IBM’s computer thinks in chocolate and vanilla. Sometimes what it knows is chocolate, sometimes it’s vanilla, sometimes it’s a swirl. Sometimes, though, the swirl melts; then you have to decide if there was more chocolate or more vanilla in that puddle. IBM just hired a fat kid that can tell the difference.

Some fish are indeed assholes. Bowfins are sneaky, but the ultimate jerk fish has to be the bullhead. If you're not familiar, they're a catfish-like thing with nasty, nasty stingers hidden in their whiskers. There's a trick to getting them off the hook - run your hand down the head and grab firmly just behind the…

Due to a number of reasons, I decided that it was time to move on to another car. My DD, a 2011 WRX was getting to be a bit too small for the family, plus my wife refuses to learn to drive stick. Also, I just didn't like driving the car all that much. I decided to go the 'New' route because 2014's were getting good…

This is why I secretly wished I had been hired by FedEx. Boxes don't bitch!

This actually get's used. When you turn over a food item and read the nutritional facts, you are benefiting from this peanut butter. The labs that produce the nutrition labels must calibrate their instrumentation with NIST traceable standards (in this case, the Standard Reference Material peanut butter) in order to…

This is the first year I'm running dedicated winter tires on my car, an S3 with Dunlop Winter Sport 4D's. Although I've had a number of awd drive cars, previous was a Golf R, the difference in everyday winter driving is just staggering. The braking and turning alone are worth it. I don't think I'll ever go back to…

someone sent this to me today;

"Thank God we got that jet!"

"Outkast has more unique words in his lyrics..."

If someone treats their DD like that, with such skill, and ends up with the result, they forfeit their right to be offended.

Actually, no. When you're following as close as 6 ft behind another truck you can't see anything except the back of a truck. You also have latency in when the leading truck brakes before the following one will (with Adaptive Cruise Control). With the DSRC link the trucks accelerate and brake as a group. Look up videos…

No because the makeup of the platoons would be constantly changing, just like the makeup of a large freight train as it travels from state to state, except there are way more trucks and way more potential stops on the road vs on track.

Interesting. Though I'm left wondering what the point of it was? Did someone just go up to the light every night turn it on and start sweeping it around the valley? To what end??

Good timing. Today I spend an hour trying to get a Z-Wave light module working, rewiring it, re-rewiring, reporgramming etc... Then I realized the light fixture did not have a bulb in it. FML.

Actually, I was there for his presentation and several of your points were addressed and backed up with data, not conjecture.

Wow - I AGREE with Scalia, Alito and Thomas? What fucked up world did I wake up in?

Raise your hand if you feel the real story here is that you can buy a Kia with a manual transmission.

The term "soccer" came from England and only lost its popularity in the late 20th century. In the 19th century, there were two types of "football" - rugby football and Association football, which were nicknamed "rug-ger" and "soc-cer." The Yanks got the term from the English; it originated at Oxford…

Australia also calls it Soccer, or so I am told.

And England, jolly ol' England, is the one that coined the term "Soccer" from "Association Football" or whatever it was. They did this to differentiate it from Rugby Football because, yes, it was called Rugby Football.

And the reason American Football is called "football"…

I love the reactions of the guys behind him when the fish knocks him down.