Intimidation is a large part of why riot officers gear up to such a degree. If you make it look like an attack on the officer would be totally ineffective you decrease the chance for such an attack to even occur. High-tech or intimidating clothing/weapons/vehicles with large numbers of officers is a great deterrent in…

I'd prefer a mini-colander to sift out all the cereal/marshmallow dust that pours out with the last bits of cereal.

He called the shit poop!

Dear ________

Where are my other eight?!!

I stand corrected then. I guess all the testimonials I'd heard leaned towards their more exotic stuff like swords and battle axes and throwing spears and what-have-you. Or to the extreme low-end "you get what you pay for" stuff.

If it works, it works. I haven't been able to justify buying a machete yet but a kukri is definitely a "someday" purchase.

I have one of their tanto blades and it has performed dutifully. It has always done the jobs I've needed it for.

I won't say anything about my Lacie, lest it betray me after these years.

My hometown loves UPS.

As a motorcyclist that was nearly trapped underneath someone's truck (she was backing out of a parking spot without looking) I can tell you that it's a terrifying prospect. The only reason she didn't just back right over me was because my hand twisted the throttle to the max as I was falling over and the noise stopped…

Great jumping Jehosaphat! What did you do to your apostrophe, man?

I enjoy having both. Before I had my iMac I would use a Magic Mouse and the trackpad interchangeably. Each had a situation where one was easier to use than the other.

All of these sound like Sims characters talking.

I too would like to request an invite, though I have nothing to offer in return other than e-thanks (which is genuine gratitude that I push through the intertubes via force of will).

We never even really used it for anything. Once a semester he'd take us out to the parking lot and put a little in an old can and put the can on a ring stand then light it up. I think it was mostly just a "hey look! Science!" kind of thing but I wasn't complaining.

Well, I was one of the three people that made up my high school physics class so the teacher told us to just clean the lab every day and he'd give us good grades. He taught Chem II while we were in the lab playing laser tag in the dark. They had a startlingly large amount of thermite so I just put some in a ziploc bag…

"And I don't like the idea that the government should have the right to bar people from lighting fireworks because of the marginal danger it might pose."

"If someone wanted to pour a cup of gunpowder into a tin can and explode it, it's probably okay."

I saw a paper a day or so ago that said this was the worst drought in Texas's recorded history. I find that a little hard to believe but it's definitely possible. We got a little rain this last week and people were looking in the sky as if they'd never seen it before, haha.