Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

So the side effects are for an excess of Vitamin A, correct? And that's only for people with pre-existing conditions? Doesn't sound so bad to me. Not bad at all, and all the health claims of spinach can be verified (still surprised at the iron though), all mechanisms of action of the various vitami...

Hmmm. I wonder if this would work...

nope. Anyway I can attach excel spreadsheets to a post?

Ah, I see. I worked under a general contractor building houses for a while and was rather impressed with the cost-effectiveness of the owner-builder programs in Idaho. Basically it is where the owner is a second general overseeing each step of the building process. I think that the loans are a bit t...

So, Tao. What's the side effects of… spinach. Ready? Go! Heh, you knew I'd take you up on this... Raw Spinach Low in: Saturated Fat (none) Cholesterol (none). Contains: Niacin .2mg Zinc .2mg Good source of: Dietary Fiber .7g Protein .9g Vitamin A 2813 IU (56% Daily Value/serving) Interesting contra...

So, I'd caught on that you were getting a new home, didn't realize it was to be a new build. Are you going owner-builder?

"Prince Ali, yes it is he, but not as you know him"

Jaffar, Aladdin

heh, I was just thinking along these same lines yesterday, and the one that came to my mind could well be the masculine equivalent to Eirene's loo.

Also, I'm always a bit hesitant to jump into something until I've heard at least a seemingly plausible mechanism of action, and, (and here's the kicker) if it claims to have significant effects, I like to see contraindications. I've become much more sold on essential oils after taking a class on the...

Heh, continuing the animated theme: "It's not my fault! {mea culpa} I'm not to blame! {mea culpa} Its the gypsy girl; the witch who lit this flame! {mea maxima culpa} It's not my fault: {mea culpa} if in God's plan {mea culpa} he made the devil so much stronger than a man!" Hellfire, Disne...

mic0 wrote:So, triathlons. They seem really hard.

Eh, you never know until you tri.

urk. Im'a.... go... food. Now.

I just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Pyramids which I found all too fitting: based in a near-near eastern setting, filled with jokes about math and physics, as well as poking fun at philosophy and philosophers, it fit me well.

Nabokov was also the one who thought that translated poetry shouldn't rhyme, right? Douglas Hofstadter wrote an entire book to refute his ideas. It's called Le Ton Beau de Marot and it's very good. (Don't let the title fool you—it's in English.) Mmmmm, I might be with him on that one. Epic poetry a...

I read Anna Karenina a while back and really enjoyed it, although I don't remember it all that well. (I was annoyed that the translation I read decided to call her "Anna Karenin" instead of "Karenina," because they didn't want to give the male / female forms of all of the surnam...

So, pretty much any author that is good enough to put in foreshadowing and also tell a good story. Maybe any author who puts enough detail and thought into their work that you're not going to catch everything the first time through? I've heard once that things written to only be read one way rarely...

If you can say the Church's full name and then shorten it to "the Church" in later conversation, why shouldn't you be able to shorten it to "the LDS Church" which to me seems more specific? If I were to hazard a guess, it'd be due to the fact that saying "the LDS Church&quo...

Katya wrote:

Emiliana wrote:Oh Katya, I want to be just like you when I grow up.

For my germanic etymological skills or my latent paranoia? (Or both? )

The question is: did the former arise from the latter? Or was it the other way around?

...But I just couldn't take HP1 or HP3 for reasons unknown. Perhaps due to the sub-par writing? Sorry. I tried reading Harry Potter again, to little avail. Rowling's first novel is little better than Paolini's. Would it be cheating to jump to book six and pray that the rhetoric improves as much as ...

Aye, and that's the crux: scientists don't believe in creatio ex nihilo any more than mormons do. Aging the materia of space is no simple task, but a large part of the terrestrial aging (how old the Earth is, not how old the bits are that make up the earth) involves measuring elements and gasses and...

That is, if you can conveniently read both doors. Otherwise you may well believe that they are advertising "nity here!"

Definitely read the OT - it's actually my favorite by far. That said, I never do a straight read through because I skip Numbers and any section that's all about so-and-so begetting what's-his-face. To be truthful we're not sure who so-and-so begot, as he failed to marry Ruth lest he endanger his ow...