The only drawback is that the Swedish Chef on board is a bit noisy.

"So, move to Texas and pray for good weather."

Suuuuure they do.

Can't, or doesn't want to reveal its capabilities?

Nice info! I love that: we don't use Morse code here any longer, but it's significance is carried on by something like this.

That's an insulating thing to say!

And in the end - it's still a GM.

Shortly after 'fascinating' was supplanted by 'mesmerizing'...

Actually, ATL isn't that bad, once you've figured out that you can go through the (usually less crowded) 'north terminal' security, even if you have to go to the south terminal - both areas join after the security checkpoints, and you can go wherever you need to...

Twohundred-friggin'-what?! I'll be damned if I ever buy jeans that cost more than $24.99!

Your example illustrates nicely that there's what I call a pretentious element about 'lifehacking': your relative just does it, because he thinks about how to make stuff work (basically), but we give it a grand term, and make much ado about it. One always has to 'lifehack' in a way, or, in other words, live using…

Good on you! Wish more people were exposed to that language through secondary education. Excellent training in structure / logic / systematics, and it helps to learn other languages.

Hehe! 9 years of Latin - can still spool them declinations & conjugations off...

Nope - it's part of the -tas/tatis declination: velocitas (nominative), velocitatis (genitive), velocitati (dative), velocitatem (accusative). Nominative plural would be 'velocitates'.

It's not something that can easily be seen on an anatomical/structural level - it's more that it's neural networks that are distributed in certain areas of tissue.

you mean a "viagrable" area of study?

...and, of course, how that converts to the speed of sheep in vacuum!

Always amazed how stitched-together the lunar module looks (and probably was due to weight limits): a few aluminum panels held together by brackets and tape, and wrapped with tin foil. That thing must have creaked and squeaked like an old chevy...

Hilarious. I don't think this is necessarily racist - it's a play with the phonetics of a language. It exists all over the world (ok, this is not an argument, really), it's more a good ribbing. On the other hand, it would be more funny if there hadn't been any deaths.

I would fire the guy who painted the diagonal lines on the tarmac such that they don't line up with the angle of the wings.