...that Tom Lehrer, being a Real Mathematician, might well have an Erdos number.

A little googling proved that he does indeed, and it's 4. (http://www.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/)

This pleases me immeasurably for some reason.

This is what I get for going back to online Harry Potter RPs after many years away ( Read more... )

It’s not the land of lost content ( Read more... )

...but their submission form is bust at the moment:

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Walthamstow has been plastered with posters for the UK Independence Party and the Christian Alliance ( Read more... )

I've just been completing an application for a postal vote for the elections on 4th June, since I won't be in the country that day ( Read more... )

I don't talk much about it here, or anywhere -- possibly for fear of jinxing it -- but I've been working for quite some time on a novel, and have reached the point where I'm trying to snag agent representation for it. (Seven rejections so far, but many, many still remain to be tried ( Read more... )

The mischief-maker in my head keeps nudging me and saying "Wouldn't it be great if this agent could be made to represent this aspiring author?"

Today, I have a post on my friendslist reporting that scientists have discovered a cause for the collapse of bee colonies ( Read more... )

Following leduck and laura_seabrook

For B5 fans - when you see this, post a B5 quote in your own journal.

Marcus Cole: "I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general ( Read more... )