Makes you want to consider strapping on a JATO bottle for that extra little bit of lift.

I can't bring myself to care about a wicked high-resolution tablet display. If I could read the thing in high-noon desert sunlight while wearing sunglasses, yeah, I'd buy that (less than a year after I bought the last model). If the device were IP66-rated, yeah, I'd buy it.

Sooooo, if you live in a part of the world where getting trapped in the snow is possible, why wouldn't you carry appropriate tools to dig yourself out?

How about it being proportional to the number of each sex attending the convention? Not sure you can't accurately count "once in a blue moon" though.

*facepalm*

This is nothing new. It's a well established fact that two people sharing a traumatic experience are likely to wind up in the sack. Pity that you can't plan traumatic experiences because that would certainly take the stress out of asking a girl out.

IMHO, Star Wars wasn't as pivotal as a science-fiction piece as it was changing the way Hollywood does science-fiction. Science fiction productions up to that point had very small scope. I can even recall seeing the trailer on TV and thinking this was yet another largely empty universe. Even Star Trek:TOS seems…

Last I checked, the cost to run a Jet Ranger is $1k per hour. Rural communities prefer not to spend money they don't have to. In addition, rural communities rarely have a helo at their beck & call. It may be on assignment elsewhere. And then there are flight restrictions. A drone could fly at a much lower…

Alas, there are lots of people who are jealous (as opposed to envious) of successful people like this kid and take it upon themselves to knock them down every chance they get.

Hmm, well, given that roughly 96% of everything said on the internet is bullsh*t, maybe this will make a good bullsh*t filter.

Yeah, right, that's exactly what I want to have to do when I'm eating lunch and I can't answer the phone because I'm chewing. Or better yet, that's how I want to have to answer my phone when I've been abducted by the Albanian mafia and I have duct tape covering my mouth.

This raises some interesting legal questions e.g. who owns the rights to low-level airspace?

Not if you rescue a Great Dane. Them things will yank you off your feet. And then there are the deep knee bends to pick up the poop.

Yes, I have a problem with Intuit's annual pointless upgrade business model. I wouldn't mind upgrading every year if the upgrade had something useful in it. Case-in-point, I use Quickbooks Manufacturing Edition on Windows (only because I have no choice). I started using it in 2006 and here we are 6 years later and…

Quicken is hardly a legacy application. Of course, to Intuit, the entire Mac platform is an afterthought.

Pfft. I bought it at $17 and I still have it. So there.

Here's another theory: Researchers are desperately trying to find ways to make cellphones uncool to the masses on the grounds that cellphones used to be cool because only really important people had them. The really important people are sick and tired of the average joes stealing their elite coolness.

Or you could just go for a walk. Costs nothing. Better yet, get yourself a rescue dog. You'll have to go for a walk at least twice a day and you'll be doing the dog a big favor.

Our backcountry search & rescue unit recently recovered the body of a guy who didn't tie in a short enough line. Slipped and fell. No helmet. Did a full-on header.

Only if the snozzberries taste like snozzberries.