English has essentially two demonstrative pronouns, this and that.  This is usually only used for something near to the speaker.  It would sound off to most (but not all) if you were to look out a window at two distant trees and call them “this one” and “that one”.  Even those who feel you could say this would, by and large, agree that calling both ( Read more... )

I've taught myself to count in binary on my fingers. It only took a bit of initial explanation from Scott, who figured it out himself while bored during a law school lecture. It's fairly simple, so it's no big accomplishment, but it' kind of cool to be able to count to 1,023 with your hands ( Read more... )