I was discussing it with my wife and we finally agreed that it should have some additional capture or delivery mechanism. That could be photo/video or information capture, payload delivery, or something else. Otherwise, it's just something we're watching/driving.

When I was very small, this happened every time that I was in the back of the car and stopped at a light next to a semi-truck. It would start going first and I'd ask my mom why we were going backward.

Scales and Tails

I love this series, but I can't stand Darren Aronofsky. What am I supposed to do?!

He literally puked his guts out.

When did mirrors turn on us?

Rare Earth has magic properties, here.

This is a pretty simple and common sense solution. Combining these two techniques would ease my mind.

I may have read this on Lifehacker, but take pictures of your kids in what they are wearing. Getting separated isn't going to be less nervewracking, but you can show people exactly what they look like.

This has happened to me for the last few nights! I sort of realize it's happening, towards morning

Seriously, though. why would you call it that?

And another one!

I know it looks embarrassing for Virginia, but Farmville is a midsized town, here. Crap, even knowing that, I'm embarrassed.

You are mistaken. None of the roads changes. The forced perspective of the road that starts on the left makes it appear to be parallel to (and thereby the same as) the one that starts in the middle. If the road changed, there would be no illusion. The forced perspective on the road that starts on the right makes…

I'd totally forgotten that! I really enjoyed that aspect. It's probably my favorite of his books. I do agree that it's very contrived, though.

It's sort of like the opposite is true at my house. My son thinks the vegetables from the garden are a treat. If the fruit comed first, he doesn't want the veggies.

Neal Stephenson did this at the beginning of Anathem, as well. It's just sort of laid out as the rules of speculative fiction

These were not private e-mails. They were research property of the University of Virginia.

I saw Michael Mann speak about his book regarding this case. I agree with him, but he is a terrible representative for himself! He says things that can easily be taken out of context and makes stupid jokes that don't help his argument. As a speaker, he is a mess. I'm not a little surprised that people have used…

If you treat the refund as enforced savings, you stand a good chance of coming out ahead, rather than spending the money. Once you shuttle it into a tax-advantaged retirement account, you're coming out way ahead. You run big risks by investing your tax money on your own in the short term, and as many people have…