You magnificent bastard. +∞.

If the whole shit with Foxx hadn't gone down, we'd've had a sequel. It was the first film, post-Heat that made me sit up and go, "Whoa. Mann is back, baby!" Collateral, too (and best damned use of the Mozambique Technique in film, Mann's signature), though I appreciated Pacino's completely, over-the-top bombastic…

And it still doesn't carry MOAB.

There ... that! What the FUCK is THAT?!!

• "PLASTIC SPOON AND PERHAPS A PENCIL"

THIS; EXACTLY.

"Batter down the snatches" is now my new go-to phrase.

Yes, it's a wonderful drug. Was on Remicade, a decade ago, and then my symptoms went into remission. Came back with a vengeance in '12, among other things. Multiple surgeries, etc. We knew I wouldn't be able to tolerate Humira. But the Cimzia works great. Two 2oo mg/mL prefilled syringes subcutaneously, every 4 weeks.…

David, thank you for this post!

Heh. Fair 'nuff. ;)

"Control" doesn't necessarily mean "save the structure." It means "don't let it spread to other structures." In this case, yes, it was well controlled by the LAFD.

I knew the Rafale had side sticks, but I didn't realize the throttle had so many controls on it, or that it looks so similar to the yoke. Then again, now that I think about it, that would be a more ergonomic throttle design, letting the pilot's hand rest naturally on the metacarpals.

The Rafale is one of the best fighters around, besides the Eurofighter Typhoon. Don't count the French out just because of something that happened over 70 years ago, natch.

Nope. These work in a network, similar to how the E2 Hawkeye AWACS works for the Air Force. These radar ships "see" threats long before the missiles become a tactical threat, forward the information to an Aegis-equipped Arleigh Burke-class DDG, which then shoots a complement of missiles to intercept and destroy the…

Uh, Scotty? Aren't the transporter pads a little ... out of alignment, there?

SBX-1 is officially home-ported at Kuluk Bay, Adak, Alaska, though she's never actually ever been moored there (though $26 million was spent to build a state-of-the-art next-generation mooring quay — Thanks, U.S. tax-payers!). In reality, she basically lives at Pearl. She was originally shipped there aboard the MV Blue…

Hey Marty! Marty! I'll give yinz five bucks if ya stands in front of this while I flip da switch! Five bucks, Mah-tee!