I’m just a pseudo-zombie… caused by reading one too many legal and patent documents…
What do you do for a living?
Anything that I want to! It has to be interesting, though. And I won’t work with the rectally enhanced. The undead are OK, as long as they have reasonably good hygiene.
An interesting, if cryptic response 
I imagine he doesn’t work and hasn’t built any arrays, but I think he might just be eating human brains by opening the top of the skull.
@TSP - just jokin wid ya.
I do collect cipher machines…
for encoding or decoding?
They do both… cipher machine aren’t much use if they can’t encode and decode.
I guess i was asking if you have already collected messages that need decoding
Last year, there was a decoding competition that use some old Enigma messages from WWII. Several were decoded. Almost all the mechanical rotor based machines have been broken (publicly), but still present quite a challenge (particularly if you don’t have a huge amount of traffic to work with).
The algorithm used in the Hagelin M209 series machines used for tactical messages in WWII and Korea was the basis for the Unix crypt and password commands.
Here’s a good place to start looking at machines: Crypto Machine Menu Page
We really took this thread off topic, but you didn’t tell us what you really do for a living
Based upon his (non)answer, I’m going to take a wild guess and say that he doesn’t want to tell you(us) and probably isn’t going to…
obviously, but it doesn’t mean i am forbidden to reintroduce it to the conversation 
I’m a degreed electrical engineer, but do work in many different technological areas. After a few years where well over 90% of everything that I spent went to pay some sort of taxes, I retired from normal work and now only work on interesting and challenging projects that strike my fancy… it’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
Whooooaooooooooooo. Anyone still watch dirty jobs?
are you expecting someone to bite and ask you about the 90% tax rate?
If you reread it a few times, it could be that 90% of everything was taxed for like 5 cents a dollar. So, that 10% could be food, being that it isn’t taxed.
that is true, i never saw it that way, but to follow the same reasoning i could have claimed i noticed this and my question is addressing it, and my 90% tax rate question is asking about the tax he spent on the 90% of earnings.
Notice, Spent, not made/earned.
I guess we are both still wondering. But, hopefully he responds soon, it’s killing me wondering which way it is!