A great science show I found recently is Bang goes the theory on BBC. I think it's on it's 7th season now, I watched all of the episodes and they are great.

I read somewhere that the cycle is due to the fact that because the sun is made of gas, different latitudes rotate at different rates and depending on how they match up determines the cycle. It's also an average of 11 years, not exactly 11 years.

You must live in an area without many mosquitoes. Spend a few minutes on a cool evening outside in Canada and you will sing a different tune, no doubt. Last year was an epic bad year for mosquitoes. I have a video of them literally coating the fence in my back yard. If it wasn't for DEET you can't be outside.

Not sure why you're so mad....I got a couple of good tips out of the comments. Going to try that game fantastic contraption, and duolingo seems worth a look.

Maybe you should take a quick break and go for a walk, or play some angry birds, or do a crossword puzzle....

Also, in my experience (in private industry) those who don't ask for raises don't get them. This is true for both men and women. So maybe it's not so much that companies want to pay women less, maybe they just aren't on average as assertive as men in asking for raises.

Wouldn't you want an inhibitor and not a catalyst? :)

It's called "procrasturbating".

For sure, I could do without the newborn stage but once they start moving around they are fun to watch and interact with.

My youngest, 10 months old, when he first started crawling he would encounter an obstacle like a door or a chair leg and repeatedly bump into it harder and harder and then start to cry because it hurt. It's like he didn't understand he couldn't go through objects. Seems to be figuring it out now though...

No, I have 2 kids. Don't get me wrong, they can be destructive, selfish, annoying, all of those things, But they don't do them out of any inherent evil, that is for sure.

I have always said how terrifying it would be if a giant baby, maybe 20 stories tall, were let loose in a city. It would cause untold amounts of destruction all while being oblivious to its own malice (babies are not evil). Now we are one step closer, although it will be in some kind of a mech suit and not just physically large.

Thanks AC. I know it's a surprising result. Sometimes things are not so obvious.

Motorcycles are worse emitters of pollution than even your SUV.

Used to pay about $110 / month for satellite HD. Now we have a media server PC in the basement running Sickbeard and Sabnzbd which automatically downloads the shows we watch from a newsgroup service (astraweb) for $10/month. Then we have 2 boxee boxes, one on the living room PC and one in the bedroom that can stream media wirelessly from the media PC, or from the internet, including youtube. I love the boxee box, it's great.

And, since we are in Canada we are using unblock-us.com which is not a VPN but some sort of DNS redirect service. I only have it configured on the boxee boxes so it doesn't affect our whole network, but it allows us to watch streaming US content.

Finally, I have a cheap $10 HDTV antenna in case I ever get the desire to watch live sports...which I don't really. So in the end we've replaced a $110/month bill with a $15 / month bill and it's pretty much just as good.