The gem and thorn of my work portfolio is a firm involved in smaller/better x-rays and chips and genetics. Also involved in bringing advanced engineering design and analysis methods to high-end dentistry. Many of my med ventures try to find unregulated markets to limit downside risk. I'm also trying to model "new economy" firms via the beta and growth financial variables: I had developed some crude models out of laziness because I didn't have time to run to the big libraries, but now when I try to understand why they work (they did) I find more bugs; The recent economy has made me question a lot of assumptions. My mom died in 11/98 and my dad in 10/02; Being the only child of elder parents was only fun the first quarter century. I need to update myself on immunology, stochastic calculus, neural networks, highway driving and Japanese. Very little I have done this millenium has been successful. Dorsai internet flaked me off in Y2K (I felt the recession begin thusly on the 1st of April, 2000!) causing me to lose much e-mail (both directions). The real Vasos disappeared after my dad's 1985 heart attack, and made a brief reappearance 1989-1993 but hasn't been seen since. Am also concerned with influencing the traffic caused by the new mall near our house. Am also eager to see biotechnology industry in Queens and rest of Long Island. I'm annoyed at Windows for all the distractions it creates; IBM mainframes of the mid-1980s crashed less frequently. Fooey on GUI; Windows is for Bimbos! I run 75%DOS, 20% Win 3.11 WG and 5% Win98.