The nesting habits of the Common Cuckoo.

[Edit: Fixed the square and square root table]

Expanded from a comment I made earlier about how to do square roots in your head.

This system is accurate to about 0.5% I often do better than that, but it depends.

( How to do square roots in your head. )

Thank you to those of you who replied to my earlier snark. After some reflection and calming down, it seems to me that the primary subject of my snark *really* needs a vacation. I think that the best response to this person at the moment is no response. The second best would be to suggest in an off-forum manner that they might need to take a break ( Read more... )

These two items are not related ( Read more... )

( Anime Ian )

( Cut for the protection of the innocent. )

The difference between FRUGAL and CHEAP.

Frugal: adj. 1) Costing little; practicing economy, 2) Avoiding waste

Cheap: adj. 1) Of low price, 2) Of poor quality; inferior

We now return you to your regularly scheduled LiveJournal.

Well, I've now survived 3^1 * 11^1 trips around Sol. (More simply, I'm 33 years old ( Read more... )

Today is my lady love's birthday! Yay!

...at almost exactly this time, I was undergoing surgery for appendicitis.

Today, I will be spending the day with friends and my love, singingnettle.

All in all, a *much* better day. (Heck, if I spent the day bored in a padded bunker, it would be a much better day.)