It works both ways, too; you have idiot drivers who don’t pay attention to the pedestrians crossing with the light when they’re making turns, and idiot pedestrians ignoring the “Don’t Walk” sign and stepping out into the street, because the green light means they can cross, even if the pedestrian crossing light has…

Unfortunately, in too many cases, the police get soggy and hard to light because you responded “how high?” instead of “can I come down now?”.

“Florida Man Crashes Google Street View Car After 100mph Chase”

It’s still a crapshoot, though; the projected lifespan for an LED bulb may be 20 years, but you can still have one fail any time. I had to replace the LED bulb in the lamp on my nightstand after only four years, while I’ve had other LED bulbs soldiering on after ten.

I’ve made a different version of this before, and it’s wonderful. Packed with whatever fillings you want — ham, chopped pepperoni, cooked and crumbled sausage, mushrooms, peppers, diced onion (I prefer to sauté them for sweetness, as they don’t cook much in the filling), finely minced pepperoncini, different cheeses...…

The remarks about carrying straps reminds me that I should, for the next time I find myself with some free time, dig out one of my copies of Ashley’s Book of Knots and look over the choices in 550 paracord at paracordgalaxy.com with an eye to making sleeves for my Contigo bottles that I can work suspense loops into,…

I have no way to prove this without considerable research, but I’m convinced that the way the pricing works is that, as soon as the cost of gas to the station operator is expected to go up, they raise their price to give them a bit of extra cushion to pay for their next delivery at the higher price, and then when the…

When I was in college, spending my summers in Tempe, one of the local TV stations would always have a “can we cook eggs on a manhole cover?” segment at some point.

As anyone who cooks sous vide will tell you, it’s not a simple “this temperature makes it safe”; it’s a tradeoff of time and temperature. Bringing chicken to an internal temperature of 165°F will render it safe regardless of how much time it spends at that temperature, but you can heat chicken to a lower temperature…

I swear most of what he does is just predicated on whim and the need to look like you’re doing something.

The casinos just offer to blank off their windows for the race, so the F1 organization doesn’t have to install all of those expensive view-destroying obstacles, then once it’s too late for them to set them up, the casinos install sets of cameras looking out on the race route, linking them to the enormous display walls…

Scientific facts are no match for the “OMG greenhouse gases! Stop it immediately!” knee-jerk from CAGC fanatics for whom the virtue-signalling appearance is more important than actually doing something substantive.

He’s too X’y for his anything...

If it’s water evaporation into the open atmosphere, then it’s only a matter of time before that becomes either denigrated or outright prohibited, given the knee-jerk attitudes of the CAGC community and the fact that water vapor is a greenhouse gas several times more potent than CO2.

Until the steganographic data embedded in the images out you, at which point you could be blackballed and put on a permanent rejection list.

Oh, I’m certain that it’s not; however, the cost ratio between it and existing fuels would give us an idea of how far its development has to go before it can become cost-competitive with fossil fuel, or how much of a premium the airlines are going to have to absorb pass on to customers when it can’t be produced at a…

This is one of the very few ‘treatments’ for which the standard practices of homeopathy would actually be beneficial. Take a gram of borax, dissolve it in a liter of water, then take 10ml of that and mix it into 10 liters of water, and do that five or six more times, under the principles of homeopathy you should wind…

I am reminded of  a line from a book on backpacking discussing the problems of packaging ingredients to cook with while backpacking: “Weevils do not actually harm the flour, and in fact increase the protein content, but they are widely considered unesthetic.”

I think that the benefits from large-scale adoption of EVs, even if their power comes from fossil-fuel generation, is supposed to be that the industrial-scale use of fossil fuels can be made more efficient than tens of thousands of individual power plants. This does, however, ignore the multiple losses inherent in…

For the test flight, Virgin Atlantic has partnered with Air BP and Virent, which will provide a new fuel that cuts lifecycle CO2 emissions by as much as 70 percent.