Abraham Lincoln: Mathematician

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Add ''Mathematician'' to the set which includes ''Running the Country'', ''Freeing the Slaves'' and ''Hunting Vampires''.

Symmetry

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The nut doesn't fall far from this tree, but it will fall from both sides.

I-Hate-Metric Week, Day Two

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Being 1000 paces, it's actually more 'metric' than the meter is.

I-Hate-Metric Week, Day One

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Easy to convert? Sure. Little more than a yard. Little more than a quart. Little more than two pounds.

Notebooks

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And why is it always the ones who have the emptiest notebooks who cry the loudest to use their notes?

Stressed

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Stressed? Sounds like it.

Lottery

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It's also great to go back in time to swipe some of your old comics and make them new again, particularly when work has you down -- and you didn't hit that lottery jackpot, so early retirement is out of the question.