I know why she's smiling - she doesn't have to type it all herself with carbons. Do you know how many times you had to type something over again in order to produce 120 copies? Each carbon copy got worse than the one before it, and by the fifth or sixth they were unreadable.

Okay, I'm a dinosaur. I remember those machines (or the ones that came just after) with tremendous fondness.

Thanks a bunch. I've been playing since I saw the posting, about 24 hours now.

I finally figured out the multiplier thingy (I know, I'm not too swift sometimes) and gaming that definitely upped my score, although the most I ever got was 600.

This is some sort of prank. I'm fifty-six and I heard it quite loudly, with my speakers on low. It wasn't even particularly irritating, just a rather insistent hum. It wasn't high-pitched, either.

I suspect that the mechanism is as follows: with the first bite/sip of something that tastes like it has calories, the liver signals the pancreas to release a lot of insulin. This clears the glucose out of the blood stream and readies you for more nourishment. This mechanism is clearly understood. It's why appetizers make you hungrier instead of full.

However, when you drink a diet soda, the same thing happens, then you get hungry because the insulin has worked.

That's my guess, but I'd like to see some research on it.

This might make sense for a sidewalk, but any such thing put on the roadway will decrease gas mileage, for zero net gain.

It's obviously a muzzle for our dear penguin friend, Opus.

This sort of thing happens all the time here in Chicago, although perhaps not to quite the same extent. The city is above many tunnels, and whenever they have to repair a hole in the street (whether a pothole or a hole made by some sort of repair) they have to put in a manhole. Just filling the hole doesn't work.

These pics remind me of a plastic surgeon who was a guest on The View a few days ago. He'd had so much botox and filler that he looked incredibly scary - I'd cast him in a Halloween thriller in a heartbeat.

The unaltered pictures all looked either better than or the same as the altered ones, IMO.

Isn't ricrolling past its prime? It seems so lame now. (Actually, it always did.)

It seems very arrogant to me - and patronizing. Do these people seriously think that anyone believes they *need* an iPod? I know I don't need one. I also know I don't want one. Neither the original advert nor the addendum is worthwhile.

We have tunnels under Chicago, too, and ours still have their rails. They were used to transport cargo from the docks to the main Loop stores - especially Marshall Fields and Carson Pirie Scott.

Sorry if that's not nefarious enough - I think real history beats made-up stories every time.

The word 'link' has no link in it - where is the video?

Terry said,

"As a side note, if you ask the Aymara of central America to point to the future, the point behind themselves. We would point straight ahead."

You would point ahead? I would point up.

Notice that they don't say that they have no concept of three-ness, just that they don't have a word for 'three'. Surely they have something equivalent to "I'll trade you {holds up three fingers} goats for your cow."

I've spent the last few minutes thinking of all the math that can be done without numbers. You can certainly have a set without numbers, you can partition it. You could have an equivalence relation without numbers. I think there's quite a bit.

Note that I'm not saying these people did or even could invent math without inventing words for numbers first, but isn't it an intriguing idea?

I'm not particularly in favor of this, for purely selfish reasons. I live in Chicago, where estimates of concealed carry range from one in six to one in three. So I don't have to carry a gun to be safe, I just have to have one hand in a pocket and keep an eye out.

If open carry becomes the norm, that's just going to paste a target on those of us who don't carry.