Baby Astronaut

If you're still in school, or out of school, what do you do to refresh your knowledge, stay aware of current developments, and learn new things?

Injured his back in a last ditch effort to remove forgotten boxes of evidence left in Rove's previous office, hidden so well they forgot about it Pretty heavy boxes

Hey, well someone deleted my one joke. Maybe they didn't get it and thought it wasn't a joke, since it's more like deadpan humor. I began with: "I'm not exactly a comedian, maybe someone can help me.....Is compassionate conservatism a joke?" Get it? I was hinting their "compassion" is a joke. Lol, eh? Maybe it was too offensive. (but considering the number of political jokes in the thread...)

A (insert dumb person here) enters a bar with a large turd in hand and says "Hey...everyone! Look what I almost stepped on"

I'm past the introductions stage, but only technically since no one really knows me, and so this will serve as a wannabe-intro and bit of a friendly request. If the following sounds unfriendly or negative, that's not my intent. I do appreciate the help people give on the forums. So without further ado... Please answer my questions as you would if a six year old asked. I often spend years researching things I don't know. So if I'm asking a question, it's because I just can't grasp it further, and not by lack of effort. For instance, it took me over ten years to learn how to do newspaper style columns on a word processor, due mainly to unsatisfactory answers. That's unproductive -- and seemingly like many of the answers I get in this forum. I'm using the knowledge gained to help improve the world. However, I often must put important tasks and research on hold, when seeking answers of things which others have a more intuitive grasp of, yet end up feeling as if I've gotten nowhere. Isn't this forum designed to expand knowledge? I wouldn't mind if it took only a day or even a week of research. But when it takes me years when you obviously know the answer, what's the sense of that? If you would like to know how I'm using the information to help better the world, I'll gladly share that with anyone. Simply PM me.