I can relate to the fear that a well-behaved child will suddenly ruin my meal. Every time I see someone order wine, I wonder if it will trigger an attack of the DT's from some long ago alcoholism and he'll start picking fights with everyone. And for people a bit on the corpulent side tucking in to a big meal, there…

Oh, so now intervention is just. Bully for you.

I am okay with cars and pretty good with household repairs. To the point where my wife sees something she likes and asks "Can you make that?"

No joke here. I have lots of pages with lots of pictures. I can click and drag them one by one, or generate a list, then plug in all the HTML boilerplate. Way faster. Except, how do you generate the list? Because Windows' recipe, I kid you not, is take a screen shot of your directory, then past the image into your…

The mantra for the last quarter century has been shareholder satisfaction uber alles. Fine. the obvious cure for corporate irresponsibility is to make the shareholders very unhappy. Give the SEC power to suspend trade in a company's stock for a while if the company causes harm to anyone, directly or indirectly. I…

Well, I'm glad somebody took this on. I wanted to post to the article itself but I didn't feel like creating yet another crap user account for the privilege.

Nobody liked the term to begin with. Back when they first began having flight attendants, nobody knew what to call them. "Flight attendant" would have been meaningless in the 1930's. Terms from train travel, like "porter" weren't really adequate. Initially they had to be nurses, and so they needed a term that conveyed…

As a patriotic male, I am always prepared to do my booty, er, duty.

There's your plan. Collect all the most hated video games, music CD's, DVD's of Battlefield Earth, copies of Vista and Windows ME (and 8?), old Apple III's, etc. Bury them over and around the nuclear waste. Future generations will dig them up or find them uncovered by erosion and flee in horror.

We have a direct democracy, too. We also have a court system that overturns popular vote on a regular basis.

"Normal people who already pay way too much to play games online."

It's Mother's Day, soon, so we will be treated to all those stupid articles tallying up the value of a mom as manager, psychologist, chef, etc. Well, guess what. You're CEO of your life all the time, but you don't get a CEO salary for it. I make a lot of my own meals, but opening a can of Dinty Moore doesn't make me a…

Red Dawn, 1984 was filmed in Las Vegas, NM (not NV!). Dante's Peak (town scenes) was filmed in Wallace, ID. Actually, IMDB has all the filming locations, for anyone who wants extra credit.

How is this anyone else's business but CrossFit's? If person A's sexuality is none of anyone's business, how B responds, apart from the normal prohibitions against assault or other crimes, is also none of anyone's business.

If you're driving in a -er, driving rain, it's very common to see droplets skitter across the water film on the hood of your car instead of simply merging with it. A long time ago Scientific American did an article on this in their Amateur Scientist column. I suspect there's more going on than mere trapped air.

On vocabulary, words like "be" are actually concepts, with many forms, and there may be numerous synonyms for the same concept (fast and quick, etc.). What would really be useful would be a concept list, and here is one:

Note to non-profits: You don't care that I've expressed a desire not to be called, but I'm going to donate to your cause. Yeah. How does that work, exactly?

No, blame the passengers. If people were willing to pay the real costs of doing business we wouldn't have this problem. But to save a few bucks on fare, people said it would be okay to brown-bag on flights, so now there's virtually no meal service. And to save a few bucks on tickets, we now have check-in fees.

I think instead of "Painter of Light," he should be called "Painter of Slush." Not for his style (although that works, too) but have you even noticed how many of his paintings are just after a snowstorm with deep ruts in the snow in the road? Looks so picturesque, unless you live where it actually happens and can…

I seriously doubt two remote control helicopters can lift a person, even the lithe young lady in the video. But if they can, do they do home delivery?