The bigger question is whether the masses will learn to spell Blu-ray properly before the format dies.

We'll have to agree to disagree. You don't become taller by practicing hoops, but you'll get better at getting the ball in the basket.

Interesting perspective. However I do think that practicing for a few hours will improve spatial perception.

Doesn't have to be an expensive car either. Almost daily I see bang-head-on-desk driver antics and I can't help but wonder why these people don't go out to a parking lot and practice low-speed maneuvers like parking for a few hours.

Summer storms here are pretty intense and even by those standards the rain and hail that day was epic. See here.

If you liked Not Always Right you'll probably enjoy WhiteWhine. The snarky comments from the admin are priceless.

A lot of the stories are actually from the UK and Australia. Morons are a universal constant.

"There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots." - John Ringo

It's not about never. It's about the waiter not coming back for another ten minutes. Yes this happens. Not with a good waiter, but they aren't all good.

I hear you. Even my children complain about other people's children when we go out to eat. :)

Not Always Right is the mother lode for these kinds of stories.

Love this line:

The difference being that this hypothetical person is my friend, and as such I might expect him to give me a nice gift. That's what friends do.

Litfiba are great. One of the few Italian bands I still like from when I was a kid.

Sims can be very accurate. Yes, there are discrepancies, but the human mind is very good at filling in the blanks.

Simulators can be surprisingly real, and the human mind is good at filling in the rest. I've been in a couple of full motion flight simulators. If I hadn't known it was a sim, I doubt I could have distinguished it from the real thing.

A millisecond is one thousandth of a second.

No, I'm sorry bro, because you are incorrect.

I know that a millisecond is a thousandth of a second. I never mentioned a millisecond. I mentioned microseconds and centiseconds.

I'd have been very impressed with his stopwatch and superhuman reflexes frankly. :)