At a wonderful bed-and-breakfast a kid at the front desk asked if he could get me anything before he left for the night. It was hot and muggy and I asked if I could have some ice to make iced tea. He brought me 3 sad little melting pucks on a China dish. He was proactive about it the next night, and that gave me a…

Absolutely do this! But some thieves are forgers too.

We live in the Matrix. Everybody had the same third grade teacher. ;)

Did you spin around as you got stung? That’s what I reflexively did.

As drLouie below notes, it’s painful but survivable.

Thank you. It is a wonderful thing to visualize, and had you not posted it, I would have never had the visual in my head.

How do you know this? Why would that not make it onto Family Guy? 

That may have been some time ago. I just talked with a 911 dispatcher and they do not have any lookup system for that. They could call the phone company and they maybe able to find that information and call dispatch back, but that could take a long time. Likely they would find a person lost this way by pinging out…

It’s more like they make the plates smaller, stop refilling chafing dishes, reduce the quality of the food and then finally ask you to leave.

Correction: Change caption of second drone photo to match article. It should be TU-143 (a parachute recovered Tupolev drone) as noted in the article, not TU-134 which is a jet built by the same company. Both are outdated these days.

Proselytism is one of the things my parents cared little for. One perspective is that it only spreads hate, fear and misinformation. My father was raised in a very religious household. I watched him go quote for quote, verse for verse, with some people that came to our door to convert us. They refused to leave at…

Part of the storyline in Kult the Heretic was the idea the written knowledge was bad. Beyond being a grind, it was fun game with a great mechanic, that of shifting into the spirt world. It was also centered around a culture that was atheist, and the main character’s job is to find religious heretics (those with…

I get what you are saying, but what exactly makes a camera, or any tool, serious? Cost? Quality of image? Use? Does it has to be the peak of technology at the time it was released? Perhaps a serious camera can be used to earn a living. Is it training? Is it intent?

It also works with mason jars if one has the adapters. Note if you use it on the smaller diameter jars, it works best if one inverts a lid and places it on top of properly oriented lid. Long and short, the small jar adapter is worth it, but it was hit or miss at to it working until I figured this out. Part of the…

It also works with mason jars if one has the adapters. Note if you use it on the smaller diameter jars, it works…

I talk to a federal attorney as a kid at one of those, “teens run a mock parallel government for a week”. His take was that the pardons and commutations were political, but often they were tools for ending legal thorns that nobody in power wants to deal with. He also explained the difference between letter of the…

I’m betting it will be a full house.

Unless you want to have a bag that doesn’t look like it’s carrying an expensive camera or has features that most camera bags don’t have.

I have always found this picture useful. I have long wanted to silk-screen it on fabric to use. (Originally I saw it on Lifehacker 10+ years ago, or something similar looking.)

I am going out on a limb here, and noting there is another side to the device that the blanket wouldn’t be covering.

from Robot Chicken (NSFW)