> Making food is much the same; it is fun, and has enjoyable results.

Two, two, two lies in one!

Making food is work. That's why people get paid to do it. Cooking for yourself is messy, incredibly slow, incredibly inefficient, and expensive, and honestly, I've never managed to make something that I couldn't buy cheaper and better at a restaurant. (I've been cooking for, oh, 30 years?)

I hate it. It's a waste of time and money, and since there are people that do it so much better and seem to be deluded enough to enjoy it, I don't do it any more.

Not a Z80, but a 68000: I just retrieved the system I learned unix on, a Plexus. Have to fix some mouse-chewed cables and re-assemble it, but it should be fun. Came with the Rainbow 100 that was used as a terminal, too.

I have both an odyssey and one of those electromechanical pong games, both in working order.

They can fly to another continent, yes, but after they bomb it, there aren't going to be allowed to land there. They have to fly back, too.

I like watches, especially interestingly odd ones, and I have quite a few, but I've quite wearing one for the same reasons, I just don't need one.

Surprised the heck out of me.

The design he's standing under won't have anywhere near the tip speed of the major bird killers.

That's a totally normal weekend if you live anywhere rural or spread out at all. It's 20 miles to the nearest home depot-ish thing.

Yes. I've seen both.

The shooting sports are not dangerous at all, considering injuries per participant, compared to most other sports. Hunting injuries do skew these results somewhat, but that's because most hunters are only occasional and casual shooters. Serious shooters are extremely safe.

A reasonable tester (not a certifier, but a good tester) is only about $1K or so. It's easy to make cables that pass 1 GB testing with basic hand tools. The problem is the time it takes, no matter how fast you are. For patch panels, especially, where you need hundreds of cables all basically the same length, just buy them.

We still test every cable before it goes in, even the store-bought ones.