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A group of about 8-10 divers is planning a trip to Tulum on the Mayan Riviera. Does anyone have any wonderful (or awful) experiences with dive shops in Tulum? We're interested in both reef and cenote diving.

Thanks!

We're looking to buy a small retirement property in New Zealand and figure we'll be setting up a bank account there to handle some expenses. I have no idea which banks provide a good exchange rate, interest rate, etc., and would love some opinions.

I'm flying United from Dulles to Stockholm in August, and have a choice of transferring through

Amsterdam

Frankfurt

Munich

or Copenhagen

Anyone have any experiences with these (I have lots with Munich and Frankfurt but would like additional data points)?

Thanks

Navy CAPT Lisa Nowak drove across the country to confront her secret boyfriend's other girlfriend. She wore astronaut-diapers so she would not have to stop at a bathroom. Why not just pee when she got gas? It's 900 miles! (inquiring minds and all that...)

Does this take astronauts down a click or what?

Secondary question: Were Nowak and her secret boyfriend ever on the shuttle at the same time, and if so, we all know what question is foremost on our minds about THAT trip!

Example: recipe I'm making tonight calls for 8 leaves fresh sage. I buy a box of fresh sage at the grocery story for $1.69. It must have 100 leaves. Is there a way to store/freeze/dry the rest so that I can use it later?

Other herbs of high interest: thyme, rosemary, mint

Any advice would be much appreciated!

OK, he's been a member for a year.

He has 220,000 points.

he has answered about 6000 questions, with best answers for about half of them (which is impressive). That's 12*3000+2*3000, or about 50,000 points.

He has not asked too many questions

Say he logs in every day. That's 365 points, so now he has 50,365 points, approximately.

Say he votes for 100 best answers a day. That's another 40,000 points. Maybe that makes 100,000 points.

Where did the other 212,000 points come from?

I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble here, but I'm kind of obsessed.

I used to spend any spare 10 minutes with a sudoku game until 2 weeks ago when I discovered Yahoo answers. Now I can answer 2-3 questions instead! And I'm actually learning something other than pattern recognition!

The last time I dove in Cozumel, it was spectacular, but hurricane Emily came through since then. Has anyone been diving in Cozumel in the last year? Can you tell me how the reefs are?

Thanks!

Something was attacking the earth. People would be killed and then turn into zombies of some sort. Several zombies were captured and put into a lab for testing. By accident, someone made a really loud noise and one of the zombies died, so the live humans decided they could kill them all, but then all the live humans would be deaf. But somehow they prevailed. I am pretty sure it was black and white, and maybe made in the 60s. ANy ideas?

I was on a plane today and see that for about $300, I can buy a 2-cd set of software that will teach me one of a number of languages. Does anyone have any opinion about this?

I heard on the radio today that egg-laying hens are killed in a variety of horible-sounding ways after they are too old to lay eggs. I have been buying cage-free eggs for a while, hoping that the hens that lay these eggs are happier than regular hens. Does anyone know if their "retirement" is any better than average?