Well, Abloy controls all the key blanks and only authorized dealers have access to them (and there aren't that many authorized dealers.) The machines they use to cut the keys don't work on a copy-based system like the ones in the hardware store do. You have a numerically-defined key profile that they work from, and…

Or, you could just use your house key. Abloy is, arguably, the most secure lockset you can buy. It has a secure key profile so nobody besides you can have copies made, and it's a one-key model, so your house key can open any lock in their lineup (from furniture locks, padlocks, deadbolts, etc.)

People who know how to breaststroke properly ;)

Chrysler building ;)

That looks decidedly uncomfortable.

Wow, this brings back so many memories! My dad used to have a giant stack of his favorite hardback sci-fi novels on the coffee table when I was a little kid. I used to fish out his copy of Footfall and stare at the cover, making up stories in my head to explain the cover art. I tried to read it a couple of times (I…

I once saw with my own eyes* a group of enraged people roll a car onto its roof and set it on fire, all because the owner had blocked them in by parking across the opening to a parking lot.

Seconded! I've often thought about getting one of those.

A good tip for using heat-shrink tubing with a hair dryer is to just grab a spoon out of the silverware drawer, and as you heat it, hold the spoon behind the heat-shrink. It reflects a bunch of the heat back onto the tubing, making it shrink faster and more evenly. I've used this trick for years and it works every…

No, no. We're done here because it seems we can't have a rational conversation (not because your witty and snarky questions have me stymied, as apparently you think they do.) You're painting all gun owners with a broad brush and making hyperbolic attacks. I don't think it will help your cause.

Ah. I think we're done here.

I'm not sure we can have a productive discussion when you label all people who carry concealed as both "...paranoid and psychotic," but I'd like to know something, and I'm being quite honest, here:

I'm not sure we can have a productive discussion when you label all people who carry concealed as both "...paranoid and psychotic," but I'd like to know something, and I'm being quite honest, here:

Not respect for the gun. Respect for the type of person who responsibly carries a gun. There's a big difference.

Well, now, I'm not sure that's a fair assumption. I might give the following example:

An armed society is a polite society. Some of the most cordial people I've ever known were people who carried concealed weapons every day.

Was anyone else having a hard time watching that video when the shooter was pointing the muzzle(s) at his face? I know it was empty, I know the slide was locked back, but dear god, I just wanted him to point it at the floor.

Beaver. Dick. Park.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

I've actually had sloth once when I was living in Ecuador. Frankly, it was awful.