I never wanted to go on a cruise and between this crash, the other crash, and that whole "entire ship filled with sewage" incident, I am glad to have my life choices validated.

There is also much less research going on to VAWT's. The aerodynamics are way more complex. Everything is unsteady, which makes it much harder to properly research, measure and compute. Also, the blades move through shed vorticity giving much more issues regarding fatigue and flutter. There has been hardly any…

Not being American, I thought the whole point of Halloween was that you were supposed to dress scary? Apparently not, though admittedly a lot of the 'sexy' costumes are frightening in a 'worried for the future of humanity' kinda way.

I've been sitting at my desk waiting, waiting!! for Jezebel to write this.

I would hate that in real life.

It takes at least three years after living abroad to stop referring to the experience on a daily basis. And it's not because you want to be insufferable; it's because it was this amazing epoch that divides your life into Before Tuscany and After Tuscany. Only other people who have escaped their home countries for a…

Dude, they need to take those cages off so they can have fucked up teeth and risk serious brain injury from a puck to the head like us awesome men. Yeah... grunt, snort, grunt.

Can't believe I'm getting so much use out of this today:

I always get these two mixed up.

The teachers thing kills me. There's a law that requires teachers to report shit like this. My mind is blown by that.

I suggested that my granddaughters go dressed as Tea Party members so they can denounce the socialism of giving away candy to everyone just because they showed up and demanding a free market Halloween solution that denies everyone any candy unless they already have candy, in which case they can keep it. Those without…

At first glance, I thought this was a very intricately molded chocolate bar. Yum.

Awww, I want to give him a hug.

My thighs are big and muscular from a ton of biking/soccer/potato sack lifting that are slowly going soft from my new, sedentary grad student lifestyle. I also have wide hips. This has produced a thigh triangle? Is this a thing? Like, at the very top of my legs near my lady bits there is a gap, but then the swoop of…

They've actually just cast Michelle Bachmann in the role and told her to play herself. It's going to be fucking SCARY.

I hope whoever said that to you got exactly what s/he deserved.

Are they to be whipped for their "crime"?