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I just find it amusing that 2 trillion dollars can disappear and the country doesn't even care. Reminds me an old Jack Ryan saying "a few hundred billion here, a few trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking about some real money" :wink:

Water you can drink several gallons of without puking, you would actually get inflammed intestines from "water intoxication" before anything else. Your stomach can pass the water right on to the intestine faster than you can swallow it. Drinking milk in large amounts causes puking since the stomach has to digest it first, with water there is no problem. I sort of answered this in a previous post, it indirectly answers your question: Spiffy little fact I came across. Okay guys, hang with me, this is actaully pretty interesting but you are going to need a little bit of background knowledge about the different types of nerves works. Prepare for a 45 second crash course on how nerves can work. A nerve picks up a signal at one end and then does a complicated process, I won't get into, then sends the signal out the other end onto the next nerve. However what sends the signal out the end to the next nerve? Well it can be two things. Either: 1)Neuro transmitter chemicals like acetylcholine, these chemicals are released by the cell into the synapse between the cells, and the molecules wander around the open space until the land by chance on the next cell. This method is pretty simple and sort of slow compared to most other body functions (it still happens in 1/100 of a second, but it is by far the slowest part of your nervous system, it's takes up about 99% of time it takes for a nerve to send a signal) But there is another way... 2. Electrical synapse. I'm sure you have all seen the movies where they show the brain and lightning is shooting across everywhere. Yes, these are the "cr̮̬̉̉me de la cr̮̬̉̉me" of cells. These cells are able to create enough charge to shoot mini lighting bolts over to the next cell instead of using those silly neuro transmitters. Okay so let's review. A nerve cell can either use chemicals (neurotransmitters) or electricity when dealing with passing the nerve signal to the next nerve. The advantages of electrical nerves? Well it's instantaneous, it increases the speed of transmission by almost a hundred fold. Also remember that neurotransmitters are complex chemicals, and a cell only stores so many at once. Meaning neurotransmitter cells can only send a signal so many times before they get tired and need to "recharge". This is one of the reasons why your muscles get tired, the muscles cells are running out of these neurotransmitters and need time to make more. Some cells can't afford this problem, cells they need to work 24/7. The heart for example, is made entirely of electrical synapse cells so it can run nonstop as long as it has food. Every second the lightning bolts are send across one heart to the other, every second of your entire life. In addition to heart cells brain cells connected to your conscious self are also electrical, since they need to work without rest. So heart and conscious = electrical, but what about all your other nerves? Well Different people have a different mix of electrical and chemical synapse nerves. What does this mean? Remember electrical nerves have two bonuses, the first being fatigue (which isn't that big of a deal) but the second is Speed. Remember how slow chemical neurotransmitters work? Yea, well, electric ones are instantaneous. People with even 1% more electrical nerves have substantially better reflexes than the people that don't. Now know what's interesting? Biological historians have traced the bloodlines of famous swordsmen and found that the decedents of people such as Miyamoto Musashi and did tests to determine that these people have extraordinarily high electrical synapse ratios. When most people have 8-12% these people had around 20-30%. The family joked that their grandparents always bragged about being able to do things like catch training spears mid flight and other feats that required incredible reflexes and speed. There are theories that they was a tribe of humans thousands of years ago that evolved through some event and they all had 100% electrical synapse nerves. There people would have been demi-gods in any form or combat or physical skill, they would not fatigue and they would have reflexes faster than you can even image. You probably think you have pretty fast reflexes, well these people would have had reflexes approximately 90,000 times faster than anyone alive today :ohnoes:. No one knows what happened to these people, but their genes have been spread out across the globe. People such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, or "King Arthur" all probably possessed a higher concentration of these genes. Even today, some of us have these genes and some of us don't. Do you win a lot at games like "bloody knuckles"? Do you have fast reflexes? Well chances are one of us at this forum is part of this ancient bloodline and has a higher electrical synapse count... :-s

If you feel up for the task I would have to say Nature as assassin mentioned. Nature... don't take it's name lightly, it's title sounds like an environmental magazine, but it is actually the most renowned scientific journal in the world. If you make the front page you are all but guaranteed a Nobel Prize : It is quite advanced though, might be hard to read casually. For more casual reading I would recommend Popular Science, but it's only in the US -.- You can get a digital subscription in the UK, but I take it you actually want a hard copy? You know, actually I would suggest going to a library and looking what they have there. You can see what interests you and what is your level

My guess is Oranges are called orange because the color was named after the fruit. Now days the color orange is everywhere, but think way back to Roman times. Not many things are orange in nature, especially if you live in colder regions like Germany or England. You see a fruit called orange and then the next time you see something of that color, let's say a tropical bird, you say "Hey, it's orange...ish" This soon became the name of the color, just like how describing something as "metal-like" became a word, "metallic" On the other hand tons of things are yellow in color, such as the sun, corn, urine, and gold. Thus the color yellow got its own unique name.

As many of you probably have heard me lament in the past, I am a junior in college, a Pre-Med biology major. Me and my close friends, 2 guys and 3 girls, are all in the same grade and major. Each grade has about 70-120 kids in in major. I think it's fair to say that me and my friends are pretty well known in my grade by both the the students and the professors. My friends and I all usually score in the top 10% of tests and for the past 2 semesters we have all been student TAs. TAs, or teacher assistants, are given little perks like keys to the labs and in exchange help the professors set up lab or correct tests. But lo, I digress! After two years of packed semesters, I decided to take a mini break this semester and only have 19 hours of class/lab a week instead of my usual 22 hours. This seemingly tiny choice of mine seems to have had a massive impact on my life. On the second day of class I am leaving a TA meeting with my friends and the head biology professor sticks his head out of his door and looks at me as I walk past, he seems to be thinking something over. Finally he says "[Trapical]...come with me". I have no idea what's going on but say bye to my friends and walk over. When I get close he says nothing but grabs his lab coat and starts walking in the opposite direction. We get to the elevator. Note that out science building is 5 stories tall, the bottom 4 floors are split by subject. First floor is physics, second is biology, third is chemistry/geology, and fourth is psychology. The smaller fifth floor is restricted and accessible only by keycard. Upperclassmen tell us it has the chemical stockrooms and professor lounges. Anyway so we get in the elevator and the head professor (who has yet to speak since we started walking 3 minites ago) swipes his keycard into the access panel and we start moving. I am quite scared at this moment, fearing that I'm going to get really, really blamed for something and yelled at... on the fifth floor. The elevator stops and we get out, I have never been on the fifth floor before and quite amazed, everything was renovated a few years ago and this place was spotless. We walk down a short hallway and into a conference room that had half a dozen students I recognized as Biology majors...all seniors. One of them look up and says "He's only a junior" but another guy there cuts him off "Nah, I know him, he's cool". Finally it hits me as to what the heck is going on. I was just promoted from "T.A." to "Research Student" :D Let me explain, at the beginning of each school year at my college 10 research posts open up, 5 for Chemistry and 5 for Biology. Naturally with about a hundred seniors every year in each subject, these spots are quite prestigious. I didn't really know what they did, but I knew it was pretty cool. I take a seat and am handed a thick manila folder. On top of the folder was a keycard and a small map of what the key card has access to, and what else is on the 5th floor. The professor tells us to open the manila folder and that inside were the dossiers (Lol, his words not mine!) of a few dozen upperclassmen biology majors that were "exceptional in both academics and leadership". We were each allowed to choose two lab assistants from this group, and give them whatever task we deemed suitable to help us with. In return for their help, they get their names put right after ours on any paper we publish with our work. The dossiers in the folder were quite personal really, they gave the GPA and class listing of each of the students, as well as a few notes from their professors. I was embarrassed to find my own profile in the stack; apparently I was only meant to be an assistant but at the last minute I was bumped up for some reason. The professor goes to the front and begins discussing this years projects, this year's theme is parasites and six projects were discussed, the five of us each had to each pick the one we liked the most. I'll briefly summarize three of them: 1) The President of the college had his dog die over the summer, the vet said it was parasites. An angry President gave the body to the parasitologist professor at the school and essentially said "Find out what killed my dog :evil:" the professor found that it was a heart worm normally found in birds, and there have been no documented cases of it ever infecting mammals. :-k Task: use molecular sequencing on the DNA, then use your data and search the National Institute of Health's database for a match. If there is no match, you found a new species. Name it however you wish, publish your findings, and warn the Department of Natural Resources that this new species is fatal to canines. 2) An invasive snail species native to central Russia has appeared in the Great Lakes, it has spread to Green Bay and is working it's way through the state towards the Mississippi (to show this a power point presentation displayed a unbelievably sweet animated map that showed the eastern United States and displayed a wave of dark red slowly spreading west through rivers. It looked like a map of Russian troop advancement :shock:) to add to the coolness of the situation the professor pulled out a pointed and tapped the display of the map on the overhead "we must stop the advancement here *jabs at map" and here *jabs again*. Task: travel to this locations in western Wisconsin and set up a perimeter at the river mouths, notify locals, set up a screening station, and work with government officials to prevent the spread of these snails, which are carrying pathogens harmful to humans and water fowl. Once you get back, extract the DNA from one of the snails and send the data to the pesticide companies. "If the snails reach the Mississippi, they could spread as far as Oregon before we could do anything about it." 3) East of Green Bay is the Point Beach nuclear power plant. Several local fishermen have noticed a decrease in the local adult fish population. Preliminary analysis indicates that a potent tapeworm is to blame. The Department of Natural Resources sent a team to identify the tapeworm but had trouble. It was closely related to Diphyllobothrium latum but has a few differences from the rest of the population. These differences were slight but enough to increase the potency of the parasite almost two fold. Frustrated, the Department team gave the entire project to the college for analysis. Task: It is believed that the parasite is a new species born due to a radiation leak from the plant. Obtain more samples of the species, isolate it's DNA, clone the DNA, inject the DNA into the egg of a closely related species and observe for further mutation. Use this data to diagnose the extent of the original [nuclear] mutation and determine the full extent of the effects of radiation on the parasite. Do a full DNA sequence on the new species, name it, and publish your findings in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. I'm doing that 3rd one :wink: . The first two I listed sounded awesome but those were snatched up by the seniors before I could even think about it. When he was describing the third project about the tape worms I heard the words 'name a new species' again so I staked a claim on it and secured it as my project :D I really don't care about tapeworms but I am interesting in the nuclear part of the whole thing and I think it would just be phenomenal to name a new species. Ha, I would be able to say things like the following "No, I'm pretty sure thats how that species is pronounced... I named it" "Hello textbook author? Yea, I disagree with this page in your book, you need to change it. See, your facts are wrong, check the source... you can start by going to Google and searching for my name" :P Anyway, so far it's been pretty sweet. The work is hard but challenging in a good way and its amazing to do "homework" with the feeling that no one has ever done this before. I also enjoy going up to the "restricted" 5th floor to use the vending machines inbetween classes. They are actually 10 cents cheaper then the same vending machines on all the lower floors : it feels like I just got into the Legend's guild or something, except instead of a white cape I get academic prowess. Plus, when I'm done I can say I'm published, or as the professor says "You can honestly say you contributed to science" :uhh: Well, that was a long story. Anyone else do any research of any kind? Anyone else going into the sciences? I hope my story can excite at least some of you a little bit. It saddens me that 85% of the college students in the United States are business/economic/education majors. Compare this to the Chinese or Japanese where ~90% of the students are engineers. People talk of WWIII happening in fifty years, but in reality it is going on as we speak. It is not a war of guns but a war in our cultural and educational values. More and more American students are simply taking the easiest classes they can, or are going into fields just for the money. One would think with the chances, excitement, and usefulness of the sciences they would be more popular; but I guess sex, drinking, afternoon classes, and money are more important to students. *sigh*

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I always thought it was :/ As for the haircut? Dude, it's a haircut don't let it ruin your week. Besides, out of everyone you know, you are the one person that won't be looking at it :

How I wish I could draw as cool as Chris :wink:

Enjoy the position Tripsis, it is a great achievement that comes with plenty of opportunities to help out the forum that you have come to enjoy. :)

The tattoo pierces and stains the mesoderm (the layer underneath your skin) you don't shed skin that deep. Also realize the skin you shed is actually quite transparent; the tattoo image you see is actually located underneath you "skin".

Misfile pwns ur leg0s Thats why lego is probably one of the worlds best selling toys is it? And this "misfile" is a comic on the internet? :-s misfile is far too mighty to be concered with this.. 'world toy market' you speak of.. *Sigh*, looks like i'll have to explain the market to you... 1) Dude it was a joke, calm down 2) Lego = awesome. 3) Lego = Danish = A pie in the face to China's desire to own the world's toy market :

First off, fantastic job, really. I congratulate you on the success of this genre defining web comic. Secondly, wow, I am honored. I can honestly say I did not expect that mentioning Misfile off to the side of my thread on this humble forum 3 weeks ago would result in almost 700 hits. Oh and congratulations on finding us, I did give Chris a link a while ago but the Google method works wonders as well :wink: Oh, and thanks for taking your time to come over here and see us :

Ha, nice one guys. Funny how over the years I went from being "party hat man" to "RS Gen troll" to "guy-that-posts-once-a-month" and now I'm the serious down to earth facts guy. Oh, that and the Misfile virus creator : Okay, my turn: Bubsa Assassin/warrior/Dr. Schrodinger

I have decided to check every other day, that way there is something somewhat substantial to read.

Nicely done, a Berreta M9 and a Glock 19 :wink:

You totally missed what I said didn't you? That picture of the "real gun". Yea, that was an airsoft gun, you can shoot your friends with it. That's why I prefer airsoft, you can totally fulfill your fantasies of "playing James Bond" without having to touch a firearm, but to you it looks just as sweet. Oh and instead of refilling your paint ball gun's tank with paint balls, you reload an aitsoft gun by slapping in a new clip and pulling back the barrel, exactly how its done with the real thing : I have a gun nearly identical to this one, but it's silver

Never liked paintball, the guns look ridiculous. Compared to the 1:1 realism of airsoft guns... I'll take the latter :wink: [/has a $120 gas w/blowback Beretta M9]

The B-2 stealth bomber Exclusive to the US Air Force Nice plane, let's not forget the stealth F-22 and of course the stealth F-117 WORLD STEALTH BOMBER LIST US: Three World: Zero True, counties may have classified stealth planes we don't know about, and counties may be working on stealth planes. But even then, trust me, for every plane China is working on, the US is developing three. Which actually reminds me, China was working on a stealth plane a few years ago. Want to know how the US found out? Russia told them. Russia has some prototype systems that can begin to detect low flying stealth planes. China apparently asked Russian agents if they could borrow some of the technology so they could use it to see how to build a stealth plane. Russia declined and the next day gave the Americans the entire conversation tape recorded. This actually hurt Russian security since it told told the Americans that the Russians had this new radar, but that just goes to show how much Russia hates China. Russia will do anything to keep China at bay, even if it means helping the Americans.

Wait, are you saying China would spend nukes on the navy :lol: Yes, China will spend 20 of it's 100 nuclear warheads on ships. Therefore giving the US permission to use its 5,000+ nuclear weapons on China. The stupidest, stupidest thing China could do is use nukes. Not only would it suck for both sides, but China has more dense cities, less nukes, and less precise delivery systems on it's nukes. And as someone above said... send bombers to a Carrier Battle Group? :shock: I mean, I know nukes don't have to be precise or anything, but even if you ignore the aircraft carrier's planes it's still impossible to get even close to the ships. I mentioned the AEGIS ships before, but I don't think many people here know what they are. They are anti-air ships packing radars of unbelievable power. They can detect a basketball from 150 miles away. They can detect a bomber from well over 1,200 miles away. Chicago is 690 miles from New York. Sending bombers to attack a carrier? Yea... about that... Notice how whenever China gets pissed with Taiwan and threatens to invade the island, the US sends one aircraft carrier to the region, and China stands down? Yes, one aircraft carrier, let alone 20. And as far as stealth planes go, China has a few rumors or designs but nothing concrete. Again, in 20-40 years, maybe they will, but right now Both technology and number are in the US's favor when it comes to planes/ships.

But, they can be defeated by a not-so-country, or very early country in the making, twice, and be pushed back. So I wouldn't use never, then use it again in bolded. Yes we've gone a long way since then, and everything would probably be different variables, but history does prove things. We're(As in the U.S.-.-) friends with Russia and China? In case you didn't notice, Russians have made tons of protests against Americans(CNN, I"ll try and look for a website link...). The Chinese? I'm sorry but there's way to much of things there. I'm Canadian, and I know America and China, or Russia are not on good terms. I'd also like to mention, if they go to the bottom of the seabed, and were there for a year, they can be heard by new technology of Russia's, and I'm sure Russia would give China the tech to find subs. Also, besides the human element, subs bottom of the sea floor, are still vulnerable to natural variables, such as underground volcanoes, earthquakes, and strong under-water currents, which can exceed 1.3k mph. They would be found, or most of them, and if they slip through not hurt, they would eventually die, or be captured, with, or without a fight. If the Country fell, so would any connections, over due time. "I'd also like to mention, if they go to the bottom of the seabed, and were there for a year, they can be heard by new technology of Russia's" Thats BS. A sub resting on the bottom of the ocean makes NO NOISE. It's engine isn't even running. Saying the Russian's can hear a sub that is on the bottom is like saying the Russians can hear a car that is turned off just sitting in the garage. And where do you think China/Russia/the US are not on good terms? Yes there was that little stand off with Russia and the missile placement in Europe, but that is hardly enough to start a war. That's like saying that since your brother ate the last cookie at dinner you are going to kill him :roll: China also, at it's current state would not attack the U.S. China is getting something like 80% of its money from the U.S. in trade, if it declared war the economy would collapse. In 20 or so years the situation will probably have changed... but currently discussing a China/US war is comical. Oh and as for China actually invading the US... you don't live in the US do you? You think Iraqis are a bad insurgency? Do you have any idea how patriotic Americans are? More importantly, do you know how much land the US has compared to other countries that were invaded such as Germany or Iraq? Yea, good luck trying to patrol all the entire continent China, have fun with that. Oh and don't forget the whole "right to bear arms" thing. If a war was breaking out more than half the country more would go and buy a gun. Let's review, 2.3 billion acres and 300 million patriotic, gun wielding citizens, willing to die. If China pulls that one of, I'd give them a dollar.

Russia is our friend guys. The people who say we are enemies have watched to many movies. China is our friend now to, but I do believe it is inevitable that will change in a few decades. But for the next 20 years? Please, sure China is big but its military tech is lagging. They are working to advance their military but at the moment there planes up against the F-22 would be like a samurai against an Uzi. Boats as well, nothing can match the Aegis system at the moment and China has a mere 1 serious aircraft carrier, and it is much smaller than the Nimitz class. The U.S. has 13 aircraft carriers. Each one could hold it's own against a regular sized country. Finally, you can't just declare open war on the United States. Even if you ignore everything else that the US has going for it... one thing ensures that fact that the U.S. cannot be fought against in an open war of aggression. And that's these bad boys. [hide][/hide] The US has dozens of nuclear subs, and just one... just one is needed to ruin someone's day. If a sub lies down on the ocean floor it is completely and utterly invisible. It could be there for milennia and not be found. Anyway if a war with China were to start, just send a half dozens subs to international waters near Japan and have the wait. They can live n their own for months, even years without surfacing. Anyway if one year passes and they get no word back from the U.S. (meaning the US lost the war and/or is taken over) then the subs can launch their nukes. Each sub carries dozens of nukes and the sub commanders would love nothing else but to kill hundreds of millions of citizens of the country that just invaded their nation. Not very pleasant the think about, but its true. As long as the U.S. has nuclear subs, they really can't truly, truly lose a war. They can "lose" a war by just getting sick of it (like Vietnam) but the U.S. can never, never actually get invaded and taken over.

3. You just haven't practised enough. If you had stronger arms and better agility/balance, you'd be able to. You don't need strong arms to do handstands (known from personal experience :oops: ). You just need to have good balance; balancing yourself properly almost seems to make your weight cancel itself out :-k . So ya, if you want to get handstands down, get headstands/tripods down first, then have someone help you do handstands by holding your legs in place. Once you get to the point where you can do it safely on your own, it's just practice practice practice :P . Looks like you are stronger than you think, I've just tested that on my little brother (I made him go into a handstand next to a wall) and he couldn't hold it for very long (by very long I mean 5 seconds) because his hands got tired :lol: (He's 11) I did tripods and headstands before but in my opinion it's a lot more different than a handstand and it doesn't help you learn it. Here's a handstand tutorial. http://www.beastskills.com/Handstand.htm Well, putting aside the fact that I'm a teenager and you're brothers only 11, being able to do a handstand at any given moment depends a lot on how tired you are (whether it be because of sleep or hunger, fatigue makes it harder to keep perfect balance), and how well you can balance. If your brother hasn't been doing it for a while, if his balance isn't great, then he'll get more tired not because of his own weight, but because of any overcompensating for imperfect balance. Still, it's surprising that anyone would need to drop from a handstand after 5 seconds because of weight rather than balance. He should be pretty light at 11, so that makes it even harder for me to understand the concept :-s ; it should be easier to him in matters of weight to strength ratio. Sure he wasn't just losing his balance, or that his hands weren't positioned badly? Nowadays, for me the biggest factor when it comes to doing extended handstands is the amount of blood rushing to my head once I get past one minute :lol: . Our bodies aren't exactly built to have gravity going the other way :-w . [/hide] Now this whole handstand business has me made come up with another question: If I build stronger muscles, will I get better coordination? Not necessarily. Fitness is divided into 4 categories. Improving one doesn't improve the others, but most athletic regiments try to train all four. - Anaerobic (muscle mass) - Aerobic (stamina) - Flexibility (yoga) - Coordination (coordination) Yes, that last parenthesis explanation was required So, better anaerobic fitness gives me more strength (like when lifting weights), aerobic fitness more resistance (when running long distances?), flexibility gives me, well, more flexibility (liken when trying to put a/the foot/feet behind the head?) and coordination better eye-brain-muscle reactions, and balance comes in with it, right? Pretty much. Coordination is a tricky field though, eye-brain-reflexes are just that, reflexes. Reflexes are a bit different; coordination improves with things like shooting a bow, playing tennis, or running over really rocky terrain (rocky enough that you need to watch where you put your feet as you run)

I actually havn't read it yet :XD: ... think I'll check it out now, see if it's any good :-w (though, let's keep this thread on Misfile pl0x :P ). Hardly the one to talk Mr "I'm going to mention Misfile a few times on the other thread and see what happens" :P Heh, but yea, I agree, thats probably a good idea :wink:

3. You just haven't practised enough. If you had stronger arms and better agility/balance, you'd be able to. You don't need strong arms to do handstands (known from personal experience :oops: ). You just need to have good balance; balancing yourself properly almost seems to make your weight cancel itself out :-k . So ya, if you want to get handstands down, get headstands/tripods down first, then have someone help you do handstands by holding your legs in place. Once you get to the point where you can do it safely on your own, it's just practice practice practice :P . Looks like you are stronger than you think, I've just tested that on my little brother (I made him go into a handstand next to a wall) and he couldn't hold it for very long (by very long I mean 5 seconds) because his hands got tired :lol: (He's 11) I did tripods and headstands before but in my opinion it's a lot more different than a handstand and it doesn't help you learn it. Here's a handstand tutorial. http://www.beastskills.com/Handstand.htm Well, putting aside the fact that I'm a teenager and you're brothers only 11, being able to do a handstand at any given moment depends a lot on how tired you are (whether it be because of sleep or hunger, fatigue makes it harder to keep perfect balance), and how well you can balance. If your brother hasn't been doing it for a while, if his balance isn't great, then he'll get more tired not because of his own weight, but because of any overcompensating for imperfect balance. Still, it's surprising that anyone would need to drop from a handstand after 5 seconds because of weight rather than balance. He should be pretty light at 11, so that makes it even harder for me to understand the concept :-s ; it should be easier to him in matters of weight to strength ratio. Sure he wasn't just losing his balance, or that his hands weren't positioned badly? Nowadays, for me the biggest factor when it comes to doing extended handstands is the amount of blood rushing to my head once I get past one minute :lol: . Our bodies aren't exactly built to have gravity going the other way :-w . [/hide] Now this whole handstand business has me made come up with another question: If I build stronger muscles, will I get better coordination? Not necessarily. Fitness is divided into 4 categories. Improving one doesn't improve the others, but most athletic regiments try to train all four. - Anaerobic (muscle mass) - Aerobic (stamina) - Flexibility (yoga) - Coordination (coordination) Yes, that last parenthesis explanation was required

You don't realise what Misfile has caused, have you? :uhh: Hundreds of hours have been lost to that comic, we don't want the same to happen with another one! :ohnoes: Lol, nominated for post of the week. Anyway I do read Abstract, as I mentioned in the other thread. I'm actually quite surprised that Misfile got all the attention while Abstract didn't even get mentioned by anyone till now. By the way guys, its not as addictive, it's more a fun quirky comic, like one you read in the newspaper.