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I have a very happy marriage. Communication, respect, trust, all that stuff is important. But, there is one thing that overshadows all other factors, in a successful marriage: Two bathrooms

Anybody that wants to see the pictures of my recent trip: http://marcfriedlander.com/israel2006.htm It's not as boring as it sounds. Really.

"The more intelligent a person is, do they move closer to the line of insanity?" That is incontrovertibly, incontestably, and demonstrably true. Excuse me, I have to go take my meds.

Still-I-Learn See how fast I respond to a well-meaning suggestion? (note new avitar). That's the real me. PMS indeed. The stone head (previous avitar) is on a statue I took a picture of on somone's front porch (kind of) on 80th Street (approximately) on my way to play classical guitar (more...

Whooa! Hold your horses. Restrain thine equines. I'm not a good friend because I'm passionate about being right??? Let's put a few your your fallacious arguments to bed. To start with, Miss Shelf has the right idea about this - it's merely a quandary, as the thread is titled "Thought...

I'm too old for that. Maybe it's male menopause.

Sitaram- True, NULL is very different from ZERO. I'm a database programmer, among other things, and I certainly appreciate the difference between NULL and ZERO. Now, as far as the dry ice, you're wrong about that. When an object changes state - as in sublimation - no mass whatsoever is lost...

Lenny- The Girl Next Door was just as you said - if I recall your exact words without checking the thread - "unremittingly grim and brutal". Both that book and Off Season are at the extreme end of what can even be published in our time. So un-formula - even though the publishers attempted to...

Exactly. The answer is 0.000...0 Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter in an object. Weight is the gravitational attraction between an object and the Earth, and also, the Earth and that object. So, with the Earth as a frame of reference, the weight of the Earth is 0. You would be...

I believe that my answer is not only correct, but more important, provable. Not with a scale (of course) but with logic. Miss Shelf, you actually have come closest - but not with the gazillion........ answer. It was something else you said. One other thing, there is something about the...

My thread about IS TIME REAL may have been a bit on the metaphysical side for many of you. So now, I have a real DOWN-TO-EARTH type question. I've thought about this for years, and I believe I have the answer. The EXACT answer. Here's the question: What is the exact weight of the earth...

With some trepidation, I took a peek this morning. I did it from my work computer, which does not log me on automatically. That way, if I saw - GOODBYE AND DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT - or worse - NOTHING - then I could just go away. I've seen the threads where people...

I don't know what the story is here - but I hate being ignored. It's not that I crave attention - like a child - but I feel like a kid in an adult's discussion group, for all the notice my comments and posts get. Anytime I post anything, when I come back and look at the thread, it just...

In my view, even if solar and wind power were 100% efficient, they do not - and never will - have the capability of powering large population centers. It would be like trying to power your car by turning around and blowing, or sticking your arms out the windows and using a breast stroke on the...

Just after I started this thread, I read the first passage that drew me in - the Coming of Age for Roland in which he has to best his brutish instructor Cort. All at once I was intrigued. Good passage, good action. Then it petered out again and he was in the mine/subway/underground passage...

OK - I'll hunker down and push myself. Thanks for the encouragement - it's just what I needed.

The Graduate was a far better movie than book. I disagree about The Princess Bride - loved the book, thought the movie was weak. Plus, I read it years before the movie came out - as I recall. I wonder if it matters if you see the movie first or read the book first. In most cases, I won't...

Encouragement Needed - Gunslinger I'm about 200 pages into the 1st book of S. King's Dark Tower series. In my typical impulsive way, I bought the first 5 books all at once. I've been muddling through book 1 - The Gunslinger - for about 3 weeks and and I'm finding it awfully hard to get...

By the way, as this is a coffee thread, and this is a book forum, I must recommend The Coffee Trader, by David Liss. It goes into the origins of the coffee trade (duh) and commodity trading in general, as well as having a nifty plot with many twists and surprises. A really great read.

My wife and I never liked Starbucks coffee much. But one day we wondered in and stumbled on a combination that is absolutely heaven in a cup. It's a Venti Vanilla Quad Latte . Don't worry about what it is, just order it. But be forwarned, we now spend a good portion of our take home pay...