Stealth And Guile. Not just pretty words. They can be a motto to live by if you need one, but I've never been one for writing "Mission Statements". You'll have to excuse the rambling while you're here, but remember: *YOU* clicked to get here. Even if it was an accident while you were attemting a Yahoo search on "Butts" and an unfortunate typo occurred, I cannot and will not be held responsible. Besides, shouldn't you be working?

In case you care, here's some stuff about me. Wow. A link all about me. Let's do it again!

As you may have guessed from the above picture, I'm a Dilbert fan. I also like Star Trek^TM. I'm not obsessed mind you, though I must admit to owning several of the toys…. That's apparently all I can say about the subject because the Paramount ^TMpolice are always watching and looking for mention of their trademarked stuff like Romulans©, Klingons©, Ferengi©, etcetera. They'd *really* be steamed if you started flinging names around like Kirk©, Spock©, Bones©, Worf©, Troi©, Riker©, and Picard© around. In fact, they probably do searches for words like FAN FICTION and STAR TREK IMAGES. Rest assured that if any such material ever comes into my hands, I'll hoard it like intelligent conversation at a Christian Coalition Convention, because that's how valuable and rare it is. Besides, if you put something up, you usually have to get permission to do so from the creator and that's just way too much trouble. As for getting off my rear and making these sorts of things for myself, there are a few reasons for not doing so:

• I'm not that creative.
• If I was, I would be busy selling the stuff.
• I'd probably accidentally steal some of the great ideas I've seen on the 'net.
• Its too much fun spending the time looking for stuff others have done.
• Reading stuff you've written yourself is boring because you know exactly where the material you "borrowed" is.
• Contrary to popular belief, you *do* need some talent to make good looking computer generated images, or at least the patience to read the entire "Photoshop" manual.

Several friends of mine use the internet, but most do not have WWW pages. It *could* be that they have more taste. A list of those unfortunate souls who *do* have web pages are on my friends page, which, incidentally, is pretty neat.

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1997, Scott A. Betts betts@cs.utk.edu