The user-submitted images for the Worst Product Ever Sidelight are awesome.
Now I'm imagining Hill House editions of the old Daw Doubles.
(and oh, drat, it looks like Hill House is no more)
Serge @36: Your knowwledge is so vast it has an extra W!
Serge @30
Did you ever notice that the recaptured escapee who was dressed as a German soldier was played by Lawrence Montaigne, aka Stonn on Star Trek's "Amok Time". Yes, I am a geek, why do you ask?
That's funny, I could have sworn it was that other guy, the one who played Decius in "Balance of Terror."
Happy first-date anniversary, Soren and Velma, and happy survival anniversary as well.
albatross @#116: On the issue of clothing, I agree with you, but in many situations the law is there to prevent socially-accepted wrongs from occurring, and so has to be more stringent than social rules. Civil rights legislation is all about that, for example.
John Stanning @#20:
If a principal wants to protect kids from online bullying, he should join the social networking site that his students use, and then ask to friend them. If they want support from their principal, they will agree, and then he can check up on them with their consent, just like an actual real friend.
If he wants to protect the image of the school, he can have (as someone suggested up above) a code of conduct. That's what my company does--employees agree not to say bad stuff about the company, basically. Google alert takes care of the rest.
Wikipedia has a pretty good writeup of The Dunning-Kruger Effect, illustrated with a screen cap of Stephen Colbert.
For a family of 3 in Illinois, USA, with 2 earners each working 40-45 hours a week, and 1 dependent child:
-without health care, about 27%
-with health care, about 38%, assuming all three of us pay our whole deductable & OOP for the year.
-33% if none of us pays any OOP in that year (unlikely with our health profiles).
Paula Lieberman @#688: My son has a true allergy to wheat & oats, not a gluten intolerance (true allergy=histhamine reaction to the protein), from what we can tell so far. We're keeping celiac disease on the radar, though...he has an odd set of conditions that may ultimately all fall under one genetic umbrella, but haven't grouped themselves in any identifiable way yet (he's just over a year old).
We have a tedious testing routine for all new foods, and I'd like to have a book to keep in the kitchen when I'm brainstorming about what to cook for him. Something that would guide me through a food family to find the nearest relatives of the foods he CAN eat.
P J Evans #637, David Harmon @#639:
Thanks, I'll look for the Western Garden Book. Most family-groupings info is findable on the internet) but not the degree of relatedness, if you follow me. For instance, my son is allergic to wheat and oats, but not to rice or corn. Based on this information, I want to know if he's likely to be allergic to barley. Likewise he's also allergic to several members of the rose family, but not all of them, so having a family-tree type map of all the items in that family would be helpful for deciding what to test next.
Clifton Royston @#638: Apple/cherry allergy is a serious pain--my son has it, and it's very hard to find fruits that are not somehow related. Hopefully your wife's allergy won't hop over to apples. If I find a useful guide, I'll let you know. This site is the most helpful of the ones I go to.
Dave Bell @#24:
You are awesome.
Book recommendation? Of a taxonomic sort, I think. I'm about to start searching but someone here may have a favorite title.
I would like a reference book that shows how all edible plants are related to each other. I'm trying to manage food allergies--my own and my son's--and it would be nice to have more than just the incomplete lists of plant families I've found on the internet.
Any ideas?
Jacque @696: The Open Prosthetics project is something along those lines.
Bruce Arthurs @699: He's going to get a new arm every year until he's full-grown, so the dinosaur theme may change into something else over time, but dinosaur tattoos are way cool anyway.! Eventually I'm hoping to make a custom fabric that looks like a robot/transformer type "skin," but I didn't have the time on this go-round so used a gymboree fabric.
David Harmon @700: physics, schmisics.
Serge @703: Not until he learns to safely operate a spoon.
Bruce Cohen @#720: I haven't done a ton of research on sensory limb stuff, because congenital limb difference doesn't have the same neurological features as surgical amputation. But the RIC does have an awesome bionics program...I'm curious to know if people using these kind of devices have the same kind of phantom pain as people with more traditional approaches.
Serge @#724: you're planning to sleep through your first day at the Worldcon? Seems like a waste of money.
Happy news - my baby son Charlie, who was born without most of the useful parts of his left arm, just got his very first prosthetic arm yesterday. It has a spring-loaded thumb and a ratcheting elbow, and it has dinosaurs on it.
I'm torn between being delighted as a parent and being delighted as an engineering geek, because it is the coolest thing ever from both perspectives.
Chris Eagle @125: Pamela Dean's.
For help in dealing with a demanding professor: Tam Lin.
Whee, fun!
For the customer who is grieving for his dead wife, American Gods and Solaris should cheer him right up.
Dune makes a fine substitute for Bradshaw: On the Family. Family dysfunction at its finest.
I'd give The Tombs of Atuan to those seeking Alice Miller's seminal work on harmful childhoods, The Drama of the Gifted Child.
De Lint's Memory and Dream is a fine substitute for Cameron's The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.
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