Wow!

Low afterburner on takeoff in a low bypass turbofan. This afterburner is on the inner ring and is fed by the turbine exhaust. High temp, low oxygen. You end up with a lot of nitrogen oxide which pretty quickly becomes nitrogen dioxide and a yellow/brown color.

It was made by Volskwagen.

I ... think I like the way you think.

Damn, their marketing team is killing it. Killing. It.

A picture of the official.

Speed hole. For speed.

If you were that big and doing 45 knots, you’d have water coming out of your hole too.

Dear Entire Town of Dearborn, Kansas,

Yes, and Forward’s Starquake too—mostly really bad characters, except for the Cheela, but really cool ideas for truly alien biology!

All the ways? Ha!

Ah! The seemingly endless list of cognitive biases of the human brain continues!

Having read many of those articles myself, in addition to other sources, that was my conclusion too.

So I have a really weird question, prompted by Toothpetard’s pointer to the Harvard article about gold, that I’d need an astrophysicist to answer.

And the gold!

My feeling is that it will be a victim of not enough regular folks knowing the franchise, a story that is a little too dense, and people just being burnt out on CGI heavy fantasy after spending 9 hours of their lives watching The Hobbit.

Ah, people bitching about C minutiae. I’d wager most experienced programmers can barely understand the finer details, either (because nobody uses C unless they’re writing an OS or system-level software anymore).

Please tell me Caviar Amsterdam is a stage name.

You know what? NO. As an adult, Xmas presents mostly suck. As an adult, Thanksgiving kind of sucks because you can’t pig out anymore without guilt (and maybe also heartburn and what have you). As an adult Halloween sucks because you don’t get to go get a bag of free candy like you used to, and if you do, it’s the same…

Two things i wanted from the second Obama term: close Guantanamo, and what ought to be trivial by comparison, end Daylight Saving Time. still waiting