This was always fun:

Why the Subaru Tribeca? Soccer moms gone bad? Or is it the new street racer of choice?

I'm in an amateur film group that makes zero-budget movies on the weekends — and now we have a cable access tv show! Here's one I directed:

Now I'm going to have to stick a Narwhal tusk on the front of my truck to complement the truck-nuts (after I get a truck).

We have a lot of eagles where I live and I often see crows chasing them! (Not catching them, though, just trying to run them away.)

I still remember the first time I read the part in All Quiet on the Western Front where he describes how a rifle and bayonet were useless in trench warfare, and that the best weapon was a sharpened shovel. So, no, I don't think trenches were a great strategy if you were in them.

No. 7 is the one that scares me because it is the only one on the list that could be done today with existing technology and have very lethal consequences. (No. 8 is close, but it has technical hurdles that have still not been addressed.)

Yup - If you have kids, the first thing you do is to find a good school. Then you try to find a house as close to the school as possible. After that everything is easy!

One big one missing from the list is the over-loved pot device of the character getting knocked out from a blow to the head and then waking up "some time later" with "a bad head ache" before jumping right back into the story. If they were really hit in the head that hard, chances are they simply wouldn't wake up…

This product seems great except for one thing that makes no sense: It is a smoke and CO detector combined, but smoke rises and CO sinks! Really you want a smoke detector on the ceiling and a CO detector on the ground. A CO detector on the ceiling will only make a sound long after you yourself have expired.

Dennis Hopper did it better - and without the suit!

In College I took a great course on the Scientific Method - obviously it was not just the silly outline you get in your first grade school science class - it went into all sorts of detail ranging from where good science questions come from to detailing what scientists actually do in the lab on a day to day basis.

Hollywood Scifi: "When you see the fireball, jump!"

I agree - I think the study should have taken into account the number of blocked appointees for each administration. Failure of oversight and failure of operations could both be attributed to the absence of an appointed department head.

Ray Kurzweil's Accelerating Intelligence

This is a nice idea, but the reason organisms that resemble humans are studied in the first place is not because scientist think humans are superior, but rather because organisms that resemble humans can be used as models to study human diseases.

I use a standing/walking desk for busy-work like emails and looking up stuff on the web, but when I have to focus, I have to sit, and, like the author, I recline and stick my feet straight out - though I haven not tried it with my feet up! (I use a Herman Miller Envelope Desk with their Embody chair.)

More money = more stuff = more time spent looking after and fixing said stuff.

Rohrabacher: [snickering]

Oh, go on!