I don't even know why you make the effort; the scotch death of the universe is inevitable.

Exactly! For a non-moving computer, game system, etc., why use wireless? Too many issues with signal quality for it to be worthwhile if you're not using a cordless device in the first place.

Except the honeybees would love it

Depends how you define "nice". I am against wireless unless I actually need it (maybe like using a laptop on the couch). Aside from that, if you have a station where you work, a CAT 5 cable is rock-solid. For the most part if you are connected at 100 Mbit/s on a common LAN, you can expect some decent network performance within that LAN. Connect with a 54 Mbit/s wireless connection and then you are at mercy to signal strength, noise, other people on your channel, dropped connections, etc.

Myths, old wives tales, movie physics, or just strange experiments. Part of the fun is in the building, and sometimes part of the fun is packing what you've built full of high explosives. Sounds like a good recipe to me, and much more entertaining than most of the drivel on TV.

depends how hungry you are

Yet you use a computer and perform frivolous activities like browse internet comments. I can't think of a more pointless use of cancer-causing electricity and throw-away goods.

A few weeks ago I was looking to see if anyone was trying what you say! It's a very interesting concept.

Statistics are good, but I think a course on critical thinking should be mandatory to become an adult (get your voting privileges). If you can't tell the difference between a valid argument and a straw man fallacy or an ad hominem fallacy, then you have no right in voting. I doubt any politician would let this sort of thing happen, though.

Yeah, and let's make the world use the United States customary units for science because it "got them to the moon." Quick, how many BTUs is the silicon bandgap? How many BTUs does a photon with a wavelength of 1/36000" have? US customary units are a joke. ;)

and a note that says "get off my lawn"

I have something similar to what you want! I just upgraded my old sharp to the next model: EL w516. It uses a fairly decent-size display with square pixels (no seven segment BS), displays proper fractions (if you want), shows pi properly, has a "natural" equation setup (shows equation at top, solution on bottom), has an ANS function, mappable equations, four 4x4 (maximum size) matrices, does determinants, shows proper imaginary numbers, a menu of physical constants (with greek letters and shows units), and all your other "vanilla" scientific calculator stuff. It's not quite multi-line, but it does have a memory (pressing up) and 8 slots for number storage (A,B,C,D,E,F,X,Y), accessed by STO+var or RCL+var.

Physics makes me happy. Also, I found that good manual math skills and a good scientific calculator is usually very suitable up to the point where you need some high-powered computer programs to do your dirty work (and definitely not a graphing calculator).

For your bag calculator, you should check out the sharp EL-W516. It seriously makes me happy. It properly shows fractions (or you can force decimals if you want), can solve up to a 4x4 matrix determinant (memory for 4 4x4 matrices, I believe), has a CNST menu with physical constants (and their units!), answer memory, proper complex number mode, and a ton of other neat nerd-pleasers (like I said, makes me happy). It is a massive change from the previous generation from sharp.

Totally agree, except I don't use a slide rule (just a plain scientific calculator). Understanding the math is much more important than crunching the numbers. Our profs mentioned this on many occasions, saying something to the extent of "don't just substitute the numbers in and do it on your calculator. Solve it for variables first; substitute at the end."