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Gem- A clue? OK- William Hurt is in the movie - but he didn't say the line.

I get your point, steff, but I see it more from Henry's POV - that he was an involuntarily being shot from time to time, place to place. He had no ability to change events when he was time travelling - no free will at all. He could only do what he HAD done (or was going to do). All in all, I...

Aqua - great quote - but you gave the answer. Gem - Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. quote: “I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.”

Well, here's what I really want. Suppose I have a spreadsheet that says (one character per cell - spaces are blanks): 1 4 9 A C B D G 3 6 7 I'd like to see it as: 7 6 3 G D B C A 9 4 1 That's if I did it right - and the formatting of...

I joined the computer and tech forum, but can't activate my account yet. Till then, can anyone help me with this Excel question? I want to view a spreadsheet upside down. That's right. I want the view I would get if I turned my monitor 180 deg. Don't get cute and tell me I should do that...

Yeah, stef - I should finish the book because I can't read your spoilers. So, I have incomplete knowledge about what you are saying. Problem is, I'm at work, and while I can act like I'm doing something while posting on this forum, I can't exactly pull my book out of my bag and start reading...

POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW (depending on where you are in the book) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maybe it's a Men are from Mars (and so on....) kind of thing, but I adored Clare and admired the hell out of Henry. Henry is the guy that I wish I were - tall, lithe, resourceful...

steffee- Don't be sorry for arguing. Why should you be? This, after all, is a forum. I have about 20 pages to go - and nothing I've read since page 130 has changed my opinion - only reinforced it. The only thing about your tone that is a little off-putting, is that it has somehow made me...

Well, you're right, of course! Let me change the rule - since everyone has already changed it anyway. If you post the answer, and you KNOW you are right, why wait for the confirmation? Just post the next quote. BUT if you are WRONG and you post the next quote - you're in REAL TROUBLE! You...

Here's my idea for a game (may have been done here before, I don't know): Come up with a quote from a movie. The person that correctly identifies the movie and the speaker of the line (the actor's name or the character's name), comes up with his/her own. The person that posed the quote gets...

I've read abour 130 pages. I've not read most of this thread, and I'd appreciate it if you post any spoilers, to tag them as such. I would like to say, though, that this book is utterly remarkable. When I began, I immediatley discounted any possibility of time travel as it is described...

I'm back! Here's my new TBR pile: The Crimson Petal and the White; The Fourth Hand; Life of Pi; Longitude - The true story of a Lone Genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time; Nelson DeMille: Plum Island; Nelson DeMille: The Gold Coast; The Time Traveller's Wife...

OK- you've won me over. Sounds good. It's on my list. Thanks - I'm off to the store now (got a 10% off coupon).

John Irving? Last I read of his was Garp. That was certainly noteworthy. I've added it to my Check It Out list. Thanks.

Thanks Stew. Have you read this yourself? I'll take a look when I get to the store, and let you know if I bought it. Anyone else?

I know this is short notice, but, I'm off to Boarders to replenish my TBR pile. Any suggestions? I'm leaving in about an hour, so, if you can come up with something fast, I'd appreciate it. From reading the threads lately, I know I'm going to buy The Time Traveller's Wife. I am also going to...

Great poem, Still. For those that don't get it, it's tough to see. It's like those weird optical illusions that you can only see one way and then it suddenly switches and then you see it another way. Oh, you said that - and unambiguously! Psycholinguistics was one of the most fascinating...

I'm intrigued by linguistic ambiguity. I take note of ambiguous sentences, when I encounter them, and I also like to invent my own. I actually did a project in college that studied ambiguity, in a course called psycholinguistics (or, the psychology of speech). Here's an interesting one...

Did the treadmill today. I walked a bit over a mile - at the fairly brisk pace of 4 miles/hour. I always set it to that speed because I remember Richard Backman's (Stephen King's) story - The Long Walk. That story really stuck in my mind. I remember in the story that 4 miles per hour was the...

something divided by zero is not nothing, it's undefined. But if it's anything, it's infinity. Zero times something is not nothing, it's zero. Zero is not nothing, it's a numeral. It is the integer on the number line between positive one and negative one, and postive infinity and negative...