I came up with the perfect sound years ago, but ev makers have ignored my pleas: the sound of horse hooves clopping. At slow speeds it the gentle clip-clop that brings us back to the days before the horseless carriage. As you speed up to a light canter there’s the sound of the horse breathing. And On the freeway,…

I wish...

Well, over at the indie festival, my film will be showing. Not sure if I can announce it publicly yet. (Which is hy I’m not saying the title.) But it’s freaking cool!

Amateur! You wrap the whole pile of skin around a stick, dunk it in corn dog batter, and deep fry it!

For the last decade or so I’ve been the co-historian for a park in Oakland called Children’s Fairyland, which was the first park dedicated to families with little children. Parks before it were zoos or pleasure gardens or carnivals. Fairyland inspired family-friendly parks across the country, including Disneyland, as…

I found my step-mothers name but with a fraudulent address. Unfortunately she’s a Rebublican and probably won’t report it.

Edelweiss is a “Good Guys” song. She should sing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” from Cabaret.

And you’re eating your cheeseburgers wrong too.

Ok, for all us uncool elderly types out there, there are some oddball characters in the shrug. What keys are they under? And it seems like I’ve seen a whole series of unusual punctuation. Any idea where to find them al? I’m on a Mac & iPad.. Thanks!

If he was just doing it for shits & giggles I might have taken it seriously. But he was getting “kilo-joule” sciencey like he knew what he was doing. Next time I want to see him lean over the vat as he lowers a frozen turkey into molten aluminum.

Let’s take it for granted that Roy Moore doesn’t give a rats ass for anyone but himself. He has some math worked out: if he gets out of the race or shows any weakness, his chance of being senator is zero. If he admits to nothing and keeps in the race his chance of being a senator is 40% or so, and he’ll have a…

I want to figure out how the turning vs. non-turning wheels on the conjoined vehicles would work. On the in-line configuration, turning a 90 degree corner you’d need something flexibly centered instead of locked bumper-to bumper, yes? And what about the two-across or 4x4 configuration? I think there’s a reason semis,…

This was my first thought. A single wheel between uneven loads? Why not put a wheel under each corner? Even a small one could help if cornering Pandovia’s tight mountain passes.

No problems here, and I agree I like the multiple uses of the trackpad. I just wish my pencil on iPad Pro worked as an input tablet.

I heard a terrible rumor that the real porg they had on-set was found dead in its trailer from a drug overdose. They had to finish the film with a cgi mask overlayed on a Guinea pig with similar facial features.

Y’know, there is a terrible part of me that wants it to launch in 2020 when I have some hope science will mean something to America again. I know that’s terrible & selfish. Data is a gift to the world.

Five movies with Farmer Giles of Ham and a team of female elf assassins.

When BECs were discovered I read the best explanation. In quantum mechanics you can know a particle’s velocity or location. The more you know about one, the less you know about the other. If you take a bunch of atoms and cool them, so their velocity approaches zero, then their location kind of smears out, and they…

IIRC Braniac 5 went a bit Geordie La Forge on her, creating a Supergirl robot to date. But I did like their dynamic, and he remains one of my favorite legionnaires.

So that’s why they were always watching lava lamps in The Village.