Back in the early days, in 1989-1991, I had the pleasure of working in BioQUEST with the brilliant, wonderful and irrepressible Patti Soderberg. BioQUEST was a small operation, Patti and I wore more hats than I can count, from coffee maker to workshop facilitator. On the fateful day that we needed to come up with an official titles to satisfy some long forgotten piece of official business, we decided that we each wanted our title to be BioQUEST Co-Empress. And so we decreed. Those were exciting days, BioQUEST was small, computers were huge, and simul…