1. How many words appear in the following list?

• Duck
  
• Duck
  
• Goose
  

2. Punctuate the following sentence to make it true:
Love is just a word.

3. True or false:
The President-elect could have been John McCain.

I have at least two musicals meeting each of the following criteria (individually, not jointly... if there's anything that meets them jointly, color me wigged out.)

1) Is about pirates.
((Solved by darkladyothsith: Pirates of Penzance and The Pirate Queen))
2) Is about a French revolution.
((Solved by dokool: Les Miserables and The Scarlet Pimpernel))
3) Takes ( Read more... )

Trust is a weird thing. "I trust you" seems to mean everything from "I am manipulating you into allowing your better nature to steer you to a good decision" through "I have confidence in you" to "I think you will make good judgments and act on them appropriately". The last one is the general sense that interests me. It seems to mean a ( Read more... )

I just had a thought, and of course I always respond to having thoughts by posting them on my Livejournal.

I think my intuitions about free culture and so on are, at least in part, shaped by the fact that I almost never buy a book that I have not read, unless it's by an author who I have excellent reason to believe is consistently awesome, ( Read more... )

1. Patriotism.
   
2. Faith as a value.
   
3. Why people enjoy anticipation and surprises.
   
4. Sacredness.
   
5. Libertarianism (the philosophical position regarding free will, not the political faction).
   

Every time I read an article online about one of the previous mass extinctions, I wonder why people panic so about current extinctions in progress. Why is it important to save species? We're part of the environment now. If they can't cope with us - whether it's because we pollute or compete with them for resources or think they're fun to shoot, ( Read more... )

My watch is falling apart ( Read more... )

( Meme inside )

A Google search informs me that the surface area of a human being is somewhere between one and two meters square. That is at least a million millimeters square. Most of the time, you're not paying any attention to those million millimeters square, unless something you've independently deemed worthy of your attention is happening there. There are ( Read more... )

...because this is what my wish list for my birthday and Christmas looks like.

- A hand blender
- A desk
- Ground celery seed
- Books

And, the most telling:

- Socks