did chuckie finster's dad usually go by charles or chaz? did it change at some point, like after he got remarried?

it depended on who was talking to him

most people called him chaz but a few called him charles, and i'm pretty sure his wife called him charles, and maybe didi too

most of them called him chaz tho, i'm pretty sure all of the men did and i think maybe it was just some of the women calling him charles

oh hm. inthe episode where the finsters got rich I thought I remembered him saying "please, call me chaz". maybe that was chazz.

I don't really eat fastfood (with the exception of the occasional Arby's Chicken Bacon Swiss). and I utterly hate McDonald's food and their ear stabbingly bad commercial jingle (seriously, every time I hear it I want to tear out the singer's throat). but honestly a lot of those weren't all that bad looking.  Though the hamburger meat looked a bit pale and dry in some of them.

EDIT: Some of them looked as though they weren't the normal shape but still if I make a PB and J and then somehow made it misshaped, I'd still eat it. It'll still taste like a PB&J.

I'm sure the poor lighting/photography of those pictures makes a big difference, but if you'd put any of those things near your mouth based on those pictures there is something wrong with you. shut yourself off from all forms of advertising and fast food for at least 1 month and then see what you think

well they kept calling him charles in that one because that is the more FANCY version of his name, chaz is not exactly a millionaire fancy pants name, that's what that was about

As everyone knows G-d is a hardcore gamer and he always plays on "Expert" mode. When he started his latest game, he chose the hardest path: making your people believe in you without any evidence or reason (you cannot be spotted or leave any trace), your powers get weaker the more time goes on, and the humans have a very slow conversion rate and they have the highest reproduction multiplier. At this point it's like one of those stalemate games that you just wish would end but you don't want to quit.

My point is that people cannot write/say G-d because it's challenging for Him.

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Hi GW how do I divide 7 by 156? Is there a proper / easy way?

use a calculator? Or do you need it to be long division?

I want to know how to do it without a calculator / slide ruler

to do it physically you break them up into 156 equal sized parts and compare their size to the size of the original

I want to do it abstractly

Strange things pop up in random conversations. I remember almost being floored when I learned that the generally accepted average I.Q. score for a college student was only in the 115-120 range. A little while back a conversation with some friends wafted towards I.Q. scores, because someone made a 'captain obvious' observation, and someone else responded with the requisite 'You sir, must be a genius!' joke. I remember reading that people can have difficulty in relating to those whose I.Q. scores fall outside of a certain range of tolerance with respect to their own, (I can't remember the exact figure because I wasn't paying attention that closely - I think it was either 20 or 30 points). Two of the people I get along with the best have an average I.Q. score of 152, so it would seem that this theory holds true, at least in my case. I just took the "just for fun" Mensa workout 'test' and got 25 out of 30. In my defense, I was IMing at the same time, so my concentration was off and I made a couple of really careless errors. I kind of wish the questions were randomized, because I'd have liked to have tried it again when I could actually sit down and pay attention to it. Oh well.

I have a 20 point learning disability in math. =)

It looks like something you'd have to round though, I think. You're going to start getting the same sequence of numbers after about eleven places.

Edit - Checked it with a calculator, my guess was pretty spot on.

How do you get close enough. I can't do 7.000 by 156 as that has too many digits.

There was a particular passage in Neal Stephenson's Anathem that reminded me of being in elementary school again. In one part of the book, Raz has to copy/memorize digits of Pi as a punishment. When I was in fourth grade, we had a long term substitute teacher (almost two months) who didn't know how to handle us at all. If you acted up, and lets face it, this is me we're talking about here, you got The Assignment. The assignment was ten division problems that you had to carry out to 28 decimal places before you could round it. You couldn't just notice the pattern and fill it in, because you also had to show your work. This meant that not only did you have to waste a fair amount of time, but paper as well. Thanks to that, I can usually recognize "deadenders" when I see them.

Thank you

ahahaha i have no idea what's going on there, apparently i never learnt long division!