Damaging My Brain So You Don't Have To
For some stupid reason, probably brain damage, I clicked on a link for "The 12 Dumbest [Dancing Monkeys]"The basis for judging them stupid is based on a single quote given at each picture of the...
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Feline Induced Typos
When you have an unweaned kitten clinging to your chest, it affects your typing accuracy.
View ArticleI Can't Breathe!
Sick Of Cleaning Toilets And Mopping Floors, Janitor Enlists For Navy AdventureOhEmGee
View ArticleNa Na Na NERD
They will be mine, oh yes, they will be mine.I spent many an hour being no good at this game getting raped by Anglave and friends via LAN.All things considered, I preferred the more maneuverable TIE...
View ArticleI Am Disappoint
X Wing and TIE Fighter identify the throttle as the sole joystick and there's no way to change it.If I unplug my HOTAS and leave the stick plugged in, it might work, but that's a major pain in the rear...
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Pupdate
Talk about fast recovery! The sore on his face has closed!Happy dance!One more week of antibiotics and we should be done for good.
View ArticleNo Strings
Perhaps the best thing about Disney buying Marvel is that they can include "No Strings" running disjointed in the background of the trailer. It's super appropriate and would be impossible for, say,...
View ArticleIt's The Climate That Does It
That, and the infernal distances.Space is big.One can harp on the topic endlessly and still not impact any understanding on someone.It's mind boggling.For example:Let's make a scale model of the Milky...
View Article240!
What is three times eighty?Three Eighty..380!Get it?I'm here all night, try the veal.Willard suggested a .380 day.Out came The Lovely Harvey's SIG P232, my Colt 1908 Pocket Hammerless and SIG P238....
View ArticleHow Is It That He Had The Gun In The First Place?
Jose Canseco, felon.The 1968 gun control act makes it illegal for a felon to have a gun to shoot off their own finger.Why aren't we reading about Mr Canseco's arrest for felon in possession?
View ArticleSaaaaaaLUTE
Things you just never expect to see.Bitching Betty is a real person, Kim Crow, and she's on IMDB.She has a sense of humor too.For the hoary old Falcon 4.0 someone tracked her down and got her to record...
View ArticleOf All The Things
Trying to write a post about getting detection ranges right in space and figuring out resolutions of sensors...What breaks my brain?Converting between pico, nano and micro meters.
View ArticleWavelength
Back on the dead horse of sensors in space.Most of our familiar sensors are next to useless in space because their in a frequency optimized for punching through atmosphere. Long wavelengths are less...
View ArticleA Note To Manufacturers
If you want me to wear a hat or shirt with your logo, gimme one when I buy your product.Why?Because it's advertising. Budget it that way.Because it's advertising, you should be the one paying, not...
View ArticleCold Snap
There's few things as amusing as listening to the snowbirds complain that they'd just left this "cold" weather.It's right up there with the natives behaving like it's the apocalypse.Yes, the high will...
View ArticleFocus Focus Focus
Lasers.Light is bound by inflexible rules.Luckily, GURPS:Traveller is kind of miracle tech.The standard TL10 turreted laser is 250MJ and X-Ray in frequency. The 1/2 range is listed as 17,000 miles...
View ArticleAn Out
Lieutenant, why is private Johnson dead?Well, Sargent, he didn't want to wake up, so I told him he could sleep when he was dead. Then he shot himself.Never give them a loophole, Sir.
View ArticleForbidden Books
A near as I can tell, I've never read a banned book.I did read Huckleberry Finn before the retcon changing Nigger Jim to just Jim though.Censoring is far worse than banning.The reasoning as to why...
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The reason I'm bugged that the editing of Huckleberry Finn is we shouldn't remove controversy from children. We should teach them about it.So that they learn context.Manners too.While I use the full...
View ArticleMissing Out
One of the things that sucks most about misophonia is not being able to listen to podcasts.Because it's amateur radio hour, there's a lot of background noise to filter past.Like whoever's playing with...
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