I installed Chrome ( Read more... )

Silkie has a decade of LJ that she's become a little paranoid about and would like to pull it down and keep it ( Read more... )

I'm building a D&D 4E world, and I'd like to solicit commentary from anyone interested. I think I'm going to set it up as a livejournal community, http://inf-archipelago.livejournal.com/ (currently blank) - if you might be interested in worldbuilding, or want to know more, tell me so I can ( Read more... )

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Last weekend my father-in-law taught Kate how to solve square roots longhand. He writes out 4225 and shows her - "divide it into pairs of digits, so start with 42. What's the biggest integer no greater than the square root of 42?" "Six." "Right, so that's the first digit of the square root. You write it up here, square it, subtract from 42, get ( Read more... )

Basic economics of recessions.
originally posted as Facebook Note by Al Petterson on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 2:54pm

I encourage comment, on how to make it clearer, or how to address points left out.
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Robert: (grumble grumble grumble ( Read more... )

*blink* Reading a Diane Duane Star Trek novel, humming along, when suddenly there is a Commodore Katha'sat.

Now I desperately want to play Runequest again.

TPM gives latest R polls.

The poll has Huckabee at 19%, Romney at 18%, Gingrich 15%, Palin 12%, Trump 10%, Pa*l 8%. Pawlenty, Daniels, and Santorum each got 3%, Barbour got 1%.

I stand by my assertion that none of these - save maybe Pawlenty or Daniels - can possibly become the Republican nominee, unless they somehow become unopposed. If they ( Read more... )

You listen to Weird Al singing "My pancreas attracts / Every other pancreas in the universe / With a force proportional to the product of their masses / And inversely proportional to the distance between them", and your children all shout out "Squared!"