hehe China... I was afraid to look...

Jafo - I feel your pain buddy. My computer was a PII/450 until I built a new (and amazingly cheap) machine with an AMD 2200 and a great graphics card (FX5600Ultra), DVD burner, 1Gig PC2700, and blue lights (~! <-temporary excitement) so I gave the old one to my wife (a major upgrade from her P200MMX) and it died two weeks later... so now she has the same system I have and hers only cost $400 to build (no DVD burner and 512Mb PC2700) of course we couldn't afford either one but we couldn't work without them either!! freakin electronic vampires is what they are... they've stolen our souls and replaced the outdoors with sedentary labor.

pooters indeed...

      "The Idiot Bastard Son" is a pretty tune that comes off like a eulogy. It's about a kid born to parents who don't care about him; the father turns out to be one of the Nazi-like politicians in "Plastic People" and the mother's a hooker. The title works in two ways, as it describes the boy and also sarcastically labels him as seen through authorities' eyes. A kid who's told he's an idiot will act like one and soon truly be one.

     The bastard, abandoned by his folks and raised by Kenny and Ronnie (he's an incarnation of the combined characteristics of the two brothers), is "stashed away in a jar" by Kenny; it's probably one of the Mason jars, but the Uncle Meat kid's parents will be "Sleeping in a Jar" in that 1969 song. Such lyrics mainly to refer to sex without care for the consequences (kids) and careless parents who abandon their children, who in turn become stupid.

The midsection was singled out by Frank as one of his favorite parts of the album, at least in concept. 

-- quoted from Chris Federico's brilliant treatise on Frank Zappa's music and lyrics: http://www.mindmined.com/public_library/nonfiction/chris_federico_zappology.html#bio 

CDROMS in this age of obesity should all be able to digest 700Mb's - anything less is just uncivilized. Nice work finding a solution Jafo... most impresive. If you can keep this machine going long enough it could prove there was once a less complicated age when we all knew how type on a command line and re-booting was fun...