Keith Pelczarski

I kept waiting for a mighty eagle to pluck the orange guy from the park, leaving the grey, camouflaged guy to reproduce. - Kevin Fox

Like a roc. ;-) - Keith Pelczarski

"In today's excerpt - certain grammatical "rules" that are widely viewed as correct come from the invalid application of grammatical rules from Classical Latin and Greek to the English language by British authors writing hundreds of years ago. Though they have been routinely violated by writers from Shakespeare to Hemingway, two such "rules" are the prohibitions against split infinitives and ending a sentence with a preposition:" - Keith Pelczarski

"Some will call this among the most improbable national championship runs in history. Others will call the Huskies' 53-41 victory over Butler the most aesthetically challenged championship game in history. Those ancillary details, those sour opinions, might matter in 49 states." - Keith Pelczarski

They should have put printer ink on there. - Brian Johns

"Japan is exceptionally well-prepared to deal with natural disasters: it has spent more on the problem than any other nation, largely as a result of frequently experiencing them.  (Have you ever wondered why you use Japanese for “tsunamis” and “typhoons”?)  All levels of the government, from the Self Defense Forces to technical translators working at prefectural technology incubators in places you’ve never heard of, spend quite a bit of time writing and drilling on what to do in the event of a disaster." - Keith Pelczarski

Really well written local account. - Stephen Mack

"As shown in the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Main Sequence stars span a wide range of luminosities and colors, and can be classified according to those characteristics. The smallest stars, known as red dwarfs, may contain as little as 10% the mass of the Sun and emit only 0.01% as much energy, glowing feebly at temperatures between 3000-4000K. Despite their diminutive nature, red dwarfs are by far the most numerous stars in the Universe and have lifespans of tens of billions of years." - Keith Pelczarski

""[A significant number of individuals who achieve at a a high level nevertheless] see themselves as frauds. Psychologists call this the impostor phenomenon. Those who are afflicted believe that their successes cannot be attributed to their own abilities. Instead they are convinced that other people's praise and recognition of their accomplishments are the result of charm, deception or simple good luck. Interestingly, such thoughts tend to surface in people whose lives have been an apparently uninterrupted string of successes." - Keith Pelczarski