I can enjoy football, and even baseball, but as far as I'm concerned, soccer, basketball and hockey are all the same game. People trying to shoot something into a net, working under ridiculous limitations to make the game seem a little less trivial than it actually is. See thirty seconds of one and you see every game…

The loudmouth or con man who manipulates everyone because nobody else in the sitcom will stand up to him.

Not a web site, just a part of one, and a tad technical. The U.S. Geological Survey used to have a page where you could select a state, view a list of all the topographic maps for that state, then download the digital data. Instead of simply leaving that link in place, they took it down, so to get map data now, you go…

Heidi was the greatest thing ever! As a kid, I would get so pi$$ed that my favorite program would be cancelled if a football game ran late. Karma's a b****, ain't it, sports fans? Serves you right. So now the networks do the smart thing and just push the program back.

Run a banner at the bottom of the screen. A measure of how "urgent" the stations consider these warnings is that they don't run during commercials.

Sure, but they were concerned with something like the later collapse of the Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire. Specifically, a large collapse of the whole face might convert the falls to a steep cascade. They couldn't prevent it on a very long time scale but for decades at least.

Astronomer Jill Tarter nailed it when she called the Drake Equation "A marvelous way to organize our ignorance."

Maximum depth 600 meters. Maximum submerged speed 35 knots. Plus ???

When we took a trip from Wisconsin to California, I told my sones (age 7 and 5) to keep their arms inside the car or the freeway bears would get them. "There are no freeway bears!" Then, less confidently, "Are there?"

This is a little like proving how bad Photoshop is by giving us a gallery of pictures where they cut off the model's hand or mismatched a body contour. But yeah, light touch. That mountain scene looks just like a Thomas Kinkaid painting </snark>

I have 100,000 images (digital photos plus digitized slides) and my metadata is on spreadsheets. Got a photo program that can:

#5: Doing 65 from Green Bay to Milwaukee is almost as fast as speeding (a 2-hour trip). From Omaha to Cheyenne or Salt Lake City to Reno at 80 vs. 65, no contest. When I drove across Texas (80 mph) a couple of years ago, people weren't doing 100, they were doing 80. Set speed limits where they should be, the 85th…

Very likely a lot is recycled as mulch.

Interestingly, you CAN have a 1970 lifestyle on 30 hours' work a week. One car, no freezer, maybe a window A/C, no computer, no cell phone, black and white TV, no organ transplants, no chemotherapy, an 800-square foot home, no microwave, you never fly, etc.

What makes these work are the imperfections. The views through a cockpit with stray reflections. The less than optimal lighting looking into the sun. And the ground has the look it does from an airplane window. Detail is rich but subdued. I have no idea why a Swedish jet would be flying over a desert but the ground is…

Liked the Swedish Saab jet. The one with 256 on the tail and the three crowns on the wing.

Often the opaque agent is titanium dioxide, which has an extremely high refractive index and is white (actually colorless) when pure. It is also used in inks to make them opaque.

Especially if the red is coming out of holes in you.

I once read my horoscope in an in-flight magazine and was amazed at how accurate it was. Then I looked at the rest and every one had something to do with travel, new experiences, etc. You're on a plane. Of course the stars "see travel in your future."

Who builds a turbine that can spin in a hurricane?