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That's why we get all those "If a train leaves the station travelling east at 60mph..." word problems in grade school... I had few difficulties with math back then, but did like subjects such as geometry, and some of the calculus where I could see the RW applications-- more in tune with the...

Frighteningly, that's what I thought as well... Better hope PETA doesn't get wind of this... :eek:

I like McCaffrey in general, but only some of the work-- Dragonriders, Dinosaur Planet through the Sassinak/ World Pirates series, and the Pegasus/ Talents series. Never really got into any of her other series... I tend to be a "completist" when I get into a series, but have found that the Pern...

"Yeh cahn't get thahr frum heah..."

Last spring one of the student theater groups here at UPenn put on Rocky Horror as the Spring Fling musical... Last night, one of the student technicians working on this week's dnace show started singing "There's a light..." And it was stuck in my head for the rest of the evening... And now...

I'll suggest James Rollins, just for the sake of argument: Subterranean, Excavation, Deep Fathom, Amazonia, Cold Hunt, Sandstorm and Map of Bones. They're modern action-adventure, but not excesively militaristic or political. He also has a knack of putting a unique spin on current scientific...

Way, way cool...

Butcher's series is one that I'll buy in hardcover (now that they're coming out in hardcover) instead of waiting for the paperback. Hamilton, on the other hand, I'll get from the library, if I continue at all-- once the sex overtook the spooky, it just wasn't fun. I did think that her world...

Work's been busy, so I'm still working my way through The Pirate Wars by Peter Earle... After that, I'll be reading Of Plymoth Plantation, 1620-1647 by William Bradford, and am going to try to get a trip out to the Plimoth Plantation living history museum when I'm up in New England for...

Alas, I worked again this year, same as the last eight, so I don't even know if there were any going around-- but the landlord didn't leave half a bowl of candy in the entryway this morning for the tenants, so it doesn't look like much... On the other hand, the college students were out in...

For me, the "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" party game worked-- everyone grab someone you don't know, and sing and dance to each other... we ended up dating for a while after that... Otherwise, Fat Bottomed Girls is my pick...

How about the Jacob Garvin Scarecrow, from the Kargatane's "Book of Sacrifices"? http://www.kargatane.com/index.html The 1e Fiend Folio illustration of the scarecrow had a pumpkin for a head-- that may be what you're thinking of, diaglo... Ghosts would be good, and if you've got the Dragon CD...

Right now it's 1491 by Charles C. Mann, and next it will be either The Pirate Wars by Peter Earle or Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey. Last week was Living on Wilderness Time by Melissa Walker and 1776 by David McCullough... Ok, so it's a bit eclectic...

Much more than I ever get... Coffee is God. Go worship...

Interesting question... I'd like to see Ur and Babylon, Rome in the time of Julius Ceasar, Constantinople and the Levant in the time of the first Crusade, Nan Madol and Tartessos (if it existed), Tenochtitlan, Boston and Philadelphia in the 1600's, and Elizabethan London... I'd like to see the...

I'm still partial to the "Saltmarsh" series...

Just read on the news page that this is immanent at the warehouse-- whoo-hoo! Been waiting for it since the "Septentrionalis" site info went away... and I've been taking a summer session class on "Early Transatlantic Literature," so... I'll second the Newtom's Cannon reccommendation--...

Him? He's in the cave next to that druid, the one with the mushroom... I hear he brings his Queen out too early...

Giant Fire-breathing Blood-sucking Flying Phase Doppleganging Epic Psuedo-natural Sorcerorous Space Hamster Paragon Death Priest Lich of Legend? I suppose the One-eyed One-horned Flying Purple People-Eater just wouldn't be enough...

You could try this: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm There's an online version here: http://www.lucidphoenix.com/dnd/demo/business0.asp I plugged "2000" into the top and it gave an area of ".05 miles or 33 acres", which I figure is about 366 meters to a side, if I've done my math right...