I guess these commemorate their brief flirtation with Peruvian Flying Pike flavored noodles (Middleman reference for the three people out there who saw that show).

I've been kicking myself for not buying the 64GB version when the MS store had it on sale for $299 on Black Friday weekend... Though I do hear that early versions had quality control issues.

"Sir! You are my personal hero, sir!"

Their Wonder can be splitting the beer atom.

The gender-bent Thorin is part of a larger set:

I've tried that a few times, and it was a bit too much like Campbell's tomato soup. Seriously, I had a grilled cheese with it and thought it was great.

I keep a double batch of this sauce in the fridge for use on pasta or chicken. Great stuff, and easy to make (make sure to double the roasting time if you do a double batch - when the liquid is almost entirely gone, it's ready to take out).

On a train platform in Kobe, I once saw a little old lady carrying a bag emblazoned with a Frosted Flakes box cover altered to read "Frosted Flakes of Poon." So... yeah.

Amiga, 1992.

Yeesh, no kidding. Softboxes fit OVER the lights, they aren't lights themselves. And trying to do any light modification with cheap halogen work lights - which burn hotter than a thousand suns - is a recipe for flaming disaster. I guess you don't have to do research or think things through when you're wearing a head…

"This just in, James May has been spotted running in public to Heathrow to board a flight to Melbourne. Eyewitnesses to this rare event say that he may have had an erection."

I had a bunch of of old machines lying around, but I eventually gutted most of them and used the parts to create what would have been a kick-ass system in 2000. Dual P2 400's, 32MB EDO RAM, Creative DVD-RAM and hardware decoder board, Voodoo 1 3D card, Matrox Rainbow Runner capture board, all running under Windows…

Whoa, an SGI guy here. Check out the O2 box on the left and them Indigos... Nifty.

A 10" Asus T100 is $350 (32GB) or $400 (64GB) and comes with full Windows 8, full Office 2013, gets 11 hours of battery life, and has a Bay Trail processor that isn't horrible. It gets dinged in reviews for not having a full HD screen, but they've all been shocked at how usable it is. I've even seen a video of it…

I found an Olympus E-PM1 M4/3 kit on clearance at Sam's Club a while ago for $165, and a Nikon D5100 kit for $350 at a Target. Been a crazy year for camera temptation. I've used the E-PM1 more, even though the lack of manual controls and slippy no-grip design is kind of irritating. Portable as heck, and I've taken…

Dang, I bought two of those Pioneer A1's last week for $50 each. (Note that they ONLY work on wireless B and G, not N. If you don't have a dual-radio router, it'll tank your wireless network's speed. And pray that your router has a WPS simple setup button, because Pioneer's instructions are laughably awful.) I wonder…

And remember, you use a sautee pan to braise, but you sautee in a skillet.

GreenManGaming will never get another dime of my money. Their customer support is so dysfunctional it's practically malevolent, and it's clear that they have no interest in fixing it. Keys never arrive, keys already registered by someone else, keys bought as part of a pre-order finally received a week after game…

I didn't say I subscribed to it. There are tea drinkers who say the same thing about paper tea bags.

I didn't say I subscribed to it. There are tea drinkers who say the same thing about paper tea bags.

Um, they got that impression because you don't mention your own training anywhere in the article above. Saying that you ran it "as a bandit" followed by descriptions of the gnarly aftermath give the rather distinct impression that you jumped right into it. Your readers won't know that you had been running 20+ miles…