From a distance it can be difficult, or impossible, to tell whether an environment is buffered or not. keywords: [life] [regime] [topological index] [elbow room]

Grading papers is simply an in-your-face form of correspondence. keywords: [education] [instruction] [training] [teaching] [learning] [study] [curriculum] [educator]

Swatting a fly is a great example of how your standard of living depends on close figuring. keywords: [precision] [mls] [life]

‘lol’ has degenerated to being a stand-in for nervous laughter. keywords: [abbreviations] [cyberspace] [social media] [psychology]

Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. keywords: [Cellular Biology] [Physiology] [chemical solutions] [Chemistry] [Thermodynamics] [concentration]

A man whose mind is wandering will have fixed ideas. (Note that this shows that ‘will’ is also used as an emphatic form of the present tense.) (cf: “If a man’s mind be wandering, let him study mathematics.” – Francis Bacon) keywords: [mentality] [self-control] [psychology]

Tourism is the favorite false road to spirituality, and the most prevalent form of tourism is in-place tourism, zoos being a prominent instance of which. keywords: [fallacy] [mentality] [misdirection] [religion]

phenomenon: direct access to operator status, via a very deep back door. keywords: [cheating] [games] [gaming]

Here is the link to a discussion of this. keywords: [Mathematics] [Number Theory] [ring of integers]

Definition: Mathematics is that which in comparison to which all other work is secretarial in nature. keywords: [difficulty] [point of view] [perspective] [prestige] [stamp-collecting] [stamp collecting]