Odd facts about the number 2013. It's not evenly divisible by 13.7. Also, it's the only odd number evenly divisible by 1 between 2012 and 2014. Shazam !

U.S. taxpayers give over $1 billion (with a "b") to Egypt every year. Why not give part of that as software and keep the software engineers working in the U.S. It's called tied aid, and every country uses it for foreign aid.

There is no common ground. The far-left Democrats who have captured the party believe in spending and taxing. Period. Republicans believe in protecting the middle class from over-taxation, believing that the private sectors better allocates money than do the various levels of government. You can't reconcile fire and water. Try and you'll get steaming ashes.

Remember what it's like when you open an oven to take out cooked food.? That blast of air is what Death Valley feels like in midsummer. Automobiles don't like it there, by the way.

Haven't you heard? Taxes are for the little guy. The person who can't afford to hire an expert to guide them through an endlessly complex code. The person who can't afford to hire an expert to guide them through an audit. The person who can't afford to hire a lobbyist to badger Congress for tax breaks. In other words, the middle-class American taxpayer. The sucker.

The American taxpayers paid for the initial development of the Internet. Result? First Amendment trashed. Online companies are turning cyberspace into the equivalent of an American university (or should I say monoversity), where one is free to express any opinion one is allowed to.

For reference, that's about half the width of the U.S., or about the length of Japan.

But only if one observes it, according to Young's double-slit experiment. Right?

It occurs to me that, under certain circumstances, encryption might be unnecessary. An eavesdropper expected encrypted text might be skeptical of brazenly published open text. Hiding in plain sight, so to speak.

It is untrue that our brain "makes sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day." In fact, what floods our retinas is a single continuous image, a gestalt delimited only by the shifting field of view as well as blinking, sleeping, etc. Milliseconds later, our brain slices and dices this image, discarding most of it as extraneous to our survival.

Hand me a Kleenex.

West Antarctica warming faster Than thought but East Antarctica rejects all advances.

Wonder if cars will take trips on their own.

Keep your daytime non-poetry job.

West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought? I dunno, I can think fairly fast.