Most of the doors to secure areas where I work have the same combination. Real secure! Every time I enter a door I think of that line. People wonder why I smile at work.

billions. 8.1 annually if I remember right

There's also the problem of ounces (weight) and ounces (volume) . That concept isn't reinforced in enough classrooms. Then you have to have dry measuring cups, liquid measuring cups, and spoons and it gets to be a confusing mess. My wife likes to use a scale, until I met her, I never knew anyone with a scale in the kitchen. Now I don't understand why it isn't more commonplace.

I keep refreshing, but there are no comments. How am I supposed to learn anything about this subject if there are not comments?

That would be the absolute coolest thing in the world. I've been a long time fan of the darksucker theory, to have an actual darksucker would be extremely fun. Lots of applications in a physics classroom.

Here. They can make paper out of kangaroo poo, just take it the next step. Take the initiative and your name can be here in an article on Slashdot as the inventor of poop based accelerometers. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/12/roo_poo_is_stat.php

If she's pretty enough, there are plenty of guys here that will believe anything else she wants to tell us!

This could have worked the other way. If she had been in a crowded bus when receiving the text, and ended up heading to an area that wasn't as crowded as she had hoped, it could have been the opposite, and no one would have been wiser. Random texts or half rings would irritate more than save lives. You can never be sure that the bomber isn't in a preschool dropping off her kids before going to blow up somewhere else.

Or, just patch it through to an external loudspeaker...

Hey, my girlfriend once stopped over at one of our lan parties. She stayed a whole 3 minutes too! So there.