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• Commented on Spraying hot water at -29.4C
  Oh yah sure you betcha. When I came back to MN over the holiday, I knew I was home when every one lit up their cellphones when we landed and said, "hey dere, I'm here ya know". After being in...
• Commented on TED2009 Speaker Program
  Tom - thank you for your response. I will wait patiently for the videos as long as I can get the gist of them via other sources. Perhaps some sort of eagerness scale can be implemented to allow others to...
• Commented on TED2009 Speaker Program
  If TED is so influential and so important, why do they feel the need to release their speaker videos at a snail's pace? I realize it's a privilege to attend and TED itself is comprised of an elite group of...
• Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
  Nice follow through: http://www.palinaspresident.us/...
• Commented on Fired emergency response exec now at Homeland Security
  U R FIRD!...
• Commented on Chuck E. Cheese Rock-afire robots in MGMT music video
  Showbiz Pizza, yo! I know it's easy to confuse your animatronic pizza chain bands....
• Commented on Uncombable Hair Syndrome
  A tin of Murray's pomade would clear that condition right up. Make it combable, but then ummovable....
• Commented on Flat panel TV is an ancient console set from Flatland
  Can we just call it cool and not give it a hipster DB name?...
• Commented on Cuisipro invents the better ice cream scoop
  Too perfect! There's no art to it - no personality. Would be great for a triple scoop though....
• Commented on Cosmonauts urinating on a bus
  Yer tellin' me that a trouser zipper is all that protects them from the rigors of space?...
• Commented on Kirk/Spock cartoon video / Pulp's "Common People" mashup
  Everyone's right! It's from the Ben Folds' produced William Shatner album Has Been featuring a cover of Pulp's Common People with Joe Jackson on back up vocals. Geez....
• Commented on Videos of the worst pop songs ever
  Y'all just hate good music. You can have your Bell Biv Devoes and Vampire Weekends. I'm going with Sammy Johns and the rest of my Time Life AM Gold classics....
• Commented on Children's book about plastic surgery
  My mom is saggy and wrinkly and grey. Whenever I see her she's still my beautiful mommy....
• Commented on Atomic age wallpaper
  I just saw their ad in Atomic Ranch magazine and thought the same thing as #1. Thanks for posting this because it would have taken me another month to finally forget enough times to remember to do this....
• Commented on Oldest (nearly!) TV sign-off, featuring Henry Mancini
  Are there any stations that still sign off, leaving you to bathe in the after glow of fuzz?...
• Commented on Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness
  I feel completely vindicated that comics are not included. Proves what I've always believed - gaming and comics do not mix....
• Commented on Vegetarian survival kit
  I'll be eating the vegetarians to get my protein source....
• Commented on MTV declares music industry "broken" -- and backs it up
  If MTV declared the reality show dead, I might be prone to hearing them out. Music...not so much....
• Commented on Chicago's fake vomit industralists
  It's a Minkman!...
• Commented on Best Buy apologizes to blogger for nastygram
  Is "regret" legalese for sorry? That sounds more like "we're embarrassed we were found out."...
• Commented on 2007 New Yorker cartoon similar to 1984 Far Side cartoon
  @Eliot: I was really looking forward to seeing identical ads comparing Rosa Parks and the VT shootings. Dang....
• Commented on 2007 New Yorker cartoon similar to 1984 Far Side cartoon
  It's like I heard in ad school all the time - there are no original ideas left....