I'm not so much close to the edge as hanging off it with cramping fingers.

If you're not on the edge you're taking up too much room.
As for your crickets, up here in the clay belt they are almost as loud as I remember the cicadas used to be at Christmas. All day, all night.
When the drought breaks I hope they will stop singing for rain.

I don't get how they can make such a load noise by rubbing two tiny wings together. Something to do with the resonating chamber they build in their burrows.

I can't help but think that my sleeping pills have given me the headache I have this morning. I wish it would go away, I'm not a morning person and headaches only make mornings worse.

I had to take sleeping pills (Normison IIRC) some years ago and they were great. Eight hours of dreamless sleep. But I woke with a raging headache in the morning. Maybe it goes with the territory.
One cause of really bad headaches is low blood pressure, which can be brought on by dehydration.
Crush lavender and rosemary leaves and inhale the scent. It gives temporary relief.

The Translator widget: I started with "ferme donc ta grosse gueule" which means "shut up" and ended up with "the society this way your large mouth" after flipping between English, Italian and Dutch. Beaut!

The date today (at least in d/m/y) is 8/9/10

I wonder if that makes it a good day or a bad day to play craps?

This makes me wonder why/at what point America decided to change the order of their dates? I don't understand why you would change the listing from smallest unit, middle unit, largest unit to middle unit, smallest unit, largest unit.

That's all.

I prefer D/M/Y. French Canada rules!

As far as I know America is the only country where this convention applies and yet Excel insists on forcing my dates into that format whenever it feels like it :mad:.

thinking of a way to get to another world in record time. I'm happy to be in the universe, just hoping that I was on the other side of the universe.

Q: Why do the Brits drink warm beer?
A: Because they have Lucas refrigerators.

Oddly, studying the exact same thing over and over again for months gets very boring, and makes you much better at what you are doing. People who do a lot of things that bore them, become themselves boring people. QED - If you're really good at something, you are probably a boring person.

(10 points to the person who finds the logical fallacy... Oh yeah, I've been studying formal logic in a limited scope [the LSAT] for several months now. I'm getting a bit bored of it.)

Repeating a task is boring.
Repeating a task makes you good at it.
Doing boring things makes you a boring person.
If you're good at a task, you're a boring person.

Aside from the fact that we all know of counter-examples, the difficulty is that the third statement isn't true.

I think the major fallacy here is an illicit process on the minor term (asserting that because repetition is boring and repetition builds skills, building skills is necessarily boring). are you mailing me my ten points, or hand-delivering them?

Firstly, it was ten points not ten pounds. Secondly, that's not the logical fallacy :). Very close though, just a degree or two off.

@NovaScotion -- In formal logic the truth of individual statements is irrelevant. We always assume the statements are true and then look for the reasons why the argument itself is flawed. So, sorry but no...

I said points, not pounds. I'm American; we don't put up with those silly British denominations (same goes for your religions - who invented Anglicanism anyway? :p).

and are you sure that it's the wrong fallacy? It's not affirming the negative (obviously). It doesn't seem to be an illicit major process fallacy. it might be a four terms error, but that's usually restricted to classical syllogisms (which this isn't - too many premises): the fourth term comes from an illicit shift between two meanings of single term. illicit minor seems to me to be the operative error, though I'm open to seeing otherwise.

Welcome to logic. My idea of it is:
1001 & 1010 = 1000.
1001 | 1010 = 1011.
1001 ^ 1010 = 0011.
~1001 = 0110.
~1010 = 0101.