Good point! When I started searching for that BBC article I couldn't remember if it was about warming up or stretching. Then when I found it, my circuits were irrevocably locked!

I get brain freeze quite easily, but what was much worse was a few years ago I started getting bouts of very similar pain all the time! At its worst point I was getting the pain every 5 mins or so (on average) that would last 5-10 seconds.

I've had one of these for a while as rear speakers in my apartment just weren't working. While it sounds pretty good, I couldn't detect any surround sound effect.

According to this other research, it doesn't reduce injuries from running.

Er, I wasn't worked up. My post was tongue-in-cheek.

This isn't completely unknown in the UK. I've heard it several times.

I hate her and her ridiculous, supposedly cutesy way of talking!

As Mrorange mentioned the growing shortage of Helium is an issue, as is the availability of helium in remote places.

Yes, that is a problem. A disproportionate amount of money gets spent on woman's health issues.

Who knew the "nosecone" was one word?

I'm going to Shanghai the week after next. If they build it as quickly as some of the buildings they've put up in China recently (e.g., 6-story building in 24 hours, 10-story building in 48 hours), it'll be ready for my stay!

I think it's sad that we live in a society that considers it necessary to cover the genitals of babies.

Incandescent bulbs will only last 100 years if you run them at a very, very low power level (barely glowing) and never switch them off.

Holly crap! I don't even light sweet things very much and yet I want this!

And the US evangelicals would have referred to him as a socialist entitlement hippy (had they been around then).

It might be fixable in firmware. If the LCD backlight were momentarily pulsed off whenever a meter reading is taken, there would be no interference.

Actually when I first wrote that post, I didn't realize that Jesus was the Greek version of Joshua, and I was taking this team's report literally. I then edited my post after finding out that Jesus and Joshua were different language versions of the same name.

Not obviously! They say it say "Jesus".