Help with parallax serial LCD and arduino uno

STOP PRESS.
We've just had our FIRST "report to moderator" email about this thread from a forum member.
It is in support of Nick.

Please understand, prior to this, we received no emails generated about this thread - no complaints about poor moderation, no comments about the quality of the early responses to the OP.

We're moderators, if someone complains, we do our best to respond and correct.
We cannot possibly read all of the hundreds of posts every day here, so we rely on members to report matters of concern in their areas of interest.
This isn't a minor channel with a few tens of views over many months.
We don't expect to get it right all of the time, but neither do we expect to be slandered/libelled over matters that have not attracted any reports.

We do our very best not to censor, and only edit posts to make them clearer or more accessible, or in very rare cases, to remove offensive material.

We also don''t have access to all the hardware one could possibly attach to an Arduino.