From: David Beierl
>Using AA NiCd batteries and assuming lifetime of 200 charge cycles
>brings it down under $50.

I have lots of NiCad AA's (some 15 years old and still working) and the new
"Pure Energy" alkaline rechargeable's (Larry).......

From Bully...>Would you consider Indiglo(r) to be fluorescent....

I have been using those for nite lites around my home every sense Timex
patent expired and Austin Innovation brought them out for consumer use...
uses .02 cents a year in power never turned off.... don't want to get
started on this one, but it's a neat optical illusion... only a very narrow
visual light spectrum... fools your eye into thinking it's seeing, what you
believe is light.

From Bulley....>a subject near and dear to my heart: QUALITY

Read the book "LILA" by Robert M. Pirsig....subtitled... an inquiry into
morals and also subtitled....the metaphysics of quality.. Author of  "Zen
and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance"....