Adblock handled it for me. Had to click a few more times but all I saw was the news video.

I bought his self-published book through Amazon. A fascinating read. This gentleman is under-employed.

Well, in all fairness, you would never expect an earthquake followed by a tsunami. And after a bad earthquake, the power should come back in a few days, and you couldn't foresee the emergency pumps running out of fuel.

So...Microsoft just discovered cron and rsync?

"Here's the thing: when someone has an ocean-going fleet that would make a Bond villain jealous, I have a hard time caring if they felt slighted by a business partner 20 years ago. "

"...sending them beyond the hope of recovery? "

5. It was previously known as Burj Dubai.

zut, alors!

My daughter's roommate has one. I fell asleep in it. Very comfy.

Meh..what's a tent with no camels?

+1 for Mr. Wizard!

Blade/wrench combo seems like an accident waiting to happen. They say it's a locking blade, but all the same...and I sure hope those bits store in the handle?

@gary_7vn: Those little ones do work, but they take too long (time management is critical in the classroom) and they leave a mess. There's no win, just cost-reduced fail. I found an old Boston electric sharpener from years back, it lasted almost two years on her desk. We replaced it with a newer copy of the same…

@MrTripps: Many, but not all, of my wife's students do, as well. However, she's required to provide pencils for students who forget them, or whose mechanical pencils have run out of lead, or whatever. The school won't pay for mechanical pencils (hell, they're having enough trouble paying *her*), so she hands out…

My wife's a math teacher. She laments the decline in quality of the humble pencil sharpener. The ones that used to be screwed to the wall lasted forever. Unfortunately, they went when the building was refurbished. The crap you get today is all imported from overseas and fails within a month. They look the same,…

Perhaps they did it during their lunch hour, or after work, or on Saturday?

The French didn't "try to help" Vietnam, they were the colonial power, driven out by the Viet Minh. They warned *us* that getting involved was a Bad Idea. We, of course, knew better.

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