Pelosi’s theory of contraception is just a hop, a skip and a “universal healthcare” act away from China’s policy of using economic incentives to control family size. The syllogism goes like this:
[imported from http://summa.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-didnt-realize-nancy-pelosi-was.html]
Buckeye Catlicker TSO linked to a post of mine yesterday, whichaccounts for the increased traffic lately.
And I bet no sentence ever written til now has started with the phrase"Buckeye Catlicker TSO".
Via Lunchtime Playground: given a list of pairs of numbers, return alist consisting of the sum of each pair.
pairs = {{58, 96}, {85, 22}, {100, 69}, {5, 37}, {32, 64}, {41, 86}, {14, 0}, {79, 22}, {55, 36}, {86, 39}, {11, 15}};
Six ways to add the numbers in Mathematica:
result = Table[Null, {Length[pairs]}];Do[result[[k]] = pairs[[k, 1]] + pairs[[k, 2]], {k, 1, Length[pairs]}]result
Table[pairs[[k, 1]] + pairs[[k, 2]], {k, Length[pairs]}]
Apply[Plus, pairs, {1}]
Map[Total, pairs]
pairs /. {p_, q_} -> p + q
pairs[[All, 1]] + pairs[[All, 2]]
I don’t remember a Thomas Frognall Dibdin visiting our house lately…
I looked around me with amazement. I had never seen rooms, cupboards,passages, and corridors, so choked, so suffocated with books. Treblerows were here, double rows were there. Hundreds of slimquartos—several upon each other—were longitudinally placed over thinand stunted duodecimos, reaching from one extremity of a shelf toanother. Up to the very ceiling the piles of volumes extended; whilethe floor was strewed with them, in loose and numerous heaps.
You don’t need to buy wipes and you don’t need a stinking (literally) Diaper Genie.
Father Neale’s Essays on Liturgiology and Church History is online! It’s a darned good day.
Here’s a large hi-res (I assume) photo of Papa Benedict for all your printing and framing needs. Courtesy of Archidioecesis Angelorum in California (that’s LA to you & me).
Later – gimp reports that the resolution is 96 dpi. I figure that’s good enough for my little ink jet printer. Oh, notice his black shirt under his vestments? Some blogger noted that it’s the black sweatshirt he was wearing Tuesday in the conclave!
Does anyone here know the current state of research into treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with cord blood stem cells, and whether any clinical trials are being done?
My wife’s grandmother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and two of her granddaughters are currently pregnant, so we’re thinking of banking the cord blood for future use.
A few random Passion thoughts, since I grasp details first and much later (if ever) put together a Big Picture(TM).
So when did you weep during the movie? For me, it was the betrayals and conversions: Peter shying away from “Mother’s” caressing hand; “…you betray me with a kiss? as if he knew the betrayal was coming but its manner surprised and disturbed him; Dismas and Christ’s obvious relief; Longinus baptized with water and blood.
I was pleased with the portrayal of John, a kid with his first scraggly beard and the fearless courage of youth.
The jump moments (snake, cup of water) were especially effective.
Most disappointing moments: the flashbacks to the Sermon on the Mount were in the insipid tradition of previous Jesus flicks: the God lighting effects, wandering and pointless “I’m a teacher” hand movements, bland generic delivery.
Most pleasing escape scene: building a table, kidding with Mary.
Most revolting supporting character: the Roman guy sitting at a table directing the scourging. He seemed to take a pornographic interest in the proceedings, an interest incarnated by the demonic anti-Madonna and child who stopped behind him to deliver a pig-faced leer at the carnage.
Best supporting character (literally): Simon of Cyrene.
Best Marian detail: apostles calling Mary “Mother”.
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