Not a corvette. I can say this with confidence because I’ve seen one, and it was a travesty. I wish I would’ve taken a picture to prove my point, but I was dealing with multiple small children at the time and it didn’t occur to me to preserve that horror for posterity.

It’s good, but I’m not sure if I like Vanilla ISIS or Y’all-Qaeda better as the name for the people who attempted the recent coup d’tard.

I’m in a similar situation- I wear a P100 dust mask with an exhalation valve because the seal is so good and it doesn’t fog up my glasses. But instead of covering the whole thing with an additional cloth mask I just covered the exhalation valve. My mask wears a mask.

Right there with ya. I remember racing mine back when I was a kid in the 80's. All of the other kids racing had their dad doing repairs and fixing shit, but I was one of the only ones actually working on my own car. It really gave me the confidence to take on more projects and repairs. Maybe even helped lead to my engi…

Thank you- this makes a decent article tolerable to read.

The military doesn’t need to be called in to haul him out of the Oval Office. That’s the job of the Secret Service, and I think that at least some of them who have had to protect him and deal with his crap for the past four years are looking forward to it.

Some spices are fat-soluble. In that case the flavor doesn’t come from the fat, but the flavor is held in the fat.

This really helps explain why Iain M. Banks (Scottish author) chose the spacecraft names he did in the Culture series. I could list some of my favorites, but there are too many- https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series

Amen. I think I have the exact same model. But I’ve never heard it called a butter bell before- I thought it was called a french butter dish.

Pretty much, but it’s not that expensive all at once. You can file a patent for a few thousand, but the fees that add up over the 20 year period the patent is good for eventually get to a high number. It looks like the $1M stuck in my head is for contentious ones that require lots of litigation and the average is…

Patenting things is absurdly expensive and labor intensive. I’ve heard estimates of $1M for the life of a patent. He could go for the high risk-high reward route of trying to patent these ideas...or he could just keep writing articles for his usual paycheck.

If you publish an idea here and someone tries to patent it they should not be able to, as the idea was in the public domain. I see that Toyota was actually first here, but I am looking forward to the eventual, and inevitable, lawsuit to invalidate a patent where the attorneys use one of Torch’s articles as evidence of…

This is the happiest looking car I’ve ever seen. It’s even smizing.

The new version of Facebook breaks Social Fixer on my computer and this plugin makes it work again. So yay, I can keep blocking politics and clickbait.

Amen. Every phone I had prior to wireless charging failed at the charging port...except for the one that restarted every time I closed the sliding keyboard. Now that I pretty much exclusively charge wirelessly my phones are lasting roughly twice as long. It’s not the convenience- it’s the durability and lack of…

You find out at the end. Sometimes they ask which group you thought you were in to see how effective the blinding was. Clinical trials generally give you too much rather than too little information, so you will most likely be told about any possible problem they can think of, no matter how unlikely, during the…

Don’t call it “quilted”, you’re just confusing us woodworkers. Quilted is a grain pattern like curly or burled. This is just wood with a normal grain pattern CNC milled into interesting repeating shapes. But then again it is Bentley, so I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t mill this “quilt” pattern into actual quilted…

The same idea works great for hanging drills/drivers under cabinets. You need a PVC pipe that is just large enough and then cut relief slots for the handle/trigger. Makes a nice solid horizontal holster.

I’m a former Florida resident who had been forced to live in developments with HOAs because there really were not any available non-HOA option. I’ve lived with decent, reasonable HOAs and horrible, abusive, and obnoxious HOAs. I now live in Virginia in a neighborhood that is much nicer than the ones in Florida…

I have a terrier. To them, fetch is only a pretense to try and get you to play tug.