@Reg: Too late to put this on your Christmas list?

Kind of hypnotic watching the assembly.

@Robusto ohhhh that's nifty. I like.

Too late for this year's list, yeah.

But maybe I can build it out of LEGO.

The instructions are quite easy to follow.

@Robusto I used to be the youngest this and that for quite a chunk of my life. (Jumped two grades as a kid, everything else followed from there. Entered university at the age of 17. Everyone around me was like 20-25.) Can't recommend it, really. It's just a gimmick. Maybe occasionally a good conversation starter, but that's about it.

If you write a Jupiter Symphony, you write the Jupiter Symphony. Nobody cares if you were 25 or 55 at the time. And certainly nobody cares if you were 35 or 37. Either it's the Jupiter Symphony or it is not. That's all that matters.

Who the fuck even knows at what age Twain or Faulkner or Chekhov or Asimov wrote this book or that.

@Cerberus: What do you know about niksen? Is this article accurate?

> GENERA NOMINUM QUOT SUNT? Quattuor. QUAE? Masculinum, ut hic magister, femininum, ut haec Musa, neutrum, ut hoc scamnum, commune, ut hic et haec sacerdos. Est praeterea trium generum, quod omne dicitur, ut hic et haec et hoc felix; est epicoenon, id est promiscuum, ut passer aquila.

That's my Sunday Donation. :)

Donatism?

Donet?

Donut!

Nobody talks about how the apple variety called 'red delicious' are bland and tasteless and not delicious at all.

@Mitch Because it's ugly? I don't really know why not. It just sounds childish or illiterate.

@Robusto Okay, so like sentence adjuncts. Actually, I have nothing against your use of actually.

It's just that also is treated differently.

And there should be no comma after conjunctions like and or but.

@Robusto The meaning of the word is accurate enough: doing nothing in particular for a while.

In the article, the author seems to use as a form of meditation.

Which is a bit more significant.

But perhaps it works for someone who is stressed out like that.

Always feeling as though you had to be doing something useful—how awful that must be.

@Cerberus This is just where you and I differ. In my view, also at the beginning of a sentence announces that the subsequent material is an addition to or elaboration on what has come before. Therefore it merits a pause and, hence, a comma.

@Cerberus I do never feel that. I like to just idle from time to time. But you seem to be saying that niksen is used the way one might use the word chill: "I just need to chill for a while." Do nothing until one feels like bestirring oneself.

@Cerberus That's fair.

Also, Paris is overrated.

@Robusto In my view, you can simply put also somewhere else in the sentence to indicate the same.

@Robusto Maybe, but it is normally just like idle.

One might say idle and niksen are synonyms.

@tchrist Don't dent de donut.