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Heckle the $hit out of the presenter if they really do believe any of that creationist claptrap. I seem to get slower every day.

Well, if I even existed, I would be pissed at the Higgs. Now X is up to somebody else. :-)

The Universe is a dang big place.

Quiet though it may be, it turns out the Universe is actually resonating in-tune at a frequency equivalent of B-flat. This is true, I kid you not.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 9, 2009 -> 11:22 AM) Heck some might say twice as good as anyone else... MC2X is twice as good. MC2 is even better, unless the speed of light is no longer a constant.

Just you wait and see.

Great dj, that MC2.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 9, 2009 -> 10:29 AM) And skipping the letter X? For shame. Blimey, I skipped Y as well. I read your post starting with "Why. . . ?", and in my addled mind I translated it as "Y". Bother. A shame, too, as I have a doozy of an X word ready to roll.

Zephyrus, the warm west winds, is a Latinized carryover from the Greek, and that is typical of the few Latin words that begin with z. Proper names like Zeus and Zeno are an exception. As to why I sprinkle the alphabet thread with Latin — I had five years of it in grammar school and high school and use it daily in the biological sciences, so why not spread the joy?

"Vermiform" is one of my favorite biological terms, referring typically to morphologies that are worm-like in form and/or function. The name for the pasta we call "vermicelli" derives from the same root for obvious reasons.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Nov 6, 2009 -> 05:46 PM) Weekend of grading, so will probably be imbibing lots of my precious, precious, precious tequila. I had a chance to try El Mayor's Añejo this weekend and it was also very nice. More incredible, though, was the reposado from a distillery called Partida — possibly the best tequila I've ever tasted. Most amazing, I tried both of these at Epcot of all places. They recently opened a fantastic tequila and margarita bar in the Mexico Pavilion called La Cava del Tequila with over 70 different tequilas and a unique range of margaritas that use unusual ingredients like blood orange froth, elderflower liqueur, avacado, caramelized pineapple, and the like. If a place like that existed closer to home I think tequila could begin to challange rum as my spirit of choice. I also had a cocktail that was as interesting twist on the classic New Orleans Sazerac cocktail (it ws the last weekend of the food and wine festival and the wife and I managed to ditch the kids for the weekend to take it in). A traditional Sazerac is made with rye, pernod or herbsaint, Peychaud's bitters (NOT Angoustura!), and a twist of lemon, and is cited by many urban anthropologists (booze historians) as being the world's first cocktail. This is an old-school drink, and is admittedly a bit extreme for the Epcot crowd. But for Food and Wine, the New Orleans Pavilion served up a version called the "Sazzerazz" made with Maker's Mark bourbon, Peychaud's, and some raspberry-infused spirit that itself made for a nice little drink.

Thanks for sharing that. It is an entirely different world just a short distance away from here. Camping out on the Dry Tortugas a while back I really started thinking about it. I was recreating, enjoying the island and the reefs while, literally less than 50 miles away, there is an entire nation of people with almost no personal rights who are often willing to risk their lives for a taste of the freedoms we enjoy.

Everclear and Jager are possibly the two worst human innovations in the history of respectable drinking.

Soxy will give herself away when she performs a psychological evaluation before and after the beatdown.

Tech Beavers Fight Fight Fight!!

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 6, 2009 -> 10:25 PM) Perhaps in a couple hours I'll be posting in that other thread Quite sure you don't mean the one about Gage's penis.

No, it's definitely a term we used for that period in HS American History class. Maybe your class year was too close in time to that period to have a full understanding of it?

Oh yeah, that's the ticket.

Jump up Jump up and get down!

Hand in your thesis?

Rock bottom. We have hit it.

"Creep"??

What is that, or is it a secret?