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Dave's having a baby. Go congratulate him. Post-haste.

http://tayman.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/ ... nce-to-me/

Can't Randall pick on chemists, or biologists, or someone else every once in a while?

The Three-Body problem isn't really something that biologists spend a lot of time thinking about, I suspect. Unless you're referring to.. well, never mind.

Exciting, Kelly.

Where in Minnesota? Is this a long term plan? Inquiring minds, dear!

Jealous!

But Janus, that isn't *funny*.

I have ALWAYS wanted a huge dry-erase board in my house/room. That would be awesome!

Good on you, Kelly. I know how it feels to bust a dry spell wide open and stomp gleefully on its remains. Keep it up and let us know how it goes. Maybe we were drinking the same koolaid, but I just got a big surge myself. Last month I wrote a 17,000 word novelette that I hope to polish up for Writer...

You could save yourself the stamp (and the stress) if you just auto-paid it. Just sayin

That phone freaks me out.

You guys are weird.
Oh, excuuuuse us, Mr. Richy Rich. What did you play with? A solid gold rattle?

Heavens, no. We had people to rattle our toys for us.

That phone freaks me out.

You guys are weird.

Thanks for the article, Nom. It is a bit long-winded, but I agree with her thesis which is, principally, that one can not precisely calculate the amount of calories one needs to eat and the amount/type of exercise one needs to perform in order to lose a given amount of weight. There are too many var...

Cool, Adam. But, umm, where was the writing?? (Forum posts don't count!)

Calories In/Calories Out is the ONLY science. First law of Thermodynamics. Live it. Love it.

The novelette is 15,000 words long. I keep blinking at that. By far, this is the longest thing I've ever written. And, unlike past stories, I think this might be something good. Not great, sure, but entertaining. Now I have to slog through the revision, but the thought of discovering it is crap is p...

I would write a piece of creative non-fiction. 250 words is not a lot to work with, so you need to make it stand out. I WOULD pick an exciting experience that you (and only you) have had, though, and reflect a little on what that means.

Awesome photos, Nom! I think you should continue to post pictures, if your daily life changes, or if you're out and about and something happens where you think, "Crap, this is totally how my life is." And you have a camera handy, that is.

This is SUCH a great idea. I'm enjoying the threads. If I can figure out a way to bring the camera to the hospital, without getting any patient info on the pictures, I'm gonna.

There are a couple others, too. But the one that bugged me the most was: (I don't know how to do the invisible text thingie, so allow me to simply .....) ** Spoilers Below!!! ** Okay, Kirk is stranded/exiled on an icy planet and, through the course of stumbling around, manages to find the exact cave...

That really does suck, Kelly. But don't fret it too much. Bigger and better is out there for you.

(Congrats, Kimmie!)

First of all, I'm very sorry to hear about your being laid off, brain. That is just sucky, left and right. I work in the healthcare industry and am located in Tulsa, two areas that have been partially shielded from all the crap going on in the world. Still, we've felt a few pinches. Our 3% annual pa...

AHHH! Kelly, that is friggen amazing! Good on you, girl! Damn! Next time I'm in NYC (hopefully soon??) drinks are on me! And.. umm.. not like the last time when I ended up puking on a curb and my best friend's purse got stolen. But tell us some more.. what areas are you going to be concentrating on?...

We needn't assume it was one of Pweb's female denizens. Possibilities abound.... Regardless, though experimentation can be healthy, I hope relative safety was upheld.

Good luck!

Had dinner next to Robin Hobb tonight, and did not fanboy geek out. She is gracious, and poised, and a damned interesting speaker. Also, she had some great (although, not really new) advice on writing and the writer's life.

Damn, I hate this game. I'm really bad at it..... the temptation to cheat is overwhelming.

*basks in warm, fuzzy feelings*

Yes, Zero, I was sensing that too.

Someone recently informed me that my lack of avatar was becoming annoying. I can't find a copy of that mysterious, hooded wanderer anymore though. Will a picture of my mug suffice? Please pardon the distinct lack of myspace angles....

Creepy, but I was reminded of the same thing, Adam. I love that verse. I'm convinced that should my life ever warrant an autobiography, it would be titled "Come Away O Human Child."

If you are able, this is the year to buy a house. I would amend that statement to read: "...this is the year to buy a house for the first time." For the rest of us shlubs, who already have houses, this doesn't help us at all while, at the same time, it increases our national debt responsi...

Be careful of simply joining two sentences by replacing a period with a comma. That may lead to a spliced sentence which is worse than two simplistic, but correct, sentences.

Omigawd....

I think my reply would have been more along the lines of: "Holy Hell, woman! Yes yes yes yes! Do it!"

Just barely

Gets weirder:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02 ... index.html

Interesting usage note, taken from the pages of dictionary.com: Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean "causing nausea" and that it is incorrect to use it to mean "affected with nausea," as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In...

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Go say congrats to Dave and Emily!

Re: A day in the life of locke

Re: Economy cashing in.