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pandas aren't really bears - they are more closely related to raccoons.

I thought the maid threw out my reach replacement floss thingys, but she put it in the medicine cabinet, which I forgot I had... inside I found the tweezers and the nail clippers that I thought I lost along with more dental floss... so I'm not mad at her anymore... I was last week after they cleaned the apartment... I guess I'm a jerk-face.

in "the eyre affair" there are traveling devices called gravitubes. essentially it is a chord [a straight line connecting two points on a curve] drilled through the earth connecting one city with another. given that the midpoint of the chord is actually closer to the center of the earth than the endpoints, you would essentially be falling to the midpoint, and since the amount of kinetic energy generated by the time you reach the mid point should be sufficient enough to shoot you back to the other end point, theoretically a frictionless vehicle can travel through the drilled chord - or gravitube - with minimal energy (this would be the energy to over come any static friction or linear friction or whatever). After thinking this through, I would think that the tube would have to be a vacuum to eliminate air resistance, and there would have to be some way for the vehicle to not touch the sides... magnetically perhaps. however, it would require an enoromous amount of energy to charge an entire tube, not to mention any safety features... however, given zero friction, the acceration of gravity, and more math than I care to share - all travel through any gravitube would take 42.2415 minutes. neat.

pluto is no longer a planet. it is a dwarf planet. whatever that means. who cares anyway? it's not like it is going to shake the foundations of science, and even if it did (somehow) how would what we call pluto make it anymore than a ball of ice. it's not like we are going to live on it anytime soon. it is about 38.49 AU's from earth at it's closest and at the speed of light it would take us 5 hours to get there... but since we currently cannot travel at the speed of light and with current technology it would take us over 10 years to get there, actually walking on pluto is a moot point. not to mention it is hypothesized that pluto's atmosphere actually freezes during parts of it's orbit around the sun...

you need to remember to blink often when playing video games, as people tend to stare and being forced to blink at an inopportune time can mean crashing and burning or completing a level.

I get stupider after watch poker on tv. so I try to forget as quickly as possible that I have watched anything...

stargate sg1 has either been cancelled or put on hold... it is quite possible that the 10th season is the last... although they say they will be looking to continue in one way or another (think movie or other network)... the scifi channel will challenge any move to another network.