So, I guess I should comment on the book thing. Thanks to Mr. Micro aka Shawn @ db79 aka our gracious host (he’s paying for your bandwidth folks), I can now display what I have recently read, or am reading, etc.

I recommend the Robert Sawyer books.
Ingredients: 1 world dominated by a utopian/dystopian neanderthal society without humans, 1 world dominated by humans without neanderthals

Mix.

Good stuff. Amazing how much science you can learn from science fiction. That’s a discussion for someone elses blog though. Only because it wouldn’t actually be a discussion here..more of a silent treatise on something since no one reads this thing.