Sarah Palin is coming to Houston! Yippeee!
"Sarah Palin made history as the first woman ever to be elected Governor of Alaska, and the youngest person to ever hold that office.Her straightforward, no-nonsense approach to politics and life captivated the nation and jettisoned her new book to an instant mega-bestseller. "
Official site
I think jettisoning her book is the only appropriate action for it, though I worry about overflowing landfills.
Courtesy of Answer.com, the definition of jettison:
verb
To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective, for example: discard, dispose of, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out. Informal chuck, shuck (off). Slang ditch.
noun
The act of getting rid of something useless or used up: disposal, dumping, elimination, riddance.
jettison indeed.
Just in case you ever need to politely respond to one of these...
1. On receipt of a telephoned bomb threat:
(a) Try to be calm and courteous.
(b) If at all possible keep the caller talking, for example, by pretending difficulty in hearing, and repeat all the information you receive alound
2. Try to find out:
(a) Exactly where is the bomb?
(b) When will it go off?
(c) What does it look like?
(d) What organization do they represent or why are they making the threat?
(e) How does the bomb work?
(f) Where is the caller phoning from?
Some odd notes of potential usefulness as I stumble through dissertation writing:
- Proper figure numbering is accomplished by including the \label{} command inside the \caption{caption} command. Otherwise, it catches the section number...
- Mendeley is great for managing references. Set the web importer up as a bookmark in the bookmark toolbar. It can grab references from Google Scholar, Google books, and many others. I find that the direct grabs from a Google Scholar search are incomplete - where possible click the link through to the page with the abstract, and import the article from there.
- Store your articles with Mendeley's web storage to keep them in sync across multiple computers. To start storing them, right click your "All Documents" collection, then "Edit settings" (Why isn't there any reference to this in Mendeley's program settings? I had a hell of a time finding this.)
- \ref and \cite are very different Latex commands. If a bibtex reference refuses to show up, you probably tried to cite it using \ref, rather than \cite. \ref is for references defined by \label.
And... my theme here apparently has a problem showing bulleted and numbered lists...