Not in my new scheme; the short month would be down to 13, or 14 on leap years. I don't want February to be short though -- it's been short long enough. Calculations would be a lot simpler all around if the *last* month were the short one.

That's right -- a war on Chistmas!

Great, for the 6% of months that are 28 days. Otherwise, not so much.

Actually I'm pretty fond of the 7-day week, but maybe months should be a nice round number of days, like 32. Then we'd get an extra day of weekend.

An Alaska state representative isn't exactly royalty. Which is good. If government was all Kennedys, Bushes, and Romneys, they'd just use their private jets.

But... but... Polish sausage! I don't get it, but it sounds like you're saying: If you hunted & killed it yourself even though you could have just bought food instead, then fuck you, but it's fine to eat what someone else killed -- crossing your fingers and hoping the unknown killer took no pleasure in it?

If you haven't yet, try Novell's build of LibreOffice along with the "OpenOffice.OpenXML Translator 4.0" plugin for import/export of .docx etc. I've found it somewhat satisfactory. Caveats: Windows only, still on version 3.4, registration required for download.

(Not saying this is better than vanilla LO 3.5's .docx support, which I haven't tried yet.)

Certainly is. I can't help thinking that "strip" should go after "finger" though. That's how it usually works at my house, anyway.

Yeah, maps.google.com.my? What the hell's that? Is com.my some sort of nasty Malaysian phishing farm pretending to be a messed-up semi-TLD like co.uk? Or did Google buy Malaysia?

You have to do deep packet inspection.

I wanna download an A-bomb!

Yeah, I think Yahweh would be okay with that. I bet he's big fan of Mythbusters and Amazing Randi though.

Well I'm sure *something* happened, but yeah, it was probably written down years later, and obviously with plenty of mistakes, omissions and embellishments. This is pretty typical of war stories to this day.

I'd prefer to manually select from various available repositories. And if nobody's offering a version I'm happy with, I'm willing to roll my own.

Non sequitur, Horn Wumpus.

Charlatans? Although Exodus 7 has stories of the Pharaoh's court wizards reassuring him by re-implementing some of Yahweh's plagues with their own magic arts... Sticks into snakes? Rivers of blood? We can do that! Hey. if it's something a court wizard can do, then it's not really "god" material, nothing to see here, no need to free those slaves. (Although they were not able to reproduce the plague of gnats, which must have been a little disconcerting.)

Personally I find it much nicer when people in the audience keep their damned mouths shut..