I remember watching the movie THX1138 - all the actors but one (Donald Pleasance, I think) were either blond or gingers. Everyone had their heads shaved and wore white coveralls — anyway, I could never follow the plot because because all I could see were the freckles. If it weren't for the bumps, I probably would…

I read the book at the same age as you and saw the movie when it first came out and could not watch some parts of the movie. Even that poster with Malcolm and his switchblade and his eye still gives me the creeps and yet is strangely compelling.

My first rise is perfect but I can't get the bread to make an acceptable second rise - still damn good bread but...

I vaguely remember a meme floating around about how you could use lasers to read glass bottles that were etched on a lathe. The theory being that guy would be chatting with his neighbor while etching and it would be like an old Edison cylinder recording.

I used this trick to fix a handrail attached to a marble facade - 3 headless matches, some elmer's, and the rail was food for another 10 years. It is a simple compression trick and only takes about 5 minutes.

A local glass shop was selling a mold that you filled with glass frit and put into the microwave - it would fuse the frit into a glass object. We did not have a microwave at the time (1991 or so) - all we had was a kiln so I did not buy or try the m-wave mold.

@Chromeo's name has nothing to do with the band Chromeo: Including moderation

@karlvb: When I worked driller's aid on a seismograph crew, part of my job was assembling the charge. I would screw 3 tubes of blasting 'goo' together, poke a hole in it near an end, and poke a blasting cap into it. With quick twist, I could lower the charge into the hole using the wiring of the cap. The point of…

@Jack: The photocopy allowed me to get a duplicate made in the Paris Consulate after some pickpockets got my fanny pack. The most interesting thing about the process were the questions asked that dig pretty deep into 'low culture' like:

Interesting! my g.friend turned me on to V and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

@SG-17: "The air is moving, it could be alive" - a '70s guy use to carry this sign around Seattle. Had an interesting conversation with him.

@em.: I agree, my brother and I went to a Catholic grade school - it has been 50 years but I am still fighting what the nuns did to my mind. Oops - sorry, too much anger still leaks.

@Jim-Bob: Er, are you redefining success as quitting?

@danhughes: Er, disposable BBQ?? Is that one of those disposable turkey pans with briquets included?

@thedarkerside.to: Oh, look - I have a can of Polish milk you can have. It actually split the label with wonderfulness.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: COSTCO already thought of this - they have/had a bucket of 275 servings of Vegan-ready food-like stuff. It sits in my shed as a stool until the great Seattle e-quake.

In the Manchurian Candidate, Angela Lansbury is only 3 years older than Laurence Harvey but plays his mother

@Yerzriknot: Keep the left out of it - you sure paint with a wide brush.

@geolemon: He was not the father of the Segway, he just bought the company - the father of the Segway is still alive and non-ironically, still inventing stuff.

I consider Cordwainer Smith one of the top 5 sci fi writers of all time. Who else could come up with Lord Loveaduck and c'Mell or the 'robot, rat, and Copt'