I also grew up poor as a military brat, and I have fond memories of Mom going to the commissary and buying ten-pound cans of military-generic Spam to put meat in our diets. I’d have spam&cheese sammiches for lunch, and the family would have macaroni, spam and ketchup casserole for dinner. Sometimes, we’d do potatoes &…

I’d like to see if vantablack would increase the efficiency of the older style hot air solar collectors. It seems to me that vantablack, exposed to the sun, could convert a LOT of light to heat.

It’s in a lake, not a river. Simple enough to run a sewage line back to the shore, if you’ve got enough money.

Dibs on his island!!

The older **I** get, the harder it is to get out of the house and walk to a restaurant. Having someone who can deliver to a person who’s facing the unwelcome prospect of eventually becoming a shut-in or stuck in a nursing home is a bright spark in a dismal universe.

It’s one of those things that Congress isn’t happy about remembering or talking about, and it’s between that and FDR’s record number of terms that clarifications were made to the chain of succession, Presidential term limits and other unanticipated holes in our Constitution. Our Founding Fathers expected that only…

Hell, my town doesn’t even HAVE a traffic light, and most of the few stop signs we do have are near a state highway that sees a great deal of truck traffic, and therefore could have collisions if people weren’t reminded to stop and look both ways for that 18-wheeler that doesn’t want to have to slow down for a…

What if he really did? I mean, Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke in October of 1919, and his wife Edith became the de facto President of the United States for the remainder of his term, basically stalling any attempt to remove him from office and replace him with the Vice-President.

Maybe we can Tweet the Afterlife and request an exchange? Get Bourdain back?

But have you used them to carry on... other tins?! ;)

Short little bald grey-skinned genderless creatures from another planet, here to probe...

Not to be all tolling, but If you were a billionaire what weird stuff would you have in your Manhattan mansion?

LAWYER: Well, it could be statutory rape ...

I can’t help but think of aliens every time someone uses the term “Greys.” I mean, I get what they’re referring to, but still...

Unless, of course, Mr. Pervert Epstein was smart enough to keep some video evidence stored somewhere off site.

You’d be surprised. I live out in rural farm country in Colorado, where a theater is a good half-hour drive. The one theater we do have (and yes, it’s 19 miles away from me) has 3-D and is usually packed whenever any 3-D film is shown.

Because older people are scared enough to vote. I realize that quoting Cosby isn’t the thing to do anymore, but one of his jokes applies, the joke about his parents and his children - specifically, his children getting spoiled by the grandparents, the children going “But you tole’ us your mom and dad were mean!”

He was considered “edgy” for a member of the Silent Generation. The generation that were in their teens and twenties in the 1950's. The only generation that was smaller in numbers than the generation that came before it. As a result, they tried and kind of flopped at being innovative/edgy/new.

60 FPS makes it easier to go back and turn it into 3d OR eliminate motion blur. Can’t do both at the same time unless you go to 120 FPS

Not always. I have a nice LG that I bought from MicroCenter, and it’s 1080P while only being 24 inches. (I live in a small cottage, anything larger wouldn’t even fit.)