Why not? It wasn't too long ago when someone wrote about a paper entitled "Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection" around here.

I tend not to vote for anyone that campaigns using telemarketing techniques, and have wondered if the more obnoxious ones are really coming from their opponents.

It would seem to be underhanded but effective!

Missed it by three seconds

At least one suburb of Portland will charge extra if trash is above the top line of their Kitchen Wastebasket on Steroids dumpster

But still under the closed frickin' dome-shaped lid!

According to Penn Jillette (and his Bullshit show,) He called BS on recycling. It's heavily subsidized and aluminum is the only thing that's really profitable, over mining more bauxite.

I don't remember where steel was, but I think it would be up there.

Interesting! I didn't know a radiometer needed a partial instead of hard vacuum to work properly. I bought the "light pressure theory" as well. It makes sense—solar wind couldn't get through a glass bulb.

It seems to me the effect of the LCDs interacting with the solar wind would be pretty small, but it's a neat idea since there are no moving parts.

Ya learn something new every day.

It's neat to see this phenomenon being used for a spacecraft.

It seems to me if they lose a few bottles during a storm, there will be plenty of spares as they cross the Pacific Trash Vortex.

I kinda miss those days--easy to learn and embedded 6502 machine code subroutines to make things move faster.

At least Steve Richie is in there, but yeah, the first name I looked for is the one in my signature.

From Firepower to Black Knight to Defender to Robotron... his creations kicked my ass many times, and I kept coming back for more.

Timelords have twelve regenerations, so counting from Hartnell, that would be thirteen incarnations. We still have two more to go, and I hope they don't happen within the same decade!

Naturally, anything is possible in the DW universe. It's been established that another regenerative cycle can be bestowed upon an individual, and Rassilon supposedly has unlimited regenerations.

At the very least, the thirteenth doctor should be quite interesting.

Where's Penn Jillette when we need him?

Sometimes at work I find myself trying to navigate with thumb buttons that aren't there, or worse, scraping the buttons thinking it has a wheel, but this is something else.

My first thought was: good for one-handed typing with multiple IM windows. There's a joke in there somewhere.

I always had this thought: if the solar system formed as a cloud that condensed into a disc, wouldn't it be like a giant gold pan?

It seems to me Mercury might be a rich source of heavy elements. Maybe Venus too, if it wasn't such a bitch to land on and survive for more than a few minutes.

I distinctly remember them saying a few years ago they didn't want to go public with the company so they'd retain complete control.

Maybe this is a good thing to grow the company, but will being beholden to the stockholders be a problem down the road?