For those of you that are fans of The Shining movie (which I am) that hotel is on Mt. Hood (Oregon) at Timberline Lodge.

finally, a robot that can chase me down and choke me to death

I usually underestimate the size of these things. When I envisioned the Mars rover, I envisioned something the size of a large RC car. It’s really the size of an actual car. When I thought of the mars helicopter, I thought, again, of something RC sized.  But this thing has a rotor span of 4 feet.

That’s gotta be some record for longest time flying a remote control helicopter without breaking it.

Give em time to understand the discovery and its implications first.

So, an isopod that looks like salmon sushi would be out then?

I love the Micro$oft sarcasm.

Bingo, if anything is causing degradation issues, it’s the heat in FL; lead acid batteries also don’t last as long due to the heat. I’ve had an EV for 4 years now and tire wear is no different from my prior vehicles. 

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping.

A quick search shows that on average, tires in Florida have at least a 20% shorter life span than in other states with cooler or drier climates. 

It is a ‘meat slicer’, and fingers are made of meat.... There is a very good reason to spend as little time as possible inside the cutting area of a deli meat slicer!

it is good for everybody!*

*by everybody we only mean Microsoft’s shareholders and top management

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Everybody noticing our profile pictures are all gone and won’t upload? So long commenters, it has been a good one.

Subway doesn’t seem to understand their customers.

This whole article seems to boil down to “we figured out how much force it takes to rip apart a proton.”

Any discussion of a “New Physics” especially in relation to our understanding of gravity, is interesting to me. 

I worked at a Subway in Alaska that by virtue of having different logistics held on to the older system and ingredients far past what other franchieses did that I ran into ‘down south’. We sliced in the store, and it was a pain in the butt, mostly the cleaning. When they brought in the new sliced variants because…