Workers diddle around, taking statements and eventually clearing the bent car. And... it reflects on the TTC driver's record, future raises and promotions, etc.

Still to this day have not had the courage to watch this movie

What about the Iridium GPS satellites? They were not Y2K compliant and are now orbiting and are only good for bouncing Ham radio signals from.

"I swear officer, that tram driver deliberately swerved to hit me!"

I live in central Washington state and there was quite a bit of "end of the world catastrophe" type panic around here with people in bidding wars trying to buy generators. Most of our power comes from hydroelectric dams that were built in the 30's and 40's. The people in charge of the dams had to repeatedly point out that (1) water was not going to stop running downhill, and (2) all of the manual, mechanical, non-computerized controls and switches that the dams were built with still worked just fine.

The REAL problem will come when the year 9999 goes to 10,000. None of our computer programs have a 5-digit field for the year. And there will be a whole lot more programs out there in 9999 than there are now.

I worked for a company that did contract work for several state agencies. Thanks to Y2K funding, some very small agencies received enough money to replace small and crusty systems they could have otherwise never afforded to replace.

I realized it was completely out of control when I was asked to store some 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel in my garage in case it was needed for my company's generator. Not.

Some things happened, just between the computers and the humans who dealt with them. A meat-packing plant in my hometown put a few tons of canned ham out to be disposed of, because the meat-expiry date had gone to '00. The fellas who actually worked the fork-lifts spotted this and saved the garbage men the trouble of carrying it away. My Dad came home with a case he'd gotten from his local garage - 24 cans for five dollars. Small disaster = small windfall. Lots of other examples.

I was working at Cornell at the time in entomology research and had some equipment controls that I had worries about. So New Year's day I went in to the facility to make sure everything was OK. It was.

I need to buy that brushed steel-looking contact paper. I'll cover my car, and pretend it's a DeLorean!

. . . a DeLorean minivan.

it's not dobby, it's that guy from "girls".