yeah, it worked., didn't it? oh, sure, i tell you then you tell somebody else, and the next thing you know we're in the middle of another ice age. well, i'm not an expert, but i think he puts one foot in front of the other and pushes. i don't know how smart he is. before he even came here he invented a solar battery, which laid the groundwork for the system that provides the energy for amarillo, at half the cost. he'd be a millionaire today if he been smart enough to make them pay for it. how he pulls the grades, i don't know. maybe another half an hour. that? that was. i'm not saying. don't have to. it's going to go from solid form directly to gas. i'm not saying. but i can tell you that it's fairly rare, and very unstable. it worked! now if we can just keep it from exploding. aloha. he seems to be handling it all right. you want another beer? ready? we'll have two minutes. it's about time someone put it to good use. all the faculty's home phone are part of the university system. i'm depressed. why did i listen to my parents? i should have become a ping-pong pro. that's awful! that bad, huh? that's nice. i think he's coming around. god, he's good at that. he almost gets away with it. that's the most manipulative guy i've ever seen. i mean heard. well? nice logic. what? thirty-four degrees, ten minutes, fifteen seconds north; one hundred eighteen degrees, nine minutes, three seconds west. it did to me. you think it's getting too weird around here.