We had those, too! I played with my grandma, too.

Actually, turbulent flow isn't actually chaotic. It's random. There's a difference. And you can solve it, if you have a big enough computer and a simple geometry and a lot of patience, but how useful the answer is remains to be seen.

@coverclock: Don't forget that by 'disorder' you can mean a little bit of heat. And I mean like a teeny tiny bit of heat. None of the energy going in is being used for mixing, so no mixing occurs, strange as that may sound.

My cousin hangs out with her husband's ex-wife sometimes. They're both happier that she's married to him, instead of the original situation. The ex-wife is great people, but absolutely not with my cousin's husband. Marriage brought out the worst in her.

Dark brown eyes, dark brown hair, medium fair skin. The lip balm is from M.A.C., one of their lip conditioners, and has been in my bag long enough that I'm not sure what the shade is called. That particular shade seems discontinued on their website. I'm fond of the Maybelline Dream Matte powder, in medium beige.

The best part of the sketch is when the kneading hand swats the licking dog face.

Oh man. I wish I'd have known about that place on Tuesday. (Although the thunderstorm did cool things off considerably that afternoon.)

When my sister was a toddler, she waited until my mother wasn't looking, crawled into her bathroom sink, and started putting on makeup.

It upsets my father in an almost comical way when my mother or sister or I curse in front of him. Sample scenario (me, 32; sister, 27; family dinner at parents' house):

The thing I love best about cornstarch is that it's a non-Newtonian fluid when you mix it with water. So if you fill up a pool with it, you can walk on it, but if you stand in it, you sink. It's actually both really gross and really cool.

Advertisers don't want people to eat better, though. They want people to eat the processed foods that they are trying to sell them. And processed foods often have a lot of calories without actually being filling.

I also decided that I was done after reading the first one. It was a good thriller, but I found that the original title "Men who Hate Women" was more appropriate.

Holy cow I hate that song so very very much.

My lhasa apso sticks his whole face into the water dish and is careless if his ears droop in the water. He gets it all over his little fuzzy beard. I think he likes to make an enormous mess. I don't think it'd help even if he had a longer snout because he's just a gross little boy and likes it messy.

Finding out that a couple of my friends prayed with their families for serenity if they didn't all make it to heaven together more or less killed my willingness to be Christian when I was a child. I thought it was the most awful idea imaginable, that someone could be so obnoxiously selfish and pretentious about…

Have a staid bride but want to do a bachelorette party anyway? Martini bar. They tend to be more upscale and more quiet, and people are less likely to be wasted because the drinks are pricier. Plus, the bride's enormously pregnant sister can sip delicious virgin cocktails (because she's not).

It's worse than that. My friend had to call her sister to let her know that she'd be calling the police on her son (the nephew). This kid isn't getting off lightly. This kid has done some very permanent damage to himself and to his cousin.

This hasn't made my mood any better. I just found out that a friend of mine discovered recently that her 14 year old nephew has been sexually molesting her 8 year old daughter, including forcing her to perform oral sex on him. (Apparently the little sister discovered it and she can't keep a secret to save her life.)…

I can understand the artwork thing. I mean, the Barbie prints will still have value when she turns 15 and wants to repaint her room black. If you're choosing things that have intrinsic value and they're in a place where the kids aren't likely to ruin them, then why not? Chances are, the blown glass chandelier can be…

I wanted to be an astronaut and an astronomer when I was in kindergarten. Now I'm a physicist who teaches astronomy, and I feel that's pretty close!