So that makes Fred Rodgers bad ass too. Thieves took his car and then returned with a note reading “if we had known it was yours, we would have never taken it.”

David Niven

Our water delivery infrastructure has a lot of lead in it.

And it was all hydro-powered. When energy was expensive and hard to produce, our efficient fore-fathers made great use of waterfalls and rapids. If they had known about fish-ladders back then, they would have been incredibly green.

Not sure how big the Giga-plant will be when finished, but sounds a lot like most paper converting mills in North America. I worked at our local Kimberly-Clark plant in Tulsa. It is 1.7 million square feet of low-humidity, cooled manufacturing space for the converting of pulp wood and fiber into paper for converting…

While not under one roof, it’s interesting to note for perspective that there is still 5 million square feet of mill space remaining in the Lowell National Historical Park. And that doesn’t count the buildings that are gone, or that aren’t part of the national park complex itself. The total space was on the same order…

On average, how often do the questions you receive, per day, make you sigh deeply, stare out a window, and meditate on whether or not there is any hope for the American education system / common sense / future of the human species?

... Batman... ?

Great novel. Would read again.

I'm not sure that's the case. Intuitively (and I think maybe empirically, but I can't remember for sure whether the data supports this), the risk of fatality should correlate more closely with number of trips than miles driven.

"The Advent on Channel 12" by Cyril Kornbluth - "Whereat a great and far-off voice was heard, saying, Poop-poop-poopy, and it was even so; and the days of Poopy Panda were long in the land."

Alien Invasion shoots right up to number 1 if... it's done a la The Screwfly Solution style.

Libertarian Utopia would be the worst, although plague of poisonous toads is a close second. Ayn Rand can suck it.

When I heard about Costco dumping 25 tons of peanutbutter in a New Mexico landfill, I couldn't help but think it'd be abso-fucking-lutely hilarious if it was in this one. (Sadly it wasn't.) You know, just to really fuck with future archaeologists. I mean, really? Can you imagine? They hit some kind of massive…

This is just a front for mining all the sweet gold that are on those carts. Gold is going for a pretty penny now, and back in the day, there were actually crime rings that dealt in microchips solely for the gold content. The gold content in past electronics is staggering.

I hate to quibble, but - maybe there should be links for non-Amazon online booksellers as well. Just to play fair.

Yeah, I think there was definitely a demographic narrowing circa 1985-1990 in response to the dominance of the direct market over what had been until recently the traditional retail outlets for comics (newsstands, convenience stores, supermarkets, etc.). A lot of this was to the good, because it created the audiences…

Looking at these pix, I'm struck by how much modern comics illustration is influenced by advertising. I get the feeling a lot of these guys must have had some sort of primal experience looking at their older brother's Budweiser poster circa 1995 or so, hence the emphasis on butt floss costumes and supine positions. …