Keep your own name, hyphenate your children. Hyphenate or portmanteau yourselves when acting as a couple. The kids have to lug a long surname around, but it’s worked for us.

Waterfall charts are great, but a stock chart is not a waterfall chart as I read it. Maybe some later version than 2013 has an actual waterfall chart as a template under stock charts, but you still need to calculate where the bar goes. Proper area charts or proportional bar charts are another gap in excel for the…

Interesting, but if the FM were that interested in politics, either as an end or a means to something else, couldn’t they just take over pretty easily? It seems like their disguises are pretty perfect...

An issue with your color scheme - the Many Faced God is actually worshipped in the House of Black and White.

You can also just use a pivot that slides in your table saw’s miter slot to cut a large number of tangent cuts around a radius. Seems much easier than this approach. I assumed that’s what this article was about, and read it with increasing confusion.

"For those of us who don't do structural calculations every day, it's not an exact science" - err, no. Just because one doesn't understand the science, doesn't make it not a science. Structural engineering, is, in fact, a science. You might as well say, "For those of us who don't build and launch rockets every day,…

Plain charcoal might do something. The main difference between activated and regular charcoal is the surface area / mass ratio - "activation" involves a bunch of processing to create micropores in the charcoal to dramatically increase the surface area.

Most of the original construction was cut and cover - very little deep tunneling in NYC. They just shut down half of broadway for a long time and dug a giant trench in it, laid subway tracks, and covered it up. A lot faster and cheaper - but massively disruptive to the economy. You can tell by checking the shape of…

Agreed! Let's build 3 giant space arks to transfer the population to a new safer world... You can hop on the first one.

PowerPoint has lots of different uses. Applying all this feedback - largely intended for a keynote address - to any other kind of meeting aid or document where you're working with powerpoint cane easily get you into trouble. A powerpoint file can standalone read, a working document to guide discussion for a group…

Sounds like Geidi Prime.

My favorite is #4 on steroids - genetically engineered super-trees that are especially good at carbon sequestration. Maybe they even be designed to include rooms for people to live in, and we can start living in giant planet-saving forest cities.

Wikipedia says Thorin was born in the year 2746 (T.A.), and the events of the hobbit take place in 2941. The wizards arrive in middle earth around 1000, but maxyperk is right, they are essentially immortal Maiar, pre-dating creation.

What's wrong with sailboats?

Peter Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction series is fairly metal. Satan worshippers, amped up hyper-humans, planets getting pulled out of reality.

And pedantry doesn't get you very far.

Farther is only distance. Further can be used in more senses, including as verb. See http://www.dailywritingtips.com/farther-further-whats-the-difference/