It sure is...

The best part about this is missing from the shortened gif at the top of this article. It’s the look the other Cardinal (or whatever) gives him and the triumphant look the Pope gives to the crowd.

That’s just regular time pay. When you add in overtime, which is another whole racket in itself, the salaries start at $100k and go up to over $150k. Type in “Transit Operator” to this database to see all the employees salaries:

Honestly, I’ve totally glazed over 3-D touch since getting the phone. Now that I see how it can really be used within mail, I think I might actually start to make a dent on that (*15,598 unread messages) notification. It’s worth noting that once you “pop” out a message, you can swipe it to the left or right to mark as…

Don’t any of you rendered people have work to do!?

I think most people will (reluctantly) agree. I think it taps into the same primordial bewilderment we humans get from staring into a campfire, but on a whole different level.

I love these videos, but probably prefer this HD video (from the same source), even though it’s in black & white, for its show of raw destructive power.

We just call them “birds” instead of dinosaurs

The thing I was most excited about was having a battery that would last me all day without needing two or three mid-day charges. I even got the 6s+ for the bigger battery. Sadly, on my first day, my new iPhone died on my bus ride home from work. Granted, I was using it more than my old phone, but I was disappointed to…

I was just thinking the same thing. It provides the added benefit of being able to use the spurious “the mission will fund itself!” rationale to coax the population into “pre”-funding a mission to Mars.

Thanks Fukushima!

Finding microbial life doesn’t negate the Church’s view that “Man is Special”. Believers will just see this as continued evidence of our superiority and uniqueness as the only “intelligent” being out there, that is...until intelligent alien life is found. Even then, my guess is that they will still walk up to that…

Don’t be so sure...they just didn’t have their Twitter feed up yet...

I don’t think “risk averse” is the correct term. Remember, these guys went to the moon relying on a 70lb casio watch computer.

Super impressive, kinda reminds me of this:

“demise of the crocodilians”

Ehrlich is not the only one attacking the Pope’s message:

...but what does it smell like?

Riomaggiori! Oh, how I miss you and your amazing pesto. I spent some wonderful afternoons just floating belly-up in this little cove staring up at this beautiful painted town.