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Washington Post Kind of sounds like Delta's mission, doesn't it? Rescuing 300 kidnapped schoolgirls from slavery and rape... "“It will begin immediately,” Kerry said. “You’re going to see a very, very rapid response.”

Lets say the ambient temperature is 70f. If I have a 1 liter bucket of water at 60f that I leave outside, will it reach 70f at the same time as a 1 liter bucket that I left out at 80f? I guess the bigger question is: does a molecule prefer to gain or lose thermal energy? No, I am not stoned.

I've been using Apple products since 1991 at work and at home, and am getting irritated with having to go through iTunes for everything. I'm even (gasp) considering an Android phone when my current iPhone contract expires. Let's not have an IOS versus Android debate since that's incredibly...

OK, the teen years have officially begun and my wonderful, funny, talented sweetheart has been replaced by a horrid smartass. I seem to remember some aspects of this behavior from my teen years, but they're hazy. Any good book recommendations? Or white slavery organizations I could sell her to?

Question: Is Korean an extremely dynamic language, or is just the way the voice actor I'm working with happens to speak? There's a sound in Korean that sounds like "medah". I assume it's some form of the verb "to be" since it's extremely common. The problem is, when there's music or sound...

I woke up at 3 am this morning when I heard my 13 year old daughter scream. She had woken up to go to the bathroom, and said there was a rat in the toilet, in the bowl...alive. I found nothing. After some brief internet research, it indeed seems possible that she was not dreaming, that rats can...

I never knew his name until today, but I saw him almost every day for two years while we were both riding home, in opposite directions. I waved to him for a month on Laguna Canyon Road before he finally started nodding back. On my way home today I was hoping it wasn't him, but he wasn't there...

New York Times Great article. Guy gets kicked out of both Nirvana AND Soundgarden, then goes on to become a Ranger and Special Forces in Afghanistan. Good lesson: Don't give up when life smacks you down.

SF Gate RIP. The crew chief for Sweden is renting our house while we're in So Cal for the next few years. Sailor left behind two small children. Damn.

I'm hoping so, otherwise it may very well be my starter motor. My battery is putting out 13 volts...

Stomach Flu since 2am. Sux.

I've had a thing for redheads ever since.

The first six months I tried never to be around people drinking. Now it doesn't bother me at all, but I have to admit a certain longing when I went to lunch with co-workers who all had pints. They looked pretty good! Waking up NOT hung over makes it all worth it. I'm pretty sure everyone at...

Hey Lords/Ladies, The place we currently rent came with a refrigerator that's not in the best of repair. Our landlady says that the refrigerator was left by the previous tenant, and that she assumes no liability for it. The lease makes no mention of this. She may require us to remove it from...

I recently rode my 2000 Bandit 1200 down to Orange County, where I now live. My mileage on 5 averaged...wait for it....27 mpg. With it's small tank, I was stopping for gas every 100 miles. I've owned the bike since 2003 and it's always been this bad. I'm an idiot for not addressing this sooner...

I only have daughters, who are pretty uninterested in contact sports anyway but would you let your son play football with contact? Considering all the talk of head injuries, I wouldn't.

Hey Barfers, Our mortgage broker advises us to put some cash into our savings account, like $100k, until we close escrow. This is just to make us look more attractive to whoever writes our loan. I could just borrow the money myself, but that doesn't really help since it shows up as a...

Now thats taking lemons and making lemonade. New York Times

Scientists working on NASA's six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem. But it's a good problem. They have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments. On the one hand, they'd like to tell everybody what they found, but on the other, they have to wait because they want to make...