It is looking that way. Isn't it. Well, Schezuan wlll do. Thick and slurpy spicy noodle dishes are fabulous. Speaking of which, time for lunch! Let's see what I have in the kitchen...

So when I have my Moon vacation I can expect a lot of Tex-Mex and Thai, some Indian and spicy Schezuan? I'm in. sign me up! Let's light this candle and get up there! Space is the place!

But...if it is too big to count as a planet, then it has to be so massive it would collapse into itself, creating fusion and thus it would be...a star! Ahhhhh! Rogue star on a collision course for Earth! Don't tell SyFy!

Refrigerating eggs in the store might be a north American thing. They sit on a shelf at room temperature in England, and I think that's what it was in Sweden, too. I wonder if it's the production of the eggs that has someing to do with it. More research needed. :)

Too bad there's no information on solar dehydrators. Though I am sure I can find that somewhere. Stockpile salt and mesh racks, make jerky from many things. :)

The fresher they are, the better for frying and scrambling they will be. When they are not quite as fresh, boiling in the shell works really well. When off, well, save for use as toxic ammunition. :)

I'm going to interpret that sentence as a statement that you don't enjoy the show. Which is fine, since life would be boring if we all liked the exact same things. :)

yes, this is a real version of Sheldon Cooper. I wonder if that's what the writers do, scour the real world for these interesting child prodigies and then incorporate everything in the character so we can laugh and think "built his own cat scanner, reactor, this and that, right how silly." Then we find out that it's…

normally I steer clear of these debates but I'll wade in, since I know a bit about it all.

No turning the armor into a faraday suit! That would be cheating.

Make the ball the taser and take the zap out of the hands of the players, and I'll think UTB is great. Gyro controlled computer, every time you grab the ball it picks a random time before zapping, and you never know when.

I spend a lot of time trying to convince kids that electricity is not a toy, not something to play with. Now a bunch of morons want a league where they turn electricity into something to play with. Look, if we want a new, aggressive sport let's support jousting. A game where people try and shock enough other in…

Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame series is my choice. College kids swept into a fantasy world finally make home but decide to go back and make a difference. Fighting slavery, corruption, dealing with adult issues like rape, and the sacrifices people make for the sake of what is right, no matter the cost.

Jacob's ladder, so cool. I had the good fortune to use a small one of these for an outdoor safety display. It was fun and we set fire to string, pine branches, sticks, hot dogs...I think the point that people should not mess around with electricity was quite obvious. Safety first!

I'm not a great archer but I enjoy it all the same. but now that I've seen this, well, I might as well be throwing rocks compared to the speed she has. Accurate enough. I mean so long as she can hit an attacker in the knee, his adventuring days will be over and she'll have won the battle! :)

Ah yes, right. I remember now, especially the head crab zombie. Stupid head tabs, always made me jump! Now to see a fantasy version, but what console or PC can handle a hundred rampaging baby spiders? Hrm.

Have not played dead space 2 but now I want to, and at the same time, maybe I don't unless there's a flame thrower in there. Which might just mean flaming baby spiders swarming me and burning me. Plasma cutter? Big stomping foot? ;)

Now that should inspire someone to build an interesting video game boss. Finally, I killed the giant spider queen blocking the gate into the depths of the Dark Duke's castle! Wait, what's that- @#!!? Thousands of baby spiders! AHHHH! Swarmed and pwned. Always remember, kill it with fire! Unless it's a fire elemental.

There are enough crows in my neighbourhood to let me try this, though not so many that they'd kill me and consume my flesh. I might start with cat treats come the spring... :)

Before seeing if I need a Canadian license maybe I should think about how a crow would get along with my Forest cat. Hrm. Might get loud if they fight over food. But I like the idea of finding a baby and feeding it. It can live outside, won't require a license but it can still spy on the neighbourhood for me.…