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Nobody wanted to offend Clyde.

Or you could use WPA instead of WEP. It's currently considered secure if the key is sufficiently long, 20 character minimum, and it's not particularly any more difficult to set up than WEP.

I work in an California optics lab - all we wear is sunglasses. :cool:

Usually "curve fitting", sometimes "regression"; "interpolation" if you're just estimating values in between the known points and "extrapolation" if you're estimating values outside the range.

That might be a prob with the Wizards freebies too, but I think it wouldn't be a big issue in either case.

On an 8 1/2 inch page, I'd always prefer 1 column, but on paper 2 columns are acceptable. In a digital format, 2 columns are always extremely obnoxious.

I bought the cheapest one, but it was a Linksys. Lasted longer than the card did. I haven't really noticed much difference between routers. Speed isn't a major issue unless you do a lot of LAN games in your home or something like that. Usually, even 802.11b is much faster than a "high speed"...

You're... kidding, right? I happened to see that recently and it's about as faithful to Bedouin culture as the Flintstones are to the neolithic. I mean, it's not bad as 1980s young adult horse films go, but National Geographic, it ain't.

One of the cooperative dungeons would be good. The first 3 are reasonably short, ENWorld, and especially free. http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2500 http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2781 http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=4496& 4 is a little...

I think I would just use a clam.

Judging from the poll, I think most people would have missed "peer" if it had been on the quiz.

I'm kind of that way with dungeons - hard finding the right sized jar for a spider, monstrous, large, let me tell you.

I'm still getting stuck on why anybody would care one way or the other if they had snakes in their yard, much less have some lunatic run around shooting at them.

Not that great of a test. I wouldn't have scored anywhere near as high as I did if they were really picking obscure words. It's biased in favor of rare words in current usage and common words in specialized academic usage. (any geologist knows what an esker is, for example)

Mmm... pineapple golems.

It beats the Miami-Vice era coke-snorting stereotype. Every time I met someone from Fla in the late 80s "...and no, we are not all drug dealers!"

If it's the 2004 one with Keira Knightly, you didn't miss too much. It was kind of a weird attempt to make a historical King Arthur film without all the fantastic mythology, but what it ended up being was not very historical and full of rather unlikely Hollywood action film conventions...

That's where it came from, although it was used as a verb for a long time before I started seeing people referred to as trolls. I suspect USENET in the early '90s would have the first instances.

It sounded pretty rational to me. S'mon didn't say "aahh! run! terrorists are in my refrigerator yahh!!!!" He said what happened and was concerned. He seems to believe that terrorists may have connections with his neighborhood, which is quite reasonable given that London has had several...

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