Yeah... my 501’s keep getting relegated to work when they get a little too ratty for partying. I still have a some nice French cuffs from when I did work in an office. Nothing quite so casually stylish as showing up with your cuff links only fastening the inside holes. The thing that still surprises me is how many…

White collar... true that. Except that they do enough article on urban cycling and DIY artisan hack du jour that they really should know and serve their overall demographic a little better. But I guess that’s why I’m here to poke them in the sides every so often.

Buying quality is so true.... for my going out clothes. But not for work clothes when you’re a bicycle mechanic, or some other “dirty” job to do. When each day brings a new streak of grease, only a $5 shirt will make you feel like you didn’t just put your money in wood stove. Yes, there’s coveralls, but you’d need at…

Drought vs storms. That makes sense. And that thing about weather and God. I’m not religious anymore (lapsed Catholic) but I can see how only the blindly religious would not see the connection between our civilization and increasingly chaotic weather.

Good point about weather. But wouldn’t that also create discontent with demographies living in or near Tornado Alley? And last I saw, the stereotype of the people living in trailer parks were poor, white and trashy.

You do realize now that some of that glow in the dark was probably smeared on your lips....

Patience. They’re working on that too, what with an official MMIW inquiry and the RCMP commissioner admitting that there are (and he doesn’t want) racists on his police force.

Also legendary but in a different way...

Please rise and give warm welcome....

And that’s why you gift things that you wouldn’t mind having yourself...

Seems to me that this faked up “tradition” could only exist in a culture with a subconscious nostalgic attachment to capital punishment.

Not a follower of the comic (or comics in general) but I don’t think it mere coincidence that Archie makes his “mistake” while dressed as Capt. Kirk.

Eh, chesterfield spuds! Lay off or the Yanks will start to get penniless envy. OTOH, it’s a boot time.

No... I don’t think she has perfect pitch. I’m sure others with more hours of musical training or performance can correct me, but I can hear her correcting a few notes just after delivery. The delay is really minimal, but it’s there. I myself could never get that correction down that small, so it’s no surprise I don’t…

At first I read it as Smart Pot Plant, but then remembered that Monsanto hasn’t yet gone big pharma.

Would it be unreasonable to assume that USAF brass don’t see the irony of B-52s that keep on flying while C-17s are being mothballed?

Nice choice on the Yorkville monitors. Have a pair myself. I’d recommend them to others but I’m fairly sure they’re out of production. Curious, are they horizontal for tradition or aesthetics? Also, can’t tell what the little ones are, but not surprising since I haven’t been anywhere the industry in over a decade. If…

I co-designed a pedal generator for a local eco festival for free, knowing that my name would get out there with the publicity. The mistake was saying yes before the organization had the venue booked, which turned out to be in October. As Murphy would have it, the event was held in the rain and only one local reporter…

So how are these different than the push connectors on outlets and switches? And if not, are the UL tests really not that good?

Not so much about how to conduct audio wars with neighbours, but what to load your weapons with when you have to fight. That said, I prefer thunderous classical and opera with an intro of the THX logo. The last time, at least a decade back, I burned a custom CD with the sequence: THX, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, Orff’s…