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Envelope with ricin in it mailed to US Senator. Why does mid-April seem to always bring out the worst in people?

*insert history channel dude*
Taxes.

Ah. That

Hmm. Me not being very experienced in bombs, I don't understand how hard it could really be to make a bomb that has a 100% success rate. Enlighten me internet!

Watching shows like Mythbusters and other programs where pyrotechnics are involved, it seems like even professionally-made bombs can fail to detonate on cue, leading to some very tense moments as they try to figure out if the fuse simply fizzled out or if it just delayed.

Also consider this my PTW.

So close to becoming a Wild Thing D:

Oh god my teacher is crazy.

He seems to assume that everyone in the class is a statistics expert. We need to write a program that calculates standard deviation. He gave us an equation to use, but no indication of which variables go where or what operations to use on them. Standard deviation is not mentioned in the textbook even once. And when I looked up standard deviation on the Google, I'm getting a dozen different equations and none of them match what he gave us.

Why. Why is this.

I was trying to use the ellipses to imply that it wasn't actually all that much like Minecraft. I dunno why I always forget about Castlevainia D:

Your funeral....

Sword of the Stars: 4x game with pretty ridiculous scale. It's pretty easy to quit a game in progress and come back to it later.
Terraria: Like Minecraft, but 2D and with stats, bosses, more weapons and enemies...
Source Engine mods. Synergy is a good one for co-op, while the Hidden is fun if you want a little co-op and a little versus.
Blood Bowl: Competitive only, but it's fun. Doubly so if either of you are into Warhammer.
Torchlight 1 or 2: Haven't touched this much, but it seems to be a bit like Diablo.
The Civilization series: Another 4x game, but a little more mundane.
Vindictus: Action MMO that's pretty fun.
Garry's Mod: Sandbox is always fun, but you can also play things like terrorist hunt or zombie panic.
Serious Sam: The only thing better than gunning down hordes of enemies by yourself is gunning down larger hordes with a buddy.
Portal 2: Co-op puzzle solving as quirky robots. Fun, but short.
Team Fortress/TF2: Shooting people.
Left 4 Dead/L4D2: Shooting zombies.

And that's just my Steam list off the top of my head. Next we have:

Mari0: Mario and Portal mash-up.
Neverwinter Nights: D&D-based RPG. You can download one of the dozens of user-created campaigns and have a blast.
Cortex Command: If you have a good computer and a large monitor, you can play this split-screen and obliterate clone bodies by the dozen. Great fun.
Dawn of War series: I recommend Dark Crusade, but they're all fun.
Metal Slug: Run-and-gun. Get the anthology and you'll have something like seven games in one!
Jamestown: Vertical bullet-hell shooter. Short, but the harder difficulties (which you'll need to play to unlock later levels) can be brutal.

Whew...I think that's everything I can offer at the moment.