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  1. L Gilbert

    Science mag's breakthroughs of the year:2006

    Science's special issue includes its opinion of the breakthroughs of the year: 1.proof of the Poincaré conjecture; To mathematicians, Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture qualifies at least as the Breakthrough of the Decade. But it has taken them a good part of that decade to...
  2. L Gilbert

    Where in the Dante are you?

    http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv I'm in limbo. :laughing7: Thanks for your signature reminding me of the test, JimMoyer. :D
  3. L Gilbert

    2006 weird news

    Reuters - http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-01-02T110559Z_01_L303678_RTRUKOC_0_US-YEAR1.xml&src=rss :toothy8: :laughing8:
  4. L Gilbert

    Dinning Alone

    Odd recipe for cleaning grout. :scratch: :shock:
  5. L Gilbert

    Dinning Alone

    Anything I can eat is what I call "comfort food". I'm on a seefood diet, though. I seefood, I eat it. :D (If I can fit it in). Never was terribly fond of processed cheese. Jay Leno called it gelled goat phlegm or something to that effect. :D But, I like the tomato soup with milk and parmessan...
  6. L Gilbert

    Sir Bono?

    Paul Hewson, aka Bono of U2, is sposed to be knighted apparently because of his campaign to get richer countries to send aid to African countries. Never saw Mother Teresa knighted, or Mahatma Ghandi, but we've seen Sir Elton et al. Perhaps the Brits seem to think in order to be knighted (or...
  7. L Gilbert

    Words that irk you

    Everyone probably has words that irritate them. A few of mine are kilometer when it's pronounced as clawmitter instead of kilometer, contrawversy instead of controversy, ruff instead of roof, crick instead of creek, tounge instead of tongue, groovy, phat, rad (a thing that keeps engines cool)...