i think we had best give up on the IRC plan.
this machine is sitting behind several firewalls, and i have heard that IRC and such arent allowed through.
anyway, plan B is interesting.
this involves getting you into the marathon thread, where you can explore your pussycat side more freely.
also it ups the odds of me getting the 2000th post
also, as a bonus, JavaBrain is already there, so hopefully we can get her to throw things at one of the stardock programmers if need be