I especially like the ones that allow the dispensing nozzle to be turned up and dispense bacon directly to the mouth without getting your hands greasy. Now if they'd put them somewhere other than restrooms....
While heading down the staircase I realized that another reason why Batman isn't as effective against American* crime as we would hope, is that while Gotham looks like Manhattan, it's really Vancouver. Or maybe Toronto.
*For certain parochial values of American.
If you were wondering about the current crime rate, and why we haven't been rescued from major disasters, Superman is in indefinite detention by the UCIS (INS) as a deportable illegal alien with no place to be repatriated to. While the facility cannot hold him, Superman yields to the law.
Batman, being a citizen and not as law-abiding as Superman tries to keep up, but he is, after all, only human.
Ginger #805:
Cool. I just chased it down and learned more about MRIs, and what they call function MRI (fMRI). Brain is now (somewhat) updated.
Thanks!
Joel Polowin #798:
MRI only sees physical structure, not electro-chemical activity. PET scans can see the activity, and patients can get that kind of warning. Jay Lake* talks about being told to try not to move or think for the hour or so that it takes for the radioactive glucose to bind to the active cells.
* Send good thoughts his way, they're about to remove a tumor, from his lung this time.
I guess you could plow with a mule, if you used to at least two oxen to pull him. [Image of mule with all four hooves dug in being inexorably dragged along by the oxen]
It is clear that Pat Robertson wouldn't get this joke. But then it is clear that he isn't that familiar with the Bible either, and that quote of his sounds like something from the "use only the King James version, if it was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for us" crowd. ISTR that the name Jehovah isn't used in the New Testament, and is, of course, only one of the names of God in the Old Testament.
The New York City Math Teacher #46:
Yes, tonight is also "The Night of Broken Glass", a night that shouldn't be forgotten for much different reasons than the one we're celebrating, I gave up on my attempt to make my earlier toast reflect on both events, I don't have that kind of skill with words. I'm sorry beyond words to hear that you have relatives that were taken to Dachau, and I hope they made it out of Germany and survived the war. I've visited Dachau, and can only vaguely comprehend what it was like to be interned and brutalized there.
Never again.
In a way, Nov 9th was the wrong day for the wall to fall, since it overlays the Kristallnacht history, but I also wonder if the somberness of the day had anything to do with the restraint of the East German guards in 1989.
Jägermeister I think, the medicinal aspects seem fitting.
A toast to all those who had the grace to bow to the inevitable and let what was the symbol of an intractable divide become meaningless overnight. May all the walls that divide us fall so easily, for we are more alike than we are different, we are one human race.
Prost! Zum Wohl der ganzen Welt.
"InfernoCrusherNanoLaserPiratePunk to Bambi Punk, a Survey of the Literature"
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe"
Happy Carl Sagan Day, everyone!
Kevin Riggle #544:
Tom Whitmore @501, Teresa @Particle, could you clarify what you found objectionable about that page, for those of us who remember mimeograph only from papercraft projects in Kindergarden? It seems relatively unobjectionable to me.
I'm neither Tom nor Teresa (I'm fairly certain), but did you see any Science Fiction 'zines in the list? SF fans had a leading role in the "Little Magazine" (Fanzine) movement. But it seems that we* don't count.
*Editorial "we", I never pubbed my ish beyond some minor appearances in a couple of APAs.
Earl Cooley III #73:
It's the age old conflict: Braun vs. brains.
xeger #411:
In dealing with trebuchet parking, I'd also want to find out which way they are pointing. Parking them facing in is considered to be rather unneighborly.
beth meacham #16:
That's a wonderful poem you quoted. Parts of it should be inscribed for eternity in some notable public place for the world to see. Perhaps on a big statue in New York harbor, or some place like that.
xeger #379:
... [so speaking of cooking,]what should I do with two cabbages, and no desire to have sauerkraut for months on end?
The trebuchet is always an option for the disposal of round vegetables.
Abi @ 10:
I was amused at how many of the processes show in "The Complex of All of These" I recognized the instant they were show because I havediligentlydilettantly tried my hand at them over the years (including the mass finger amputation device), with the notable exception of your specialty.
abi #4:
[snip] ... and generally run about the house shrieking on sugar highs.
While you're doing that, what will the children be doing?
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