Why the harsh words:

<Sten Duncan> The fact that you enjoy distrupting other peoples game play makes you a sociopath.

:(

QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin script. The name comes from reading the first six keys appearing on the top left letter row of the keyboard (Q W E R T Y) from left to right. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in 1873.

Turkish coffee (Turkish: Türk kahvesi) is a method of preparing unfiltered coffee. Roasted and then finely ground coffee beans are simmered (not boiled) in a pot (cezve), optionally with sugar, and served in a cup where the grounds are allowed to settle. At present, it is found in the Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and Middle East.

At present, it is found in the Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans, [at Lecter's place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,] and Middle East.

Gods that stuff is good, especially in comparison to the crap the locals here peddle as "Kona coffee."

Red velvet cake is a chocolate cake with either a dark red, bright red or red-brown color. It is traditionally prepared as a layer cake topped with cream cheese or cooked roux icing.

Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, cocoa, and flour for the cake, beetroot or red food coloring for the color.

I don't understand what we're doing here...

Wheels is a newly started web-serial telling story of a normalish guy named George and his efforts to defend the city of Forchester from the wretched forces of scum and villainy. The story is updated weekly with one chapter posted every Friday, and it is planned to run for a total of 15-20 chapters.

I must have missed something important...

No, you didn't miss anything. I'm the one who missed something: my deadline! But it's okay; Chapter Two is online now, only twelve hours late. Whee!

My Point stands

Mathematical reasoning is the critical skill that enables a student to make use of all other mathematical skills. With the development of mathematical reasoning, students recognize that mathematics makes sense and can be understood.

My Point stands

If it 'stands' longer than four hours, seek medical attention (or a well-stocked brothel).

I take it they have plenty of high quality brothels down at Hawaii?

/me wonders what the hell people are talking about here

I take it they have plenty of high quality brothels down at Hawaii?

Only if you really like... eating sushi. I'm always worried I'll break the damn things.

Portrait of Monsieur Bertin is an 1832 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassicist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It depicts Louis-François Bertin (1766–1841), a writer, art collector and director of the pro-royalist Journal des débats. Having achieved acclaim as a history painter, Ingres accepted portrait commissions with reluctance, regarding them as a distraction. The painting had a prolonged genesis; he agonised over the pose and made several preparatory sketches. The final work presents Bertin as a personification of the commercially minded leaders of the liberal reign of Louis Philippe I, emanating a restless energy. He is physically imposing and self-assured but his real-life personality shines through – warm, wry and engaging to those who had earned his trust. The portrait is an unflinchingly realistic depiction of aging; Ingres emphasises the furrowed skin and thinning hair of an overweight man who maintains his resolve and determination. Although Bertin's family worried that the painting might been seen as a caricature, it is widely regarded as Ingres' finest male portrait and has been at the Musée du Louvre since 1897

[I fixed your link. You have to get the url of the photo itself, not the page. -W]