My point is this...

"Seems to me we've all been taking a little break... thinking about our personal lives, or thinking about keeping our jobs... Breaks are good; it's not a bad idea to take a break every now and then, and I know how hard you all work.

"There was this time that Annie came to me with this press clipping... seems these theologians down in South America were all excited because this little girl in Chile had sliced open a tomato, and the inside flesh of the tomato had actually formed a perfect rosary. The theologians commented that they thought this was a very impressive girl. Annie commented that it sounded like a very impressive tomato. Don't know what made me think of that...

"Naval Intelligence reports that approximately twelve hundred Cubans left Havana this morning. Approximately seven hundred turned back due to severe weather, some three hundred and fifty are missing and presumed dead. One hundred and thirty-seven have been taken into custody in Miami and are seeking asylum.

"With the shirt on their backs they came through a storm. And the ones that didn't die want a better life, and they want it here.

"Talk about impressive.

"My point is this: break's over." -- Josiah Bartlett, September, 1999.

I start at Nvidia Monday.