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Good job. I answered his questions after a couple of beers, and I was incomprehensible and rude. When asked "What would you do with the UN?", I think I answered "redecorate."

Yes, but wouldn't you rather be invisible?

Richard Powers' work is awesome! Truly, one of the underapperciated geniuses of 20th century literature.

I should scamper over to Amazon and see if he has anything new.

I've always thought Julia Stiles looked like you and I would have cast her to play you in the movie.

I don't know how tall she is, but she's about the right age, has long dark hair, and is a genuine intellectual with a book on math about to be published: Winnie Cooper.

it's nice to read about you like this. Since the odds are astoundingly low that we would ever meet, the chance to see what goes on in your brain behind the scenes is refreshing...

"What is the best novel you've ever read? > It's a toss-up between Anna Karenina and Heart of Darkness. I can't imagine what that says about me, but something awful, I'm sure."

I almost split my side laughing at that...

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Thank you. I've followed your blog for quite some time and find myself quoting you quite often.

IMHO, Danica McKellar and Julia Stiles look more alike one another than Jane.

Interesting interview. I don't think you look that much like Ally Sheedy, though I can see why some would say there is a resemblance. But she can't play you in a movie - she's too much older than you are now. Usually if there's a movie about someone's life, you have an actor younger than you play you, than if for no other reason than you can't do a movie about what you'll do in the future, only the past if it is biographical.

Something else I keep meaning to ask - as a libertarian, what you think about such things as the crap we see from pundits like 'the tax cuts pay for themselves' (which I blogged about myself today) and the shopkeepers (broken window) paradox (which I blogged about a few months ago).

Only an occassional reader and commenter but now knowing that you're a Yankee fan I must hurl.

"More than almost anything, I'd like to be able to fly"...since growing your own wings is probably unlikely--ever think about learning to fly airplanes?

"I don't know how tall she is, but she's about the right age, has long dark hair, and is a genuine intellectual with a book on math about to be published: Winnie Cooper."

She also is one of the few people with an Erdoz-Bacon number!

"The Plague by Camus (in English)": cissie!
By the by, if you like gloomy novels do try the greatest novel in English - James Hogg's The Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

I've always thought you looked like Jacinda Barrett.

Ah, the Yankees.

Remember 1978!

You should read Kenneth Waltz's Adelphi Paper, "Nuclear Weapons: Is More Better," which was published in 1981 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

It's not on-line, but you can get it here, http://www.iiss.org/index.asp?pgid=9387

Nuclear proliferation may actually be beneficial and help keep the peace.

Actually Waltz's paper is on-line. I goofed. (Another paper that cites it gets it title wrong.) See http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/waltz1.htm

I think it's possible to acquire a large amount of money without ruining your life, as long as you know what you'd do with it. I think it's a matter of having a purpose to your life, and being able to apply resources to it, at whatever level you have them.

Most of the people whose lives are ruined by money, I suspect, weren't really sure why they were living in the first place, other than to engage in pleasurable activities. They probably work to live, rather than the other way around.

I'm quite confident I could handle it. I'd buy a house where I wanted to live (a nice one, but not a ridiculously extravagant one) and invest it in all sorts of space ventures.

'She also is one of the few people with an Erdoz-Bacon number!'

Which makes perfect sense for someone who's both a published mathemetician and an actress.

"Nuclear Weapons Is More Better" sounds like something a lolcat would say.

"having voted for Bush in 2004, I'm unwilling to trust my judgement again."

NO FREAKING KIDDING! What a moron!

Calling flying an airplane flying is like calling riding a boat swimming....

If you want to learn to fly, take up skydiving. People might think it's falling, but, trust me, you learn to fly.

so.. who is Jane Galt? (inspired relation to John?)

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