science lesson - chickens & stabilization

for you travelers or "new to clothes cleaning...its fabric care hieroglyphics

my fave is the DO NOT BLEACH, bitches. :-)

a name exists!

from urbandictionary

bandwidth speed - fun with Mr. T

Determine Your Bandwidth Speed With Mr.T.

My favorite words

I actually do use them in conversation when possible. Although eminent domain is really hard to get into an every day conversation. :-)

• “network participation”
• visceral
• rubric
• valmont
• eminent domain
• diaspora
• bifurcate
• confluence
• mitigate
• enumeration
• proclivity
• latency
• stagnation
  

"Leaves are falling all around, It's time I was on my way.
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay.
But now it's time for me to go. The autumn moon lights my way.
For now I smell the rain, and with it pain, and it's headed my way.
Sometimes I grow so tired, but I know I've got one thing I got to do... "

For Your Amazon Wish List

A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates

Read the reviews. 'Nuf said.
I own this book--given by a friend

"Cite your source."

The Holy Father

I'm not Catholic, but I was a Religious Studies major. Why does that matter, you ask? Well, I learned to appreciate the appeal and history of various religions, including the symbols, people and texts for the respective religions. Breadth over depth.

However, I felt ignorant recently when discussing or listening to news reports about the Pope. Specifically, what happens when the Pope passes away? How is a new Pope selected (all I knew is that this involved smoke)? Why are the processes the way they are?

Find out more about the Papacy:

Vatican Website
Vatican Procedure to Verify When a Pope Dies
How the Papacy Works - More detailed, Including Election of a New Pope (from "How Stuff Works" site)
Find out how many saints were proclaimed during the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II -- as well as how many of those saints were born in the 1900's (more than you may have thought) (you need to go through the names and dates)

"Knowledge is power......"