People with talent, innate aesthetics and insatiable curiosity. Ability to handle the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune a must. If you think my moon sign is "really important", then we're definitely not on. As for notables, I'd love to have met or meet... Derren Brown, Hassan i Sabbah, Phil Ivey, Van Gogh, Amelia Earhart, David Milch, HRH Princess Olga of Denmark & Greece, V.S. Ramachandran, Sacha Baron Cohen, M.R. James, Julian Barbour, David Deutsch, Richard Turner, the Adria brothers. Recognize five or more of these names? If so, get in touch... Or simply answer the following... When considering the current state of efforts to link quantum mechanics and general relativity, e.g., Ed Whitten's M-theory, how is it that Type IIA string theory at strong coupling actually turns out to be Type I string theory in a slightly different limit, i.e., SO(32) heterotic? Alternatively... mambo or samba... and why?