Wait...*I* care! Except, that would be stupid because this is the internet and no one cares. I know!

Or the http://fuckchristmas.org/ series.

This explains it. Bad PR.

There was an old joke during my TV years where they said, "You know it's going to be a bad day when a 60 minutes crew in in your office waiting to see you." I've upgraded that one to, "You know it's going to be a bad day if Jon Stewart is on the other side of the table disagreeing with you." That dude is wicked…

I don't think "most" gardeners I know use motor oil to keep their tools tight. They universally use some vegetable oil here, like the straight filtered so-called bio diesel (just particulate filtered waste veggie oil.)

Forgot to say this, but thanks for the time and information. Helpful. Gonna do it.

Old school way - with a meter and a specification. But I would bet that when you taped-out to get the program put in ROWM (w=wire), you made 3 at the same time so that if there was a manufacturing error in one, or it got broke, that you had a spare.

Oh, I think we could see them again. The gene pool hasn't changed that much in 50 years. Challenges are everywhere. What we may not have is a culture that allows that level of risk taking due to lawyer and insurance company proliferation.

I just got the year old Gingerbread release yesterday. It's wonderful and sad (because it's so old, added a lot of value and it just released) all at the same time. I guess I was on the Android "stone knives and bear skins" release before.

They asked you not to ask. Now you have to go to the lye-tank to get the answer.

What's interesting about this is that it doesn't take the anyone except a goods vendor to change their behavior to "get rid of pennies." Make prices include tax, and price rounding up to the nearest nickel/dime. At the level of competition, I can't see any real price comparison effects, and at the technological…

Everything is a bottle opener in my world; a quarter, a hardwood dowel end, a bic lighter, anything that can be used to pry and bite under the little bottle cap teeth. Heck, you don't even need a wine opener, like this guy.

Milla says, "Multi-port!" *holds up octopus thingy*

Have - but not appropriately sized. The feral tom's here can handle all types of dogs, at least enough to ghost by while pissing and causing havoc. I've seen them move past groups of people and other animals within 10' as if they weren't there. They don't intimidate well.

For anyone that has a cat who enjoys scratching posts, this thing is going over on it's side within the first 30 seconds. Needs a base with the feet screwed to it. Also, there's no ascent except the one jump and no sleeping area. Seems like they are designed (and priced) as art objects, and not cat utility poles.

It was the only way I've gotten rid of feral cats, here. Air soft didn't work, though, because they thought my property was *their* property and would come back when I wasn't here. Not easy to take out with air rifles without a perfect shot, because they are some tough buggers.

Yeah, actually inserted a friend into one of those after a long night of drinking. He had a 1.5 hour commute and would have had to turn around and come back to get in the next day, so stayed in the city.

Either that or he's from Wisconsin.

Ah, dear friend. You need to live in an environment where the salmonella laden poo of the gecko, a distinctively aromatic concoction that could knock at buzzard off a Thai "honey pot" at close range, manifests itself onto your pillow case. And then there might be a slight "adjustment" to the benefit hierarchy. …

I*was* joking, because I've seen the engineers in question do these types of things. However, your explanation is better than I could have done, so kudos to you.