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I asked them for an estimate to build this, I'm still waiting for them to get back to me.

Spelling is man-made, and is only defined by people who care enough to research it. I think my spelling is good enough to convey my point.

Math is something that is a part of nature. Look here:
http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/fibslide/jbfib slide.htm/

and here:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FibonacciNumber.html/

Just think about your experience with math. There is usually one branch of it that is "hard to get". Once someone says that words that link your current understanding of things, to the way they are expressed as a group in math form, then suddenly BING!, you get it. And it's usually something like, "Oh man, so THAT'S it. Oh okay, now I understand." After that, it's easy. Have you never had this experience? I had this experience with geometry.

My wife is japanese, from Japan (she left when she was 25 or so).

I have been to Japan.

Culturally there is very little you can do as an american to get prepared. It's going to be the shock of your life, and not only because it's so foreign, but because it's so modern. Americans equate state-of-the-art with western culture. in Japan, one realizes that state-of-the-art is not American. That's probably the biggest shock.

To get along with the japanese, have "kejime".

quoted from: http://ccins.camosun.bc.ca/~tonks/courses/psyc106/ 106oh5.htm:

"-Kejime marks the ability to sense and appropriately react to given situations."

and from http://www.ed.gov/pubs/JapanCaseStudy/chapter5d.ht ml :

"Teachers emphasize the importance of teaching children to distinguish between times to be quiet and times to be active as well as to distinguish between the noise next door and the quiet activity in their own classroom. Learning this distinction was referred to by teachers as kejime, (to distinguish between) and was seen as an essential socialization process for all Japanese students. One vocational high school teacher told me repeatedly that his goal for his less diligent students was to get them to have kejime so that they could go out into the world of work and behave appropriately in various situations. The architectural openness encourages teachers to teach students to learn to distinguish between appropriate behavior for different times and places."

What about 13) "I'm bored, let's flame somebody" - the Slashdot moment?

I get them at my local college's bookstore because it's the cheapest place in town.

Funnily enough, my University doesn't carry the paper. It's about 1/2 price at Camosun compared to the local merchants.

I liked the paper because nobody else used it - when the profs hand back a giant stack of white paper, you can grab the green and walk away.