Something similar happened in Seattle in the 1970's- Shelly Bauman was attending the Seattle Bastille Day celebration, when a cannon in the parade shot a beer soaked confetti ball straight into her and she had to have her left leg amputated. She sued the city, and started a disco with money she made in the…

At times like these, my mind always drifts to Fermi’s Paradox, and the Great Filter. Specifically, Fermi’s Paradox pertains to the question as to why, if the universe is so vastly large, with countless life supporting planets and billions of years to develop, have we never come into contact with any other advanced…

The only thing bad I’ll say about removeable batteries is that much like charging cables it’s almost impossible to avoid counterfeit crap when trying to buy a replacement. Sure you could buy the (insanely overpriced) manufacturer battery, but there are so many alternatives at a fraction of the cost- some came from the…

My cellphone ring right out of college was the Super Mario Bros theme, and around the same time I got an entry level job working for a boss that I would later come to realize was a nightmare scenario; Super flaky and also super clingy at the same time, he had me doing event posters and webpages for his hippy dippy new…

It was my understanding that that diner ‘specials’ are actually just dishes made with ingredients that are about to go bad, and need to be moved quickly... so pretty much the opposite of special, in the classical sense.

Don’t forget the original fragrance that started it all, Strangé

maybe that’s because the only media coverage it ever gets involves the .1% of the population who are tech billionaires, instagram models, and obnoxious DJ’s who embody nothing of the event and are pathetic parasites on it’s culture... so not a surprise that it would attract like minded people when that’s all it looks…

Burning Man: A city of 90,000 people, less than .1% of which are Silicon Valley types, Instagram models, or obnoxious DJs... yet they somehow make up 99.99% of all media coverage.

It will be a glorious day when Burning Man is finally considered passé for the nouveau riche.

Funny that you completely ignored software (camera being the exception)... probably because it would completely tank an otherwise stellar product review. Samsung makes absolutely gorgeous hardware, but until they get with the program and release it with stock android, it’s a deal breaker for me, full stop; Gone are…

The one that really blew my mind was people not knowing how to properly wipe their own ass. I believe somewhere on GizMedia there’s a thread about that, but even amongst my own friends it was crazy to find out they had bizarre eccentricities around it; One friend makes a karate chop with his hand, then wraps the…

I know this is common as fuck, but typing is one of mine. I tried taking typing classes many times throughout elementary, middle, & high school, but it never stuck.... I think I just couldn’t trust where my fingers were going without seeing it; As a result I have a weird hybrid method somewhere between actual typing…

I have zero sense of direction, and can only follow a map if I keep spinning it to face the same way I am... I always assumed this is also a part of why I’m terrible at 3D shooting games, because I get completely lost almost instantly and can’t figure out where to go. I have multiple stories where I’ve left a bar…

I’m baffled as to how pizza didn’t end up on top of the list. Even if you don’t like cold pizza (heresy!) heating it in a skillet yields pizza that tastes damn near fresh out the oven. No other fast-food/reheat method comes close.

“harness is a harness... and I have harnassed the harnass to my harnass.”

(in all seriousness, I think, “Gravity is a harness... and I have bound it to my will.” sounds sufficiently cool (and possibly unhinged) and conveys the control aspect of the initial statement using the word “bound” instead of a verb for…

They’re saying that because he finished the wheel of time, and his contributions were some of the best of the entire series.

I’m fully convinced that GRRM got fed up long ago with fans biting at his heels, and has comforted himself with the rationalization that by sitting back and letting the dumpster fire ending from the show be the definitive conclusion, he is giving all of us exactly what we deserve.

If he dies, I hope he still feeds into my end game theory- which is that Jamie reappears in Kings Landing after the battle and in a private meeting with Cersei, chokes her to death after she realizes he still has both hands... Because it’s Arya wearing Jamie’s face.

A “shaggy dog story” is a long meandering story that ends with no real point... Kind of like a missing Stark sibling that reappears after several seasons, only to die abruptly because he cannot run in a zig zag. :/

My frustration with the Battlestar Galactica finale was that it clearly showed Ron Moore had painted himself into a corner, and the only way out was a literal deus ex machina... But even worse, if you were paying attention, it was abundantly clear that Moore did very little to plan ahead plot wise beyond thinking…