Interesting. The Metropolitan doesn’t get a ton of love. My personal deathmatch hin these regards has always been the Safari vs. the Kaweco Sport, which I think provides a more interesting counterpoint.

Meet the marketing exec who made the decision...

Are you fucking shitting me?

True. I knew a woman who had several large feeders in her garden and dozens of hummers feeding together (with frequent squawking contests, of course). Also, There was a tree at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, whose common name is the “cow-itch tree”, an Australian native, that attracted (I swear!) all the hummers in the…

man, the joys of having a smooth coated white dog. I bet you have dog hair in places you didn’t even know you had places.

I think this speaks for itself (Cavil's "I Don't Want To Be Human" speech).

Hawks will just knock your drone out of the sky. Golden eagles will grab them and fly away with them. And crows will intercept them, reprogram them, and send them back to hunt down and destroy their operators.

Terry Gilliam called. He wants his 40-year-old idea back.

If you had any idea how to use them the card catalog was a LIFE saver in a large library with multiple floors and whole buildings full of things you were looking for. I refuse to accept that the card catalog was a bad thing. Once computerized systems replace it, things got even better; but in its time the card…

Team Dog salutes these heroes.

One of Strelka's puppies, Pushinka, was given to John F Kennedy's daughter in 1961 by Nikita Khrushchev. When Pushinka had puppies, Kennedy would refer to them as "Pupniks".

Coo,coo, ca-choo, Mrs Robinson...

Atlanta Rhythm Section...

He does like to lick himself and drink out of water fountains.

Back when I was sophomore in highschool, my grandmother with Alzheimer's and Dementia lived with us. My parents both worked long hours, and my sister had just gotten her license and a vehicle, and could be counted on to not be home after school - leaving me to take care of her. At fourteen years old, I acted as my…

That stunt is so insane/great. And this movie is great. What could go wrong with an old fashioned?

I love you, Arrow, but:

"New red shirt?"

The US hangup about abortion has nothing to do with bioethics or ethics of any kind. It has to do with too damn many idiotic Bible thumping low-IQ never got past high school morons who think religious fervor can and should take the place of sense, rationality, education and intelligence.