I mean, a lot of problems could be solved with giant lasers.

I mean, it’s bad, but actually not as bad as I was expecting.

Nice collection. I think the Allante maybe doesn’t get much respect these days, but I always thought it was a good-looking car.

It’s kind of funny you have the Neon and apparently a Regal. I also have a Neon and a Regal. Twins! :D You don’t also have a Ford Fusion or any 80's Dodges, by any chance?

There are some factory scissor-type jacks that are designed to go on the pinch weld. If I remember correctly you have a (nice!) 1st-gen Neon. The factory jack in the 2nd-gen Neon, at least, is designed to go in the notched and reinforced areas of the pinch welds. There are better places on the Neon if you have a…

I really like my hard anodized pans (I have Circulon). They’re a good all-around compromise in terms of cost, durability, heft without too much weight, and just general usefulness to us who are not pros but like to cook.

Capitalism! It’s often said that the principles of competition force businesses to offer products at the lowest price the market will bear. But in truth that’s a backwards way of looking at what it really does. Instead it guarantees prices and profits as high as the market will bear. A business will always charge as…

“Encherining”?

This is a really interesting topic for me. My dad was a chemist, and he worked in a veterinary pathology lab for 32 years. He now has some increasingly bad dementia and other issues, and I’ve found it impossible not to wonder if he was exposed to something in all those years that has caused or at least exacerbated it.…

Heh, yeah I commented on that one back then, too. I love science, but there’s some flawed science, unfortunately.

Very little plastic comes off a plastic cutting board in reality. I’ve been using a couple of them for about 25 years, and they’re scratched but not noticeably worn any thinner.

I’ve got all these 80's hair metal cassette tapes, and I can’t find a single new vehicle with a cassette player!

No, VMWare-based. It was the vCenter server, I think. (This isn’t my area of expertise, so will be our network admin working on it.)

I already find a Double Whopper Jr. to be one of my favorite fast-food burgers. It’s got just the right ratio of ingredients.

A completely believable scenario. At my company we somehow crashed and corrupted our virtual server cluster controller yesterday during a failed update. Fortunately all the VMs are still running, but we have to rebuild the controller tonight.

In my neck of the woods, Denny’s, Hardee’s, and a truck stop are the only places within a 50 mile radius that are open 24 hours. The local Denny’s isn’t bad, at least at lunchtime, which is the only time I’ve been there. I wish they still had waffles, though. They had the best waffles in town. There are a couple of…

It seems surprisingly hard to search for this: what is that part made of? It looks like some kind of plastic composite with an aluminum skin?

I sometimes make up a quick small batch of “Chex” mix as a snack, regardless of whether I have any actual Chex in the house. Just about anything crispy works—CheezIts, Cheerios, pita chips, pretzels, oyster crackers, any kind of nuts. Melt a tablespoon of butter, mix it with some Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder,…

I only have two examples personally. I thought the original Jurassic Park was better than the book, which I read before seeing the movie. Also the Hunger Games movies were mostly better than the books, maybe because they were able to show us things from perspectives other than first-person Katniss.

I didn’t know the 4 train went to Jaglan Beta.