There are tons of sensors available for these things. I'm fascinated by the breadth of devices, from CO detectors to color detectors and the like. Great stuff, thanks.

Butcher shop we go to hand-cuts their bacon, so it doesn't roll up like that and it's not all neat and even-sized, and it's more of a bacon steak than a rasher, but it's the best bacon in the known universe. I would just end up shaking out the accordion and cooking it all anyway. :D

Parchment is a miracle item.

Hint: It's not the BACON. (LOL)

Ira Glass is a lot of fun. I can certainly get behind what he's saying here.

Long ago I took to telling people about the stupidest things I've ever done, in amusing anecdote fashion; people are amused, I'm not embarrassed, and I don't ever take myself too seriously because I never forget the time I pulled a "stop-a"…

Everybody is somebody's troll, sometime.

Oh, no! InstaMorph hardens when it cools, and becomes ridiculously tough. Like, "hard to cut with heavy scissors that will cut sheet aluminum like cloth" tough. It's also very rigid; flexible in thin extrusions, but not soft at all. There's no chance of sag under the weight of a multi-tool at all, unless you make it li…

That's true, though I could certainly imagine putting magnets *in* this build for security... Hrm.

Nice! I might have to try something like that with InstaMorph!

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. And the interchangeable bits (Have you seen the "bit kit" for the Leathermans?). I've had Gerbers, Bucks, SOGs, and I came back to the Leathermans when they started putting the rounded edges on the pliers handles and haven't bothered with others since.

And what I'm saying is that there's no evidence to support your assertion (other than "I feel like I can!"), and quite a bit of evidence against it.

If your assertion was true, then changes in the food supply would have little or no effect on humans. This turns out to be untrue, however. The article mentioned that many scientists believe that we, too, are subject to those same influencing, exaggerating responses - in fact, there are quite a few studies supporting…

Yeah, he's pretty much an idiot. Though I do think Dilbert is fairly amusing.

Again, I say, there's little evidence to support that assertion. Nearly every time we discover some means of testing, we discover that circle has grown smaller. For instance, we've demonstrated, clearly and repeatedly, that decision predates ideation. That is, you decide before you consciously "decide". Our thoughts…

We are extremely complex feedback systems, and our thoughts are the stories we tell ourselves to explain our behavior to ourselves.

LOL. Yeah: "Cyanide - in moderation!" ...

But seriously. If we - you, me, John over there - decide what constitutes moderation then "everything in moderation" has no meaning. If Andrew gets up, we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy.

There's very little evidence to support your assertions. The closer we look, the smaller the circle in which that 'conscious mind' can operate.

I think there's more going on that that. I've been a fat guy and a non-fat (whaddaya call people who aren't overweight? They aren't "normal", eh? Not in the good ole US-OF-A) guy at various times in my life, I've dated fat girls and non-fat girls (and yes, "date" in the sense she uses the word above). I think you…

That's a good question. I think we can all agree that we'd like to suffer less at the hands of our own mis-reasoning and cognitive bias, but I'm with you when we talk about the biases that help us remain happy and healthy (like the optimism bias, for example). I think, personally, if there were a switch that allowed…

LOL. I was just giving you an equally meaningless and flippant snarky platitude in response to your own meaningless and flippant snarky platitude, as opposed to engaging in meaningful conversation.