These two Jansports bags are carried on (the larger placed above, the smaller under the seat in front of me) and have been just fine for trips overseas for over a month at a time. I do not do checked baggage. There are laundries pretty much all over the world, and clothing shops if I am desperate for something I…

My travel Netbook uses an SD card for ReadyBoost. The Netbook was formatted (to strip it's crapware) and then loaded with Win 7 Ultimate. The added ReadyBoost gives it the oomph to run quite well when I'm away from home.

Been there, seen that, but I'll be back.

I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh what a thing to do
'Cause you were all yellow

Mrs. Hudson: There's another bedroom upstairs, if you'll be needing two bedrooms.
Dr. John Watson: Of course we'll be needing two bedrooms.
Mrs. Hudson: Oh, don't worry. We get all sorts 'round here. Mrs. Turner next door's got married ones.

More Awesome, Less Chuck please.

It would be notable to tell us which, if any, YMCA or YWCA has communal showers for use by both men and women at the same time. "Mixed company" means a group of people in which there are males and females.

This is why the codpiece was invented.

We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

How about death, or as the Russian Times newservice reports: "A Russian man was brutally beaten to death for being gay after coming out to his friends, investigators confirmed, stating that he was a victim of a homophobic gang. The victim sustained serious injuries in the assault, including to his genitals".

I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii. Where the humuhumunukunukuapua'a go swimming by.

The Thai Bum Gun is great once you figure out the right amount of pressure to use on the trigger and how to properly seal your bum to the seat. The cold water can be a shock - but not so much in Thailand as there's no such thing as cold water coming out of any tap.

"... should you or any of your Gizmodo team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions"

Cue 'Eye of the Tiger'.

Back in 2009 it was announced "The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers."

If you want the bus to come, light a cigarette. If you want it to rain, wash the car.

Not only should you see this film, you should see it in a Cinerama theater which is designed for films of this era. The carpet in front of the first row will run right up to the screen, three projectors will beam their images to the curved screen.

I was thinking bobbling bollocks.

"Howdy. Uh... How are you guys doin'?"

Ah, but every four years it get a little longer.