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In regards to falling, rolling, and thumping:  A fall coverts the potential energy of height into the kinetic energy of motion.  In a straight fall, all that kinetic energy is downward.  But if you roll using the energy of the fall, some--ideally most--of that energy goes into spinning you, so you hit the ground or floor with less linear velocity, less downward velocity, and less kinetic energy in the direction normal to (perpendicular to) the floor.

I'm not sure they'll ever get fully reconstructed.

I just tested the naked circuit board for the redesigned/rebuilt LDO 12v regulated supply.  It doesn't work.  I know where the wiring error is, but I'm not going to fool with it now.  (It looks like there may be two complementary errors.)

Time to wash up and get to writing.

After this I have a long list of partially finished electronics.  The first couple of items on the list aren't too big a deal, although they may take an hour or two.  After that I have a somewhat larger project, though it should be straightforward (crosses fingers).

Quickies, which are public messages.

A mad science superwoman comes into her powers.  Hilarity ensues.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090803

Under all ot that, it's an amazingly well-crafted story.  All the parts hang together, at every level.

I created it.  Two and a half days later it was not with any of my notes.

He's not going to recover from a femoral artery opened with both entry and exit wounds.  He's liable to suffer a severe blood pressure drop and go faint.  And then loose consciousness, and then die.  (This is for her final attack on Peter.)

That's what I wrote!

In her state?  Even if she sets out to do that, I don't think she'll have time to orient.

Depends how strong it is.  (Remember, it will fall off as the square of the distance from the generator.)  Close up it might fry electronics; further out it may just scramble logic circuits, requiring a restart to clear.  If those logic circuits are controlling power switching equipment like motor controllers, something in those circuits might be fried when the control circuits space out.  Further out still, it's severe RF interference (QRM).

I mean not in the world (universe), and not just in that particular World.  None of these characters has even heard of such a thing, with the very slightly possible exception of Kirsey and Master Threckesrom.

Remember, in our world distilled spirits, even by your dates, did not become widespread untill the 1400's.

It would appear that the software wants the portfolio to be set to full internet access, which allows people who haven't agreed to Terms of Service to see it.  Those Terms of Service protect your copyright on your work.

And helpful.

On the subject of floating objects on the page: nearly all of them are for advertisers or for the convenience (profit) of the web page owner.  The only one I've seen that is of genuine help to the user is the column headers used by DigiKey.