"And what sort of things," I asked Poison Pie, "would the Notorious G contemplate while viewing bears?" He answered, "Such multi-faceted and variegated topics including but not limited to: ignorance and the extinction of ignorance, not knowing and the triumph of evolution, the merits of the ephemeral and the bane of equilibrium, the interplay of solar motion and arboreal penumbra in the hours before and after noon, the proper configuration of 56K baud modems, and, finally, three rivers rambling." Wow! Three rivers rambling. That description garnered a bit more enthusiasm from me than I had initially supposed.