Don Edwards

Gotta be careful about those vast distances, high speeds, and quick stops. I recently read a story where an aircraft flying at mach 4.5 came to a stop over a distance of 1000 feet, preparatory to a vertical landing. I posted a comment complimenting the quality of their inertial compensators, which are good enough that nobody on board was injured during that 400-G deceleration.

And if they're found, the fairy-size doll takes a lot less explaining.

I have superficial knowledge of a number of superheroes, but Adam West on television is the extent of my in-depth knowledge. To me, "The Avengers" are still John Steed and Emma Peel.

I've heard from a few sources that when you're in military training, if the instructors are yelling at you it's because they think you can do better - and want you to do better (There's a song about why.) When they get all polite and courteous... you know you are (or have) royally effed up.

Question: does anyone actually like arugula? (From what I've seen, it seems like people eat it because they think the stylish people eat it.)

I just hope everyone is smart enough to either deny knowing Cheerleadra's identity, or flat refuse to answer any question about it. (Particularly Elliot needs to do this. For that matter maybe he should practice.)

I count 14-16 wands. (Well, one is assumed based on another that is visible.) And we can't see if there are shoes or socks. The list: Glasses Earrings*2 (one is hidden but assumed) Hair bands *2 Rings*2 Bracelets*2 Choker Necklace with pendant (maybe I should count the necklace and the pendant separately?) Jacket Dress Belt with buckle (again, one wand or two?)

In theory, a scientific experiment can never fail. Either you get more support for your theory, which is good; or you learn something new, which is even better. In practice, sometimes the new thing you learn is that the equipment setup was effed up.

George is on the verge of turning into another minor villain. (Not saying that he will - just that, at the moment, he's heading in that direction.)

What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?

A few years ago we had problems with wasps getting into our motorhome, probably one or two a day. (Eventually I figured out how - via the vent for the fan over the stove - and applied some mesh screening.) It was summer, of course, so usually the door was open all day - so if a wasp landed on the screen door, it was easier for me to shoo the thing outside than to kill it. And one day I learned that a wasp had gotten in the house when it flew a complete circle around my head, buzzing as loud as it knew how, and then flew straight to the screen door. I laughed and said "You've been here before, haven't you?" And let the bug out.

Sam is mostly comfortable in an atmosphere designed for humans. Perhaps a little too comfortable. He falls asleep - but not to the level of being insensate. To stay awake, he needs a bit more oxygen.

I'm pretty sure we know that seers do not get spells of their own. (Let's see, did the whales tell Tedd that? Um... not exactly. Tedd is a "far more dangerous rarity" than a spellcaster. Later we learn that Tedd is a seer, but is that the rarity in question, or is he also something else?)

Spring can begin any time now...

It could be even more extreme than that - it could be like rejecting an American of Anglo-Saxon descent because the Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes and, a few centuries after they left for Britain, that German and his followers tried to take over the world.

But probably not for very long.

I played with that on occasion. Village has a major evil at its heart. The party gets get close, learns that it's an orc village... with an unusual (for an orc village) amount of cropland and pasture around it. And the orcs don't test as evil. They later learn that the exact location of that major evil is a jail cell - occupied by a human or elf. (And the neutral-good orc shaman is powerful enough to keep that evil being in the cell.) One of the best things 4E did was to effectively make alignment optional. Too bad it also oversimplified alignment. I'd complained in 3.5E that the alignment grid, which was supposed to be a square, was actually a diamond - Lawful Good was so much better than Lawful Neutral or Neutral Good, it clearly belonged alone at the top. But that didn't make it necessary or desirable to remove some alignments from the grid.

March, you have my permission to end. Preferably soon.

Dang, Prof, you are getting RAPID weight changes. Seventeen pounds in less than a week, it looks like; eleven pounds in a few days, earlier. The varying stress on your body from the weight fluctuation is worrying, as well as what's causing it.

March is running two months late, from Indiana to Montana. (Can't comment on elsewhere, haven't been there lately.)

but YouTube has a few "channels" designed for cats to watch.

The human sits on the butt warmer? I thought that was the cat's seat.

I think pretty much everyone has a weird reaction to some drug or another (or maybe a combination)- but many people don't happen to ever take the drug that is weird for them. I know my lady has a potentially dangerous reaction to a drug (that, in her, does precisely the opposite of what it's supposed to), and I have a non-dangerous but rather annoying reaction to a different drug (messes up my sense of taste, which is irrelevant to what it's for).

And as I thought about it, 0.43 seemed much too long. So I tried a different approach and got 0.1875 seconds. Which sounds a lot more plausible considering that in 1 second you'd fall 16 feet.

After this page the next 4 pages cover the amount of time it takes from when you lose your balance to when you land on your back. According to wolframalpha.com, the time to fall 3 feet is 0.43 seconds. (And the second page after that has a single panel which lasts six months.)