Lord, yes. I live in Nashville and have a friend who is a successful songwriter. He told me that his take on a number one hit nets him around $100,000.

Could it be Amanda Waller?

The machine was built with technology that is now several years old. It might not need the space or the power it did originally.

Real life escape artists, like Houdini, are supposedly able to dislocate their shoulders at will, having practiced it so often that it was not very difficult or as painful as one dislocated by accident. Some sources say that's not true. I would think that being able to do so would also mean that it would happen…

Decades ago, when dial-up access was really the only way IT employees could log-in from home, it was common for IT departments to use a variation on this, when the employee would dial-in, but that would only trigger a call back to the employee's number as stored in the secure, home-office location.