Don't feel bad. I didn't realize the Air Force had planes. Then again, I was in the Navy.

It's his diminutive name, which is common in Russia. Not only do they have diminutive names, but also a diminutive form of speech for children. It's similar to how some languages have a masculine and feminine form of speech. So, when they say it's short for this or that, that is what they really mean. Sometimes…

After 26 years, I still have to go with my wife's cooking.

I don't know, they look more like polyps, to me.

True, but it's difficult to imagine a truly intelligent race without some level of shared cooperation. Perhaps this is merely a human bias, and I need to stop anthropomorphising other creatures.

Yeah, the feeling of ribs cracking under your hands is always a creepy feeling. As an American Heart Association CPR instructor, I'm going to use this video at my next class coming up in a week. I can't wait to start the class with this video and see the reaction.

When I write, I prefer to listen to classical music. No, not Led Zeppelin. Actual classical music.

These ships are absolutely amazing! When I was in Bahrain during Desert Shield / Storm, the Mercy was in port for a time. Although I had spent 6 years in the Navy, I'd never been stationed on a ship before, and had only even visited a (much smaller) ship once as a tourist in San Diego while on active duty. As a…

Ahhh, the young have so much to learn when it comes to classic movie references...

What I really don't understand about them is how they can be so intelligent, yet live such solitary lives. Look at dolphins. They are intelligent, yet live in cooperative groups. I would think a cooperative group would make a species more intelligent because the young would have the ability to learn from adults. …

Jolly good! Perhaps that's why I never drink coffee but fuel myself with plenty of tea. I'm not British, but nearly all my ancestors were from the UK.

With that parasite in the way on the Xray, I can't visualize the odontoid. Without that, I can't clear this patient for a C-Spine injury. Let's remove that parasite and re-do that open mouth waters view one more time. ASAP! I need a wet reading on this film!!!

I've been saying this for a while now, but the iPhone reminds me of the early days of Apple vs. Windows. If you think about it, the situation is somewhat similar. Apple controlled every aspect of their hardware and software business, while Windows created an operating system and PC's were created by anyone and…

Zero, none, nada, zilch! I absolutely detest any icons on my computer home screen. I do keep my most used programs at hand on the quick launch bar, but that's all. Most of the time I don't even have a picture on the desktop. As boring as it sounds, I keep my desktop color set to #000000.

So, any chance of you and Dr. Brian Greene getting in an octagon and fighting it out?

I thought iOS was supposed to be kid/family friendly? What a joke? With Android, I can lock down any app I want any time I want. The very idea that I can't do that with iOS blows my mind and is yet one more strike against iOS. While I have many iOS devices, for the life of me I can't figure out why people think…

I can't see how this isn't considered art. It's clearly artistic in nature. I would also classify this as a parody, which has certain legal protections when it comes to using things like the police department logo. Where this might become illegal is the manner in which he places the art, and not the art itself. If…

Is there a way to do this on iOS without jailbreaking? For instance, we have a folder on my wife's iPad for movies. We have Netflix, our cable company's streaming app, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, Cinemax, and perhaps a couple more. I don't want my 9 and 10 year old boys being tempted to watch G String Diva Sluts on HBO…

I live in a city on the outskirts of a larger metropolitan area. My particular city population is around 60k people, to give you a rough estimate of size. Most of the time, if I'm motoring around town, I have google maps in satellite mode and I periodically look at the street names I'm not only on, but street names…

Edgar Rice Burroughs started the first Tarzan and John Carter of Mars novels in this fashion. They were written in such a way that they didn't start out like a work of fiction, but rather an historical event. Yes, the effect is to create a very intimate connection with the reader almost instantaneously. While I…