When I was in 5th grade, my grandfather liked to send me random paper maps. A lot of the ones that came tucked into National Geographics (he had, at the time, a 70-some year uninterrupted collection. He bought two issues, one for reading, one for his little archive, and would mail me the maps out of the ones he…

The on-air memorial tributes always make me really uncomfortable because of the varying amount of applause/noise created for each person. I remember a few years back watching it and there were like 2-3 biggish names in a row, lots of clapping and murmuring, and then some sound mixing guy or something, someone who…

By far the best summary of this whole situation.

~800 orders at $30-70 a piece, so somewhere between $24,000 to 56,000 depending on the ratio of US:International orders. Even the full $56,000 would be a small price to pay to avoid the awful publicity this is generating.

This was the first thing that came to mind when I heard about this.

This is what happens when you hire NFL refs in the off-season as race marshalls. They can't get over that habit of throwing the flag.

You ever wonder if, like... WE'RE the npcs?

If only you'd just left that final little task incomplete.

That box art just gave me chills. Such fucking great memories.

I honestly couldn't tell you for sure, but my understanding is that it's a pretty easy transition from cropdusting to aerial firefighting in 802s, enough so that we bring firegate demos to ag air tradeshows. As far as I know, you just need a commercial license, instrument cert, and certification in the class of…

I was actually just crawling all around an 802F for the first time today filming a training video for the Fire Retardant Dispersal System (GEN II, there's already a GEN I trainer on youtube). We weren't loaded with fluid, but were able to activate the doors at a bunch of different coverage levels and run through the…

As someone who last year got hit by an 84-year old woman that ran a red light, drove through 4 lanes of traffic, hit me and still didn't stop, I strongly agree.

I went from doing nearly 2 hour round trips in usually bad, often horrible traffic each day to 8-14 minutes total (depending on how long stop light cycle is that day) and it was an amazing difference.

Soooooooo why isn't someone going to jail for fraud? If this petition is supposed to have some effect in law, the penalty for tampering with it should be substantial. Or is that only a concern when it's supposedly brown people doing it?

Subset?! How dare you!

It also sounds like "mistakes in pledge levels and rewards" might have factored into them needing to pull the Kickstarter campaign and maybe restart later, and the "hack" is just cover for them to do that while pissing fewer people off. This whole thing smells.

My thought exactly, cooking is easy. Anyone who claims to be unable to cook anything isdoing it willfully. There's really no excuse for not having even a casual understanding of such a basic life skill. Someone who builds racing motors can measure, work with their hands, and safely work around heat. If they can do…

I got nailed by a red light runner earlier this year. She admitted to it at the scene and was very nice and honest about it being her fault. I report the collision to my insurance company and they contact her and her insurance company, and she tells them I ran the red light. He-said, She-said, didn't get any other…

You're a god damn hero. I had been wanting to get my partner an NEX-5T for Xmas but was minutes away from purchasing the a5000 (still a great camera) for the same price as this deal. I just happaned to get distracted and start browsing through my Feedly page and saw this post, couldn't believe it.

You're a god damn hero. I had been wanting to get my partner an NEX-5T for Xmas but was minutes away from…

I was in the process of transferring between my old phone and my new one and in the process got 4 amber alert messages, each one ear-splittingly loud in a quiet office.