again michael gives the same cryptic star-trek reference.

care to explain it, michael?

the internet informs me that, in this scene in the movie,
spock speaks in code (so "days" actually means "hours")
to mislead an enemy who is listening in on the dialog...

i'm not speaking in code, nor am i misleading anyone,
so i cannot say that i understand the meaning here...

oh, and by the way, just in case it wasn't absolutely clear,
my invitation to collaborate extends to michael as well,
of course, so all he has to do to spur me into action is to
say that he wants to collaborate, and then follow through.
i'd love to develop a web-app or offline tool to his specs...

indeed, i have wondered all along why michael has not
responded more positively to the suggestions i've made.
my recommendations could have cemented his vision,
by trumpeting plain-text format as "the master version".

indeed, if he had gotten on-board early, he could have
propagated the model to internet archive, google, apple,
amazon, and all of the other players in this little game...

as it is, project gutenberg (in the persona of marcello)
ended up going with a light-markup solution anyway,
but it's a clumsy one that entails creating a separate file.

even if marcello can make it work, michael will end up
with no credit for the development, only a decreased rate
of presence in his role as the p.g. founder and visionary.

-bowerbird