http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider)

On gossamer wings.

I got into a fight with a girl I knew for only two weeks when she said that her dream house had a pool and I said we could get one after the children had grown because I think it is dangerous for small children to be around a pool. Took half an hour to calm her down.

Sounds like a triple win for the malcontents: they had the water balloon fight, they were not going to prom any way so getting it cancelled ruined the other students good time, as well they got to tell the principal to shove it. Oh, and I almost forgot: they proved to the whole school community that the principal is an idiot.

This is way too common. My father published a paper in the 70's describing how accidental and intentional coatings on lab glassware caused inconsistent and inaccurate results. Disposable equipment (like Petri dishs) are the worst because labs do not clean them before use and therefore have an unknown variable.

There is a really good joke about this posted on the Internet. Propriety demands I do not even post the link.

Why bother? It will fall out sometime during the next trial and have a similar effect on that jury.

So, I am to be comforted that an avowed enemy wished us to die. but in a manner that was not directly the results of their efforts?

Why go through the rude process of telling people not to attend? In my youth, the entire town was invited to the wedding but only a select few were invited to the reception. Costs were minimized and everyone was included.

All food has a chance of contamination from workers who do not practice proper hygiene. Most of the dangerous contamination comes from human E. Coli, not bovine or porcine. As well, we are not very tolerant of the bird version of E. Coli which is Salmonella.

Green leafy vegetables cause so many problems because they are rarely cooked. The spinach that got me sick last week would have been fine if I boiled it instead of using it in a sandwich.

Independent vs. Dependent variable.

I, too, was an industrial engineer. My laboratory, in the 80's, had fewer controls than my stereo. This is a seven-step process in which most processes have a single variable:time.

Open your iPhone's Settings. There are more options than this process.

So, now some people are accusing modern society of have attention spans that are too long?

Neatest thing I have seen all week, maybe two. Thanks.