You are correct.

Sometimes, one sees something on the interwebz so profoundly incorrect that one has to respond to correct it, even knowing the futility of such an effort. This is one of those times. I'm a former Tomcat RIO with 260 carrier landings, 100 of them at night.

It's not always about fuel.

Jets that fly from the sea need to practice bombing things, and those things are almost always on land. Flying to bomb the land from the sea involves overflying coasts, which often contain reefs and marshes and beaches. When things go wrong on those hops, jets jettison their bombs and/or drop tanks to improve their…

They have to use BAC, because they can't use a standardized test for impairment. It would be a very simple thing to say, "You can't drive a car if your reaction time averages over, say, 500 milliseconds." (See this test, for example: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reaction…)

I actually do this with everything, not just chargers. As I accomplish tasks around the house, I will make a "car key mountain" that stages all the stuff I can't forget to take with me, piled on top of my keys.

Agreed. If a free T-shirt shows up at a net cost less than the island tailor can produce one like it, then the island tailor is performing unnecessary labor, and his time could be better spent on some other task that can't be supplanted by a container full of practically free shirts.

Instead of putting your chargers on the floor where you'll step on them, just put your car keys on top of the charger, or put the cord through your key ring. No way to leave without noticing the charger.

The +3-8 rule is a different way of saying that most crashes happen during or near takeoff and landing. No big secret, there; adding a lot of energy to a stationary object to make it fly and removing energy from it to make it stationary again are both the most difficult tasks in aviation.

I remember coin operated TVs in airports in the 70s.

That appeared to be a textbook compressor stall, the jet engine equivalent of a car's backfire. Airflow is disrupted to the motor, fuel continues to be delivered, and when airflow is reestablished, the resultant explosion escapes both through the back of the motor but also forwards through the compression section.

I thought I had selected the right TV, on paper, until I discovered it was sold locally at a big box store and went to see it, in person. The picture was fine, but its ability to handle motion (big, fast moving football players pixelated and golf balls blurred, badly). Only by seeing it side-by-side with other TVs…

Yes. Who really needs all of those "high capacity" jump drives? Civilians possessing them is just an invitation to mass data-stealing rampages. If banning them saves the files of just one child...

Two features I hope Netflix includes with this upgrade:

*current* definition.

I'll hold off judgement until we figure out what causes gravity. When we learn that, perhaps we can apply it to light coming out of a strong laser pointer... Voila, Light Sabre.

Don't forget the venerable Opti-Grab.

I also blame the continuous nature of the game. 90 minutes with one break is very different than the stop and go nature of football and baseball. Basketball has lots of time outs and clock stoppages, and, even if you miss a couple of baskets, chances are they are not game-deciding.

You're right about the parity. Golf: women and men, especially playing from different tee boxes, look a lot alike to the average spectator. Same with tennis, and same, to a degree, with soccer, although as one pretty familiar with that sport, the women's games lack the occasional 1/3rd-field, on-a-rope shots on goal…

You seem awfully certain that a) he was OK with the kiss, and b) that she was NOT OK with the ass grab. That's all, folks.