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I would take it, but only once a year or so. I would doubt my ability to act on the results, though.

Wow…I thought you were talking about reflexive grammar for some reason. Language thread!

I can't remember the direct conversion of kilometers to miles; however, I do remember that Earth's escape velocity is 11.2 km/s or 6.96 mi/s. Anytime I wish to convert SI units of length to English units of length (and vice versa), I do so in terms of escape velocities. It struck me that I probably have a unique mnemonic for said unit conversion and that other people might also remember things in odd ways. What odd mnemonics do y'all have?

I have not found a way to make Jeff's games work with Dvorak. I just have to remember where the keys would be on QWERTY and hope I don't type a bunch of gibberish.

I had no problem with six characters in Exile or Baldur's Gate, and I think I ultimately prefer six to four. As Edgwyn noted, it would be nice to have a larger party in Avadon. Someone could be an übertroll and create a game in which the party size can only be a prime number. When the eleventh character dies, a rabid patent clerk from an alternate dimension eliminates characters 10, 9, and 8…in a campy way, of course.

Presumably, someone will ultimately have to dig up the Big Book of Spiderweb Thread Schedules. It was last seen in Almaria, and I sure as heck ain't payin' for the toll. (Increasing diameter increases the Reynolds number: higher Reynolds numbers are turbulent, lower ones are laminar, and intermediate numbers are intermediate. The cutoff is different depending on which Reynolds number you're talking about and whom you're asking. i.e. the Reynolds number for a pipe is defined differently than the Reynolds number for other various flow regimes such as a packed bed reactor. I do know what I'm talking about )

If we want to stay laminar, we'll have to make our threads more viscous. In with the pitch and lye!

Edit: On second thought, I'm fairly certain Lilith portends a future in which people can only communicate with enigmatic images of pants. (aah! sorry! i edited instead of quoted!! the first line of your post is missing. sorry, E!)

I think there was a nine-headed cave cow in there somewhere. Maybe the seventh head lost its nose ring.

I think it would be a lot cheaper to troll an English forum.

I had completely forgotten about the Canned title, which was one letter away from Banned.

It's spring break: I don't normally have this much free time!

What is meant by "I literally just ate a sandwich"? Was it assumed that I would otherwise interpret the sentence as a figurative act of sandwich eating? Is there a figure of speech regarding sandwich eating of which I am unaware? Do figurative sandwiches have figurative condiments? Or is it the sandwich as a whole that is figurative? Suppose that an uninspired philosophy professor is teaching Plato's theory of forms by discussing the form of a sandwich. Perhaps a confused student, wishing to change the subject, asks in exasperation, "Did you know that I literally just ate a sandwich?" The confused student uses the word "literally" to differentiate from somehow eating the form of a sandwich. Only in such an instance might I lend credibility to literal sandwich eating, but said instance is dubious and improbable at best. On the other hand, there is the case of Imaginary Bob. Imaginary Bob frequently makes self-deprecating comments and also likes to embellish his stories. The other day, he drove his car on the freeway despite having a low oil level. As a result, Imaginary Bob destroyed his car. When recalling his stupidity, Imaginary Bob could either figuratively state that "I drove my car into the ground" or embellish the story by saying "I literally drove my car into the ground." In the former case, I would think that Imaginary Bob ruined his car. In the latter case, I would think that Imaginary Bob drove his car off of the freeway, nosedived into the ground, and was possibly injured; this event did not happen. Imaginary Bob unnecessarily created ambiguity by using a word that should normally be used to avoid ambiguity. Maybe there's a distinction I'm missing between formal and informal usage here, but I am inclined to think that the word "literally" should only be used to distinguish from what would otherwise be figurative. The use of the word "literally" as a form of emphasis or embellishment seems to have greatly diminished the word's meaning. I wonder if I am just narrow-minded and am stubbornly resisting an objectively useful change in language. Are there other words that could be used in place of "literally"?

I did not scroll down past Pearl Jam, and was trying to figure out what 9,361 could refer to. Congratulations!

It's an expression of postmodernist angst. Or something.

That run-of-the-mill sodium chloride stuff is for wimps: you've never had real scrambled eggs until you've had them with caesium astatide!

My introductory chemistry and physics courses overlapped somewhat in regards to heat transfer and heat engines. Physical Chemistry does directly apply physics to chemistry; i.e. using statistical mechanics and kinetics to determine various chemical properties, or using absorption spectra to determine rate laws. There are many more applications of physics to chemistry, of course. The extent to which you'll apply physics depends on your major, though. I'm in my last semester of chemical engineering, for which heat transfer (thermodynamics) and fluid mechanics are crucial subjects.

*bump* …well, it's 2014 now, but yeah. Last semester!: Principles of Bioengineering Linear Algebra Process Control Design Project (it's a capstone course) Unit Operations Lab II

Yeah, that's been happening to me as well. It doesn't bother me enough to switch skins, though.

I updated to Safari 6.1.1 and am still experiencing the same problem. Huh

There's a lot of hype concerning the U.S. being the world's largest debtor, but that's misleading. U.S. debt is about 73.6% of the GDP; in those terms Israel, Germany, Canada, Egypt, Spain, the UK, France, Belgium, Singapore, Portugal, Greece, Japan, etc., etc., etc all have more debt. Japan's debt is a whopping 214.3% of the GDP and the country has not fallen into financial ruin (and they recently made changes to their long-standing monetary policy).

I do seem to have been encountering an actual forum bug: when I open a forum, I have to scroll through a string of error messages. It seems to be limited to the Sylo forum skin; I'm using Safari 6.05 on a Mac. Example:

Restricting voter eligibility would ultimately just serve as a tool for politically disenfranchising one's opponents.

The swastika is also prominently used as a symbol of the Jain religion. The jade halberd looks awesome, but jade seems like such an odd material for a weapon. It would break easily if not for the magic.