I’m an old man so I still throw out a “Shazbot!” now and then.

The one I probably use the most is “smeg head.”

*put another way, on a flat plane, “up” is ahead of the viewer, and “down” is behind the viewer.

In any case, in the auto industry, the X axis us usually the fore-aft length of the car, Y is cross-car, and Z is perpendicular to both. So in this case, we should say the switch has been rotated 180 about its Z axis.

It depends on your perspective. If you look at the little locks and the text on the buttons, you would definitely say those are upside down. That’s because, on a flat plane, “up” is forward and and “down” is backwards.

So this is accurate, though, like you said, I could also have used other terms like “oriented the…

Their second point it fair.  Don’t bring your kids to a bar.

I propose the death penalty for any journalist who uses the trite phrase “perfect storm,” even if set off in quotes. 

See, I don’t understand any of this at all. I book a hotel room so I have somewhere to sleep when I’m not doing what I’m in town to do. The job of housekeeping is to refresh the room after I’ve used it. I’m not gonna trash the room, but why should I do their job for them? If I want privacy, I need to feel bad about…

Are you familiar with the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy? You mention a 7.1 quake in Alaska. There like 50 Earthquakes a day in some location on Earth, somewhere. There are weather systems and storms changing all over at any given moment. The polar vortex is big news in North American news but did you bother to look and…

“In the first six months of the sequence alone, at least 0.24 cubic miles of magma has shifted around. That’s roughly equivalent to 385 Great Pyramids of Giza.”

This whole mess boils down to Boeing needing the FAA to consider the 737 MAX the same aircraft type as the preceding 737 NG. That would speed time to market and allow Boeing to sell new airframes without imposing hefty training costs on airlines. And the reason for that was that Airbus was making hay with their…

I do this every year despite how much it costs me psychologically, physically, socially, and financially. But I don’t learn.

I have a hunch that Boeing will be making that a standard feature going forward.

Female park ranger supervisor ousted at the demand of male rangers. In related news, the Sun is expected to rise in the East tomorrow.

Modern cars are so well built, and so meticulously engineered that you can pretty much count on them lasting forever - provided they’re properly maintained.

Hillary Clinton was a centrist and she still lost to Donald Trump. Barrack Obama was not a white man and yet won two elections against white men. Please excuse me if I don’t trust your assessment . . .

We need Blake now, more than ever. Also Cally. And Gan. And Villa. And Avon. And The Liberator and Zen. Preferably on Blu-Ray NTSC so I can watch them again. Dammit!

Impressive Blake’s 7 cosplay!

I hear you there.
I’ll never forget the words my boss told me (while I was still recovering in the hospital, mind you): “Do you know when the doctors say you’ll be able to come back? Because if it’s too long, we’ll have to do something here.” Granted, he never said “Come back ASAP, or you’ll be replaced”, but it still…