IIRC, at one point they were claiming that the transporter technology was used to break all waste down to an elemental level and stored in space in the ship’s hull until required for reconstitution as food, tools, goods or people, and the “you” transported to a site was assembled from local materials in the proper…

Just for reference, Logan to LAX cost $700 one way on the back end of the 1990's (last time I flew was a few months before 9/11), $1200 for a round trip. And that was basic cattle class, with one TV dinner and a soda for amenities.

Please say you’re a fan of the original, because the new one that came out months ago seriously sucked.

The original version, Detective Conan, is somewhat better than the Hollywood butchery, Case Closed.

Ummm... 9/97 - 3/98 is when it originally aired. The span you gave is barely enough time for a 13 episode weekly series (and Bebop ran 26 episodes, which requires a 6 month time block). And it didn’t air in the US until 2001, so you can’t claim the shortened time frame was the result of being aired nightly on Adult…

I can see why any store manager would think the coupon was questionable. Exactly how many coupons have any of us seen where the brand or vendor is a freaking fill-in-the-blank line? And the coupon was issued by someone other than CVS. And the tale behind it was rather far-fetched. Why would this woman in Chicago end…

Huh. Considering the quality of the cutting my ride on Snapper does... I knew it had some pep, but I had no clue I was exceeding 125 MPH. Not like there is a speedometer on the blasted thing. And it still takes almost 2 hours to mow my back yard...

So silly. Summer isn’t just for grilling and barbecue. It is also for cooking outdoors with electrical kitchen appliances. At least several times a month the crockpot, electric pressure cooker or electric griddle head outside for cooking in the back yard. Matter of fact, I do my meatloaf in the pressure cooker rather…

All I can say is... Having played games in Night City since the setting first hit the game books in 1988, I just want freaking game books. I don’t need this video game silliness, especially since it won’t go very far what with the video game company registering a trademark in Europe based heavily on a book series logo…

I see an important need point something out here. Well, point a lot of stuff out, actually, which all related to not so illegal public corruption. There is a town near me where an important roadway is an utter mess. This is a relatively minor roadway, but important to me because I live in a section of my township that…

ALS can be a truly sinister disease. Get a form of it young as Stephen Hawking did (afflicted in 1963 at age 21) and you very well can live another 50+ years with it. Hawking died at age 76. But suffer the onset in your 40's or later, and you’ll be lucky if you last two more years before the disease kills you.

LOL. Yeah, we have three or four dealership strips between Trenton and Cape May under investigation for various consumer protection violations and outright fraud. I think one in the Vineland/Millville area actually closed its doors before the investigation concluded. Sadly, the investigations take years to accomplish…

There is already a federal government maintained website where you can enter your VIN and get a full history of recalls affecting your vehicle. My 1994 Honda Accord was recalled three different times for headlamp assembly malfunctions, for example. It had a total of 16 recalls between 1994 and 2002. But hey, you just…

Furmissile is so going to be the name of my next dog.

Obviously, the author of this article has never grilled a cheeseburger for my mother, who semi-jokes by saying “when they said quarter pounder, I thought they were talking about just the cheese.” And then expects her grilled burgers to be made with at least a third of an inch of cheese on top.

I was impressed until.... I realized there are tailpipes in the way of adding a tow hitch. LOL

Invalid trademarks. They filed for the trademark in 2003 on a term that has been used as an identifier by the US military since 1982. This invalidates the trademark by more than two decades of clearly established prior use. And given the fact that the first Call of Duty game was literally announced days before the…

Except... all of those ‘surplus’ ads in the comics were scams. Especially the ‘jeep in a crate’ ads. What they were really selling was a pamphlet guide to government auctions that would presumably contain said Jeeps. And there is actually no evidence whatsoever that a single crated Jeep ever made it into the…

Huh. I remember many years ago, if you wanted a surplus HMMWV, you had to buy it as scrap and hope you got a batch that came from the same vehicle. They were literally taking a torch to retired HMMWVs and cutting them up as scrap for the auctions. Early on, you were lucky and typically got all the scrap produced by a…

There should be a legal clause allowing cops to just smash over-tinted windows right there on the side of the road during a traffic stop and let the driver go on their merry way. Saves on court costs and odds are extremely high a driver won’t have it happen a third time.