From the sista, Katie

[Katie rocks... this is an email I got from her. You should support her in her efforts! -m-]

Hello, everyone!

It is really fantastic to go through my address book and scrounge up all of the names from my distant and not-so-distant past - I hope this finds you all well.

Anyway, I am writing because I have gone temporarily insane and signed myself up to run a half marathon with a group that raises money for cancer research. As we all know, cancer is lame and researching cures for cancer is decidedly not lame. The group is called Team in Training, and 75% of everything raised goes directly to the research. Everything else goes to an amazing program designed to help people do whatever crazy thing they signed up to do to raise money and offering support for people battling cancer. Basically, it's a great program full of very enthusiastic people who are all hopped up on endorphins from running so much.

If you love me and hate cancer, then you should support the effort... you can do so online at:

http://www.active.com/donate/tntwaak/katiestarrunner

which is a very simple little website, but you can make your donations there. If you want to make a donation some way other than over the internet, then let me know and I will send a letter, some kind of fancy form, and I can send a tax-receipt if you so desire. Also, if your company does matching gifts, please let me know!

Many thanks,

Katie Davis

Hexagon City

Has anybody else noticed that the system of East, West, North, South isn't really that efficient? Importantly, we build cities on this principle and we waste a lot of pavement on the extra roads and a lot of electricity on our stop lights. I think Ben Franklin was wrong with his square grid. We should have a hexagonal grid as I outlined below. There are only three directions, not four. You only go one way on a road and they alternate on whether they have two lanes or one. If you want to go opposite a direction, you take the other two routes to do so. It's more efficient going in diagonals and I suspect even going opposite, as above, given the lack of stoplights. More on this later... with Hexagon Globe.

Clump Clump

That's the sound of me stepping off of my soapbox now.

I don't know why everybody hates it when it snows.  With the snow on the sidewalks, it's an opportunity to try out my new boots.  With the snow on the road, I like testing out my amazing skills behind the wheel.  With the giant clothes, I don't have to worry about my girlish figure.  These opportunities to test the limits of mind and body don't come along too often and I love the chance to try it out.  Well... I aggrandize.  It's not the limits of mind and body, but it sure is fun.  My favorite snow is the big floppy flakes where its cold enough for them to stick to everything.  We got that kind of snow on my birthday last year.

-m-

yowza

I can't believe I used to know this stuff... this is ONE SIDE of ONE PAGE of my notes from Ted Lindeman's P-Chem class.

organophosphofructolactohorseshitarian

I am so tired of this nonsense. Take this pill... eat this thing... here's a vitamin that's supposed to cure brain cancer... become an organophosphofructolactohorseshitarian... Hear ye Hear ye. From now on the only things that are going to enter my body are alcohol, chocolate, and perhaps water as I see fit. That is the Davis Diet. So says I.

A thousand points for anybody that can show me an equilateral triangle who's inside vertices are 120 degrees each. AKA they add up to 360, not 180 as one might expect. See if you can wrap your mind around that one.

Then again... Colorado College looks good this year. Eh? Eh? Anybody? Hellooooo.....