I couldn't agree more. Exhausting and depressing - you hit the nail on the head.

Joe, it's only tangentially related, but bow and arrows are cause a lot of undue pain and suffering to the animal. That's not a pro-gun statement, just a downside of that method.

It's a literary tool to underscore the significance of the second verb by placing a lesser verb before it, then immediately claiming that that lesser verb is not sufficient, thereby increasing the potency of the verb that follows.

She was nowhere close to having her life in danger; there was clearly no storm surge, no flooding and no airborne debris yet. If you want to see someone's life in danger due to proximity to extreme weather, watch what someone like Reed Timmer does.

It was chosen in 1888 to maintain the analogue to "tornado," which was derived from the Spanish words "tronado" and "tornar," meaning "turning storm." And for the record, a derecho CANNOT cause the same devastation as a powerful tornado; a derecho's winds typically max out near the upper end of the EF-1 range, which…

It would be cool if an unexpected consequence was an earlier release of iOS 6.

Although, ironically, it was one of those separators that helped bring down TWA 800, although you are absolutely right about slowing the flow.

I don't need to look it up; my degrees are in math. Mathematicians do not operate under the scientific method and are therefore not scientists; it's that simple. Yes, step 4 is "do an experiment." However, you do that experiment numerous times. There's a reason scientists always talk about sample size, repeated…

Umm, not sure where the attitude came from, but last I checked, mathematicians are not scientists. This mathematician performed an analysis of the flux on a vertical cylinder and a parallelepiped, both of which are extremely simplified three-dimensional bodies and then, like any good mathematician, recognizes that…

This same analysis came out in a math journal a couple years ago; I remember all of us in the math department scrutinizing it pretty closely and agreeing with the analysis. It was definitely a problem we liked to debate a lot.

Interesting idea. On a related note - I visit my horse for about four hours a day and my iPhone is simply not made to stand up to the mud, dust, hair, water, etc... that's involved. Maybe purchasing an old 3GS or something and switching out the SIM would be a wise idea; I've already had a few…

True, but we call that "pacing" nowadays. No one actually uses "tripple" for that gait anymore.

That was the running joke in our math department - if everyone would just realize you could count to 1,023 on ten fingers in binary, we'd all be living in base-2.

Among other things, like having a completely blank left hand, but having the E below middle C in the right hand...

I don't mean to be petty, but if they were going to release this, would it have been that hard to ask someone who knows what they're doing how to properly notate it? It's only four measures.

Google engineer #1: "Jelly Bean's head just fell off!"

Not to sound trollish, but the fact that we're a first world country with an aging third world infrastructure doesn't help the issue either.

Couldn't agree more about streamlining. Excellent point.

"So the benefits here are clear. You meet a cute somebody at a concert, you're like, "Hey, we should be Facebook friends," and they're like "OMG, totes!" "

Eh, I also think that it is simply not a crucial enough trait to weed itself out from an evolutionary standpoint. Most traits that have been weeded out by evolution were those that could truly have life or death consequences, thus, the effect of evolution. This just doesn't seem to fit that bill, but hey, I'm no…