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• Commented on Osh Kosh, B'Gosh
  Been to Oshkosh and it's the kind of old, bricky industrial town that looks good to a Midwesterner. You can drive there & back from Detroit in a day, but I won't make that 1000 mile trip alone again....
• Commented on Osh Kosh, B'Gosh
  Some days Sign Painter must be an awesome job....
• Commented on Working steampunk firearms
  I'm 50% sure you're joking but if you're not, and to all the Steampunk haters, please take the time you spend whizzing on someone else's hobby and go create something interesting yourself....
• Commented on Humanoid robot from GM and NASA
  "The real R2?" I thought that was just a little dude in a robot suit!...
• Commented on WTF: "Kids' lingerie" photos featuring Miley Cyrus' 9-year-old sister on a stripper pole?
  You're right. We should have a chaser. Better take a look at this....
• Commented on WTF: "Kids' lingerie" photos featuring Miley Cyrus' 9-year-old sister on a stripper pole?
  They have a cute dog! Hi Puppy!!...
• Commented on Video of Devo playing in 1973
  Devo are still a 'new thing' for me so I guess that makes me very old....
• Commented on How to report the news
  Baby ducks....
• Commented on Make: Electronics e-book on sale for $9.95
  Has it been that long since I commented here? Jeepers! Buy a book about electronics. Even if you don't build anything in it you can read it and you'll be/feel smarter about technology. For ten bucks. Oh, and buy Make...
• Commented on Portland treehouse: swanky Hobbit pad
  Eccentric house designs generally don't work for me. Cool at first glance but showy and odd after that. But this is really outstanding. I'd love to live in that. I get the LOTR reference: organic curviness....
• Commented on Hiaasen's BASKET CASE: hilarious mystery novel about the *last* newspaperpocalypse
  Also Lucky You . It's really difficult to make humor work in a novel length story....
• Commented on How to brew a good cup of coffee
  The mold part made me snort Monkey Picked Tea out my nose....
• Commented on Steampunk wedding cake
  "a television show about brides-to-be with very particular ideas about the themes for their wedding cakes" The Wedding Industrial Complex is really getting out of hand. Seriously, would you want to be hitched to someone who's only satisfied with a...
• Commented on Rudy Giuliani: "We have always been at war with Eastasia"
  Not only that but the Clinton people prepared lengthy and detailed documentation of AQ and their plans to attack us. It was handed over during the transition but ignored. Next time someone of Bush's caliber takes over all briefings should...
• Commented on Animal tries to gnaw through chicken scratch bin
  Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers!...
• Commented on Does noise help or hurt concentration?
  I'm in the no noise camp, with qualifications. I sleep with ear plugs in or I don't sleep at all. I'll wear ear plugs if I drive a long distance alone. I arrive much less tired and stressed. I once...
• Commented on Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection?
  I own thousands of music recordings but I think maybe 5 DVDs, all of them concert recording that were hard to get. We watch DVDs all the time but we rent or Nexflix. I don't get why any adult would...
• Commented on Jane Austen: Proto-Twitterer
  Because the only important parts, the content and selected audience are the same. Medium and format are irrelevant....
• Commented on Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection?
  Good point about backups. Just because the HD and the CDR that you put it on work at one point there's no guarantee that they will forever. Periodically generate fresh backups on new media of anything critical to ensure that...
• Commented on Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection?
  Here's an interesting business opportunity: warehouse the original media for people who only want to use digital files but still wish to own the media for Fair Use purposes. Shelve it all in abandoned auto assembly plants and maintain a...
• Commented on Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection?
  Oh, and since we're shouting out to record stores, Flat, Black and Circular in East Lansing....
• Commented on Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection?
  The hardest part of parting with music is the realization that something that once meant a great deal to you no longer has that same value. Too High to Die is still a stupendous album and here's a perfectly good...
• Commented on Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection?
  Donate. You get a tax write off, Salvation Army gets something to sell and someone discovers early Biggie cheaply. I need to do something similar. I have a wall of vinyl and CDs that I literally haven't walked up to...
• Commented on Commodore 64 unboxing
  Note that the usefulness of the box's current contents has not changed in 30 years, and in fact they'd still be useful in 100 years. I learned programming on 'micros' - KIM-1, OSI Superboard II and C64 in the '70s...
• Commented on Graph compares price of inkjet ink to other liquids
  Hate printers. I let the color tanks go dry in my HP all-in-one and print in monochrome only. I manually refill the black tank until it won't work any more. Amazingly, once when I had a duff print cartridge, the...
• Commented on Body washing with water alone
  On the cleanliness issue, the building where I work installed a bunch of hand sanitizing stations. Curious about the product, I ordered a MSDS. The stuff is 70% ethanol. A liter bag of it has as much alcohol as a...
• Commented on Body washing with water alone
  I just got out of the shower and clicked this post. I don't know if it's necessary or not but I'd miss daily scrubbing with exfoliating mitts and soap if I stopped. It just feels good. And with my ridiculously...
• Commented on Come Back With a Warrant doormat
  Or in the style of an embroidered sampler....
• Commented on Come Back With a Warrant doormat
  True story: In college I was at a friend's house in the afternoon getting ready for a party and blasting music. A cop appeared at the wide open door and politely knocked. She calmly handed a brochure on East Lansing's...
• Commented on Driving on ice in Paignton, England
  Here we look forward to doing that for fun....