There's a joke here somewhere. If I weren't so stoned...

is unimpressed.

When it comes to patent trolls, you have not only to get their planes, but also target their parachutes. Total war.

And this why we can't have nice things. Thanks a lot!

working together. There's a word for that.

And yet, if the car is in gear *while* someone rear ends you, it can really fuck up your transmission. Not to mention that leaving the clutch pressed in too much can cause extra (unnecessary) wear to that part. If it's in neutral, I can let the clutch out.

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

A roommate of mine in college had a religious poster stuck to the wall with yellow sticky tack. When it inevitably fell to the floor, he looked at where the picture had been, and said: "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ, Satan." Yeah, it was Satan, not that unreliable sticky tack he used. Now, if it had crumpled itself up and flung over to the trash can...

I prefer Tablone.

The gravity field spikes hard there.

Is the fastest spinning object, man-made or otherwise? Looking for some perspective on this.

Came here for that, left satisfied.

I see 2020 as the year after we start hunting Replicants. (Where's my flying car, dammit?)

And Congress, the RNC, EFF, ACLU, NORML, AARP, your local branch of the FFA, the hippy dippy weatherman, etc. But never Robin Williams, not really sure why. (Maybe because many people have already seen him naked, not willing to risk it again.)

"FORCE, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil and bruise itself. It is destruction and ruin. It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone;--not growth and progress. It is Polyphemus blinded, striking at random, and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by the impetus of his own blows." -- The Twelve-inch Rule and the Common Gavel, "Morals and Dogma"

Was not aware of this analogy. Thanks for the reference.