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Comment the, er, fallout from this (Score 4, Funny) 49

Oh great, now we're going to be overwhelmed with Japanese tourists taking pictures of radioactive things!

Shot 1: Dad and the kids smiling at camera and glowing in dark.

Shot 2: Look! Our Toyota doesn't need headlights!

Shot 3. Mr. Fujimoto and his radioactive shoes!

Shot 4. Godzilla. No, really, Godzilla. Run!

Comment Bonus action (Score 1) 166

Researchers celebrated by having their fillings restored after a painful emergency.

In other news, superhero Dr. Magnet explained to the press that the large bulge in his trunks was merely because he'd flown too close to Los Alamos. His sidekick Alnico Girl shook her head and said "Don't believe a word that horny bastard says."

Comment Saul Zaentz's lack of character (Score 4, Informative) 169

I'll mince no words: Saul Zaentz is and always has been an ahole. He only owns the rights to the film version of the book, he does not own the book. He ripped off Credence Clearwater's John Fogerty long ago, and then had the audacity to sue Fogerty for hundreds of millions, claiming John did not have the right to use his own riffs. He lost the suit but remained a complete dick. This man is the epitomy of wrong.

Comment Re:and then there's his next project (Score 1) 481

Dear Michael;

I call it "TransOzinators". Script is ready to go. Have your girl call my girl and let's take a meeting. I see box office boffo here. I already have a treatment for the sequel ready. "Revenge of WW". Lots of explosions and product placements. Also, my girlfriend would make a perfect replacement for Meg.

Sincerely,

W. S. Shakespeare, Esq.

Comment and then there's his next project (Score 5, Funny) 481

Next up, Bay takes on Wizard of Oz remake:

"Flying monkeys with bombs. Lots of bombs. Wicked witch with machine gun on broom! Megan as Dorothy! Toto upgraded to pit bull. Shia LeBoeuf will ace it as the Tin Man with laser-eyeballs and missile-firing butthatch! Cowardly Lion now a Mexican political-asylum refugee who knows how to fight! The Straw Man now the Token Black Gay Teenage Computer Wizard in a wheelchair. With glasses. And braces. Eats HotPockets and Pepsi and Pringles while racing against time.

Old plot bad, new plot good. Secret Oz government lab accidently released virus that mutates Munchkins into slobbering zombie vampires. Only Dorothy can save them because her blood has radical new antibodies. Witch nearly kills her, but sex with the Tin Man revives her. New totally unexpected ending not involving explosions!"

Comment How do they handle nav? (Score 1) 294

I've always wondered how the tunnel borers track position precisely when they are underground. GPS depends on adequate reception of satellite signals, which you do NOT get underground. Inertial navigation systems? But those usually need to be refreshed from calibration sources.

I've concluded it's all done by reference to gnomes.

Comment three logs I keep, and more (Score 1) 139

I do self-track certain things that are very useful. I keep two logs: 1) concepts log 2) information flow log, and one moderate sized list.

The concepts log records interesting or useful concepts as I encounter then, so I do not have the situation of sitting there wondering where was that discussion of how to do XYZ I'd read six months ago.

The information flow log is a raw stream of ideas and information locations (sites, books, articles)

As a side matter, I keep a list of things I do not know but need to learn. Richard Feynman kept one and it helped him spot holes in his models or domain knowledge.

There's a fourth area where I keep things, and that is a series of 'Library' drives with a large number of directories, one for each area of learning I track, and I copy material into it when I run across it. Thus I can immediately find where I have information on, for example, certain topics in AI, physics, tax law, etc. There is one drive for science, one for technology, one for humanities and more. I use these daily to find things I might have run across years ago.

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