On 2019 Jan 02 23:56:28, you wrote to me:

 ml>> "Respectfully submitted for your perusal - a Kanamit. Height: a
 ml>> little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred
 ml>> and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale,
 ml>> for in just a moment, we're going to ask you to shake hands,
 ml>> figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and
 ml>> another time. This is the Twilight Zone." - /To Serve Man/

 AH> [...] could supply. Sooner or later he'd have to admit he hadn't found
 AH> India or China... but he needed to persuade his financial backers he'd
 AH> found something equally profitable.

$$$ ruins so many good things...

 AH> I wonder what a Kanamit might want from me, and I think it unlikely I
 AH> could outrun him or her.... :-))

i don't think i could outrun one, either... Kanamits are 9 feet tall...
Richard Kiel (played 007 villain Jaws) played the iconic part of the
Kanamit...

 ml>> i used to speak Turkish (1st) and Japanese (2nd) but haven't since i
 ml>> was maybe 5 years old...

 AH> An interesting combination!  I studied French & Latin in high school
 AH> ... and I'm glad I did... but I'm also out of practice now.  :-)

my dad (R.I.P.) was in the USNavy so we got to go with him to a few of his
duty stations...

)\/(ark

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Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'
it wrong...
... Thank God I'm a country boy...
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