--Saudi Arabia has actually dealt fairly well with their Al Quida and Terrorist related problem. They have detained and killed most of their violent fundamentalist radicals as only a monarchy can.
-- The U.S. on the other hand has done a fairly bad job at ridding Iraq of its violent radical Muslims. Such a bad job that Iraq is now a danger to Saudi Arabia.
-- Funny how the monarchy can deal with a problem much better than the would-be democracy can. Be careful what you ask for.

-One space at the top of the rule in Microsoft word is equal to 3em. I'm sure everybody wanted to know that.

- A software agent is a program that has a degree of autonomy, meaning that it can evaluate itself and it's actions and make future decisions depending on it's past outcomes. Think of cell in your body responding to its environment.
- Multi agent is just like it sounds: many agents working together. This system, of linking many small agents of software together is one of the biggest hopes for developing artificial intelligence. think of all the cells (agents) in your body coming together and forming you (multi-agent).
-I love this stuff.

-Equinoxes are when the sun is right over the equator. The sun's light hits symmetrical places of the earth with same intensity. Solstices are when the earth 's poles (north or south) are tipped farthest away from the sun. Equinoxes are in the fall and the spring and solstices are in the summer and the winter. I'm sure I was taught this before but I forgot.

- During the biggest ice age- a long, long time ago- the weight of the glaciers bowed continents.

- Rudy Giuliani promises to end illegal immigration from Mexico if elected. He promises to do this by building a complete boarder fence and bumping up the number of boarder patrol officers to 18,000 instead of 12,000. He has no plan how Americans will start washing their own dishes, mowing their own yards, or cooking their own meals once he has eradicated immigrant labor.
- Rudy Giuliani routinely answers his cell phone when addressing large audiences. He says this will no longer be a problem as his wife just taught him how to use the vibration mode on the phone.
- I do not believe I'll be voting for Rudy Giuliani.

- The meteor that killed the dinosaurs ( I forget its name, I can't remember everything) was so devastating because of the total condition of the Earth and where the meteor hit. There was 10 % more oxygen in the atmosphere so the air was more combustible. Also, the meteor hit water about ten meters deep with a layer of sulfur underneath. The sulfur was thrown up into the air and the water instantaneously evaporated, creating acid rain that could burn the flesh off of creatures. 95% percent of the species on Earth were wiped out. That's the species, not of total life. For that the count goes higher. At least I think I have that right. Source is Bill Bryson.

- The amount of pain a person feels and their overall condition when gunshot is highly dependent upon the situation in which they were shot. Soldiers tend to not need as much morphine or medical care and the theory is they have more to look forward to. They get to leave combat, go home, be treated like a hero, etc. People shot randomly have much less to look forward to: lost work time, medical bills, possible death, etc. This leads people randomly shot close to home to beg for drugs to numb physical and emotional pain. Of course all this is null and void if the gunshot is fatal, no matter who the victim be. Source: radio lab.