I'm doing just fine. I just finished watching the new episode of Scrubs. Carla is pregnant. I expected as much.

Hello again everyone. I don't play games much, but tonight I completed Need For Speed: Most Wanted on the Gamecube.

Danny: really, check out Grand Central, it's got a lot of decent places. I'd especially recommend a chat with Jim, who has a place in the 'basement'. He sells lots of old stuff, much of which he digs out of the ground himself. Lovely lovely chap.

I play video games in occasional binges. Every time I get a new game, I do nothing else but try to complete it for a few days.

I'll check out the Grand Central next time I'm in town.

Good. Do you know any other good Liverpool record stores, maybe outside of the city centre?

I don't think there are any. There's a few good guitar shops, but that's not the same thing.

Not at all.

How about bookshops (the antiquarian kind)? I only know Henry Bohn on Lime Street and Reeds of Liverpool on Mount Pleasant.

Ii know there's an antique bookstore up by the Anglican Cathedral.. which you mentioned.. uhh..

To be honest, I've never really looked for such places. I just go to Borders for my literary needs. I know we have a bunch of old books in our house, though- perhaps Lark Lane, by Sefton Park?

I don't know that one. I'll look it up. I keep meaning to go to the old site of Liverpool Botanical Gardens, which I think is on Edge Lane. Is that nearby?

It's a couple miles away. You'll like Lark Lane. It's full of interesting shops and whatnot, and I know there's an antiques shop- they'll probably have some books.

I like antiques shops too. Thanks.

http://www.larklane.com/welcometo.htm The community website may help you out.

Oh, double thanks. Regrettably, I'm informed that I must spread something or other around before pointing it in your direction again.

That's quite alright. Same thing happens to me all the time. You have inspired me to change my signature, though.

You never sucked.

edit: Unless you mean in the double entendre sense, which I wouldn't know about of course.

I'm not an active member of the gay community, if that's what you mean. Nor am I a member at all.

Right. That's that neatly cleared up then.

What happens if you chuck an elephant into a black hole? And can the elephant be saved? Some people take this kind of thing jolly seriously, you know.

A researcher has come up with some simple math that sucks the life out of the vampire myth, proving that these highly popular creatures can't exist.

University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou's work debunks pseudoscientific ideas, such as vampires and zombies, in an attempt to enhance public literacy. Not only does the public believe in such topics, but the percentages are at dangerously high level, Efthimiou told LiveScience.

Legend has it that vampires feed on human blood and once bitten a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others.

Efthimiou's debunking logic: On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600. A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have become vampires with nobody left to feed on. .

And I'll bet that Costas Efthimiou reads his research to all the little trick or treaters.

whoa.

....what the hell? This dude=a moron...

I know. Here he is presenting us with supposedly serious scientific postulation, and he doesn't even seem to know that vampires can drink blood and not turn the victim into a vampire! Research? Half-baked rumour more like. Jesus.