I was wary at first too, but then I thought about it - it's a little bit like using a serrated knife.  The blades may get stuck in a hair or a particularly dense clump, and the vibrating action sort of cuts through it.  For average shaving, like a lady's legs, it probably does nothing special.  But on my face, after two or three days' growth, it's a serious help - I tested the regular Mach 3 side-by-side against its non-vibrating cousin, and it seriously works.

Initially, I was very concerned about it vibrating straight through my jugular, but I've discovered that's just another unfounded fear.  Come to think of it, that's another question - how are you people cutting yourselves?  I could see if you're using a straight razor, but with safety razors, unless you're dragging it sideways, there's basically no way to do it.  I could see knees, maybe, they're kinda knobbly - but I've got the area around my nose, and the chin, and I've never cut myself.  Maybe I'm just particularly adept.

There are electric razors that pivot?  I have never seen such a thing. It sounds like something that would be useful for the ladies.  I have always suspected that the difference between mens' and ladies' electric razors is simply that the ones they make for ladies suck, but I have never been brave enough to buy a mens' and test the hypothesis.

Heck yes!  My electric has 3 foils in the head, and the whole head pivots widthwise, and each individual foil pivots lengthwise.  It works really well, except for a few hairs which like to grow against the grain.  As for lady razors being terrible, you're correct there.  Apparently, the moisturizing strips and stuff are better on women's razors, but as far as actual shaving ability, men's razors rule.  If your skin's up to it, try out a men's model.

Yes, I'm also interested in why 561 is one too many.  I could see maybe 501, but 561 seems arbitrary.  Am I missing something from this Stephen King book?

But alas, if you have to, Lt. Geyser Shitdick sounds like a guy I could go my whole life without meeting.  Of course now, this thread will pull him from lurkitude just to defend his honor.

I'm number one!  I'm number one!

It seems like such an honor...but, well, it's not.

Aug -

I took the middle road and made your app in C# - because I have a free version of Visual Studio and it's the one most likely to work well for you without an interpreter or anything.

Download it at http://edgecom.homelinux.com/Randomizer.exe, and then put a file called input.txt in the same directory - it picks a line at random and prints it.

Dawg -

Your problem is more complex - certainly possible, but definitely more in-depth.  On the plus side, I'm sure someone's solved that problem before.  In fact, I use to use a program like that when I worked at the National Archives - I'll see if I can find it, or at least find its name.

theinevitable, I think you just had the best college visit experience ever, and you might've missed the significance of it - when I visited Purdue, there were absolutely no girls begging me to come over and drink - it took me a few weeks into freshman year before that happened.

Make the most of it, without losing academic standing or the ability to say, with a straight face, "Why of course I've never had chlamydia!  How silly of you to say!"

Jough - you can't just go changing the header and background image when there's a possibility I'll see it early in the morning at work whille hung over.  I had to reload the page twice before I realized what the hell was going on.

Aside from that, Happy Birthday Hobot!  I'm sure that life will bring you a generous bounty of glee today.