Wishes for prompt honest contractors and the return of utilities for your family Dana. What a mess. We still get quite a bit of New Orleans news here. Probably because of the shared hurricane interest. Cleanup is very slow going.

Count me with the feeling ucky people. Not sick enough to keep me from functioning, but foggy headed and a little dizzy. Blah.

Good luck on the review Aims. May they recognize your brilliance.

It's raining here. We had to give up and close the windows and put the A/C back on because of the dampness. Yuck.

huh. I just called our help line and indeed it is a legitimate exercise in machine reprogramming. Would still like some backup though.

So, if I've been interpreting assignment page limits to be single-spaced so far this semester, because of the amount of stuff I had to cover in previous assignments, can I switch to double-spaced because I don't have anything to say in this paper?

Nora, my guess is that because of the alliance they formed last year, your machine will need to be reprogrammed to accept Diners Club numbers. Basically, with the alliance, DC cards now have MC logos on them so that more merchants will take them.

This is just a guess, tho. I could be talking out of my butt. Again.

I need a new reason for not being curled up in bed and wallowing in my plague state. Being at work isn't cutting it anymore.

So, if I've been interpreting assignment page limits to be single-spaced so far this semester, because of the amount of stuff I had to cover in previous assignments, can I switch to double-spaced because I don't have anything to say in this paper?

You were probably on shakier ground with the earlier ones, I'd say.

For the math geeks:

A new book profiles two forgotten math geniuses.

The latest entry is Mario Livio's "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved," a wide-ranging exploration of the phenomenon of symmetry, focused on, well, a seemingly unsolvable equation.

In a historic break with the past, Poland's newly elected government threw open its top secret Warsaw Pact military archives - including a 1979 map revealing the Soviet bloc's vision of a seven-day atomic holocaust between Nato and Warsaw Pact forces.

...a long line of nuclear mushroom clouds neatly stamped along the Vistula, where Soviet bloc commanders assumed that Nato tactical nuclear weapons would rain down to block reinforcements arriving from Russia.

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On the map, western Europe lay beneath a chilling overlay of large red mushroom clouds: Warsaw Pact nuclear strikes, using giant warheads to compensate for their relative lack of precision.

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IOWarN,

Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

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You were probably on shakier ground with the earlier ones, I'd say.

This is what I figured, but there was literally no way to answer all the questions in the assignments with the given page limits, if they were double-spaced. Maybe I can get enough down that I'll 1.5 space this one, so it doesn't look too drastically different from my past stuff.

My friend DVDTracker, sent me an IM on AR15.com and asked, "OP, I wonder how difficult it is to shoot a lock off? I've seen it done on TV and in movies, but wonder if it is as easy as they show it to be. How about if I send you some funds to buy some locks. Will you shoot them and report back?"

The only answer was, "Sure! Why not?"

So, with funds supplied by www.LifeLibertyEtc.com, I set up an experiment.

The question is: How hard is it to shoot a lock off?

Lots of cool pictures.

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eta: The answer seems to be, "Use the shotgun."