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rootX

I was thinking exactly same yesterday!

rootX

I want to make this my signature!!! But I am not a hologram

Jimmy Snyder

It's an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Biosyn

Do it :)

rootX

14-15 straight hours of matlab, finally saw the light!

ThomasT

Ivan Seeking

You might want to check with Schrödinger before getting too carried away with that idea.

Biosyn

Didn't he have love affairs with other women while he was married?

Borek

This is known as a Shroedinger marriage, with a superposition of states, when someone is in a state of being married and not being married at the same time.

micromass

Today I made stir-fried Bok Choy with Shiitake mushrooms. That together with fried rice and eggs (the fried rice was from a recipe that Evo gave me).

Wonderful!!

lisab

turbo

I never had a wedding ring, and never wanted one due to the danger of wearing one in an industrial environment with lots of rotating equipment. When I went into consulting and traveled a lot, I was told by a friend that if I was wearing a wedding ring, women would hit on me because I would look like a safe one-nighter. He turned out to be a serial philanderer, so he probably knew his stuff. He divorced one of the nicest ladies I've ever known - an editor for a prominent NYC publisher, and an all-around sweet person.

Mépris

You could have just not worn it to work? I'm not sure how these things work but I understand the ring has some kind of symbolical importance. Heck, my parents don't wear one and I don't think I've seen one in the fingers of *any* of my aunts/uncles, oddly enough.

Haha. I think he might have been over-thinking things a bit, though...

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I found an old geometry book by Harry Lewis - "Geometry, a Contemporary Course" - somewhere at home, and it looks pretty cool. The first chapter is called "Definitions and their Place in a Proof".

Do you hate it when you're trying to remember something but you just can't remember it completely? It's worse when this happens in exams!
I haven't done too much over the past few days, except lazying about with TV shows (mostly bad ones). In something I saw recently, not so sure what (could be anything really), there's a scene where somebody goes like "Meow!" and a woman is somewhat startled. Then the guy does it again.

I really can't remember where that was and it's annoying! I've had this "feeling" before and compared to how annoyed I've been in the past, this is actually not so bad and I think I should be able to sleep no-problem.

Char. Limit

If I remember right, and I probably don't, the ring symbolizes the "binding" of the husband and wife to each other. So I guess its symbolic importance is that of a shackle?

netgypsy

40% increase in risk for heart attack if you drink diet soda, so looking for a link. Well duhhh - who drinks diet soda? People with an obesity problem. And of course, like the survery that said people who were mildly over weight lived longer than those who were normal weight or less, and included smokers and people with cancer being treated with chemo and so on, who are generally thinner than normal in the survey, this one, I suspect has some serious flaws.

I don't think artificial sweeteners are healthy but at least try to get a similar population for a study comparing two things. SIGHHH

Supposedly if you take in 7 or more teaspoons of sugar a day you will get wrinkled skin. I'd like to see the criteria for that study also. But it's interesting because elevated sugar is linked to elevated blood sugar which is supposed to be linked to increased inflammation which is linked to all sorts of major problems. HMMMMM

turbo

No binding here. The last time that gold went through the roof, a friend of mine was buying like crazy. I visited his shop and bought my wife an antique 3-color sculpted wedding ring at scrap prices. He couldn't send it off to the scrappers. She loves her ring and I still don't have one.

Ivan Seeking

Yes, and apparently [as the story goes] his affair helped inspire him to do his greatest work.