Counter counter point: declawing does more than take away their defense system. Claws are an integral part of the cat’s foot and removing them is the same as taking the last joint off your fingers. Trimming an indoor cat’s claws is far healthier for them and has the same effect.

Since I’m bored I’ll take this time to rant a bit.

Fortunately the Nvidia 4000 series and AMD 7000 series are on their way to keep us warm.

Right now its in a grey area between a ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme, but either way the creators of crypto systems are luring people into investing in an asset that has no discernible value. Realistically anyone involved in the creation of a crypto currency could be prosecuted the moment they convert crypto to USD.

Jersey Mike’s is great, but is in no way the most underrated. That would be El Pollo Loco.

Tolkien did have a few references to our typical magic user. Sorcerer and sorcery were used to describe humans that used powers beyond their normal means (the Witch-King being the prime example). They were universally evil, in fitting with the general theme of “don’t take power that doesn’t belong to you.”

Every place I’ve been that offered it melted it on top of the pie. Never seen it as a side.

Add Rainbow Six and Serious Sam to that list and you have my college years. I almost never played those games alone, but cram a dozen people into a single house and I would play for days. It also helped that I didn’t have to buy the games I was only playing at LAN parties, since copy protection was weak or…

I’d never read that (the HOME books are so dense they make The Silmarillion feel like light reading) but it really would be a great addition. Numenor was supposed to be an advanced civilization with a strong maritime tradition so it would be cool to see Ar-Pharazon charging off to Eressea with a fleet of ironclads or…

The Lord of the Rings was written because people wrote Tolkien and said, “more hobbits please.” I agree that this a superb way to tie hobbits into an older story, and is essentially what Tolkien did in tying The Hobbit into his burgeoning mythology.

Mexican food: We have 50 variations of the same basic ingredients and they all get unique names.

A better question is: what’s the difference between aioli and toum?

The irony in all this is that Tolkien’s desire was to create a mythology in which other people could tell their own stories, not to have his own stories rehashed endlessly.

Part of the problem is that the book has very little drama. It’s playful and silly and has plenty of heart, which I love, but Hollywood demands a certain amount of confrontation and action that the book just doesn’t have. So they force in some weird dramatic bits that don’t have the same character as the book and it…

I really like the comparison of the raw image vs the representative color image. The first is what the eye can see, but the second is what’s really there. It makes you wonder what things look like outside the visible spectrum.

If you read the brochure they note the 90% energy reduction is vs conventional AC in a high desert climate. Similar claims could be made about any evaporative cooler whether direct (swamp cooler) or indirect.

Personally I prefer Ken’s Extra Heavy, also available on Amazon. If you don’t use much mayo, Kewpie is almost the same as extra heavy and comes in small bottles.

Alcohol, for one, is toxic to your body. But as the article mentioned you have organs that deal with it. Heavy metals (such as mercury) are harder to filter out and even when they are filtered out of the blood stream they tend to build up in the organs doing the filtering. But there’s no proof that any of these…

As a native New Englander I have to point out that Cape Cod beat them to it. Of course my point is moot since now both companies are owned by Snyder-Lance, one of the many subsidiaries of the behemoth that is AB-InBev.

which of course is based on the hugely popular Fallout video game franchise by Bethesda Interplay.