forgeweld

Recent Actions

• Commented on Fantastic faux-floor illusions
  The characters large enough to read in the elevator are like, Attention! Human Flesh War Chariot....
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  "It's a poor workman as blames his tools." (Or that blames the hardware that he bought that didn't suit the job. Decline of civilization indeed-blaming everything but the source of the problem-your own inexperience....
• Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
  Yes, we have race problems in the U.S., but to draw an equivalency with China is absurd. They don't think too highly of European races and black people are considered subhuman. I have crouched behind upturned cafe tables with African...
• Commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
  Since agriculture, at least in the U.S., accounts for about 80% of water use and a bunch more goes for industrial uses and he's talking only about domestic water supply, then maybe he's right that there's no absolute crisis there-...
• Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
  Yes, true, but I have seen a lot of gear in Taiwan that is the black on red Nazi style that some people there think is cool to wear. Not. cool....
• Commented on Supreme Master Television
  My inlaws (like 30 of 'em) are all disciples. I've always thought of it as a (personality) cult, but of the most harmless kind. They volunteer to feed the homeless (great veggie Vietnamese food), contribute money to the various charity...
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  Along the same lines, the tin-foil hat people have continued to win the day in Oregon, where fluoride has been kept out of domestic water, saving everyone from 'poison' and dooming Oregon's kids to poor dental health....
• Commented on Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
  This guy is a pro, and uses anvils modified for the purpose with nice, flat bottoms and a milled powder reservoir. He gets a nice vertical flight. Too often, it's done by guys who have had a few pops at...
• Commented on Biofuel Back to the Future
  Yeah, it's a big deal on the great plains. Check this for a little glimpse into the itinerant harvester subculture: http://www.uschi.com/blog.php There's even been a corny (sorry) movie or two made about the life. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080364/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039994/...
• Commented on Biofuel Back to the Future
  Um, there already is a modern analog to the thresher. They're called combines, big diesel punk-y machines that cut and seperate grain from field crops. They are huge, technically marvelous, expensive and often run by contractors who trailer them around...
• Commented on Judge orders woman to keep her SubGenius books under lock and key
  That such a nightmare could be inflicted on someone for trying to have a little harmless fun is unthinkable in a country founded in the desire for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That it has gone on for...
• Commented on Barefoot Burglar, 18, suspected of stealing planes, etc.
  It doesn't work with ink. It's something to do with Pixies....
• Commented on Cydwoq: handmade shoes designed by an LA architect
  Handmade, $300 shoes should last a lot longer than five years. Won't they resole them for you?...
• Commented on Indian farmer's daughter is most bad-ass woman in the world
  If only it had been a zombie attack....
• Commented on My recent money-related posts at Credit.com
  Mark, As an indirect complement to you, when I saw this I went right to credit.com and got a report, just trusting that if you were participating there, that they had to be fair dealers. The free report was very...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  As a Papuan tribesman (okay, not really), my heart aches for all of you forced by your misguided tribal customs to cover regions of your body considered dirty. It must be hell in the hot weather. Maybe someday you will...
• Commented on Musician's open letter, sung to Lily Allen
  @#11 Absolutely. Delightful punning with 'adjust your sales.'...
• Commented on 3D movies are doomed to gimmickhood
  It's not the movie ideas bursting from the breasts of moviemakers, but breasts bursting forth from the shirts of actresses in 3d movies that will save the genre....
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  @MDH-ok, we are friends!...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  After reading a little more on the questionable methods used for sex-testing and how far from medical consensus the experts are on what the results mean, this looks more and more to me like just one more indignity the intersexed...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Wow, surprise, compete in a world sport with rigorous testing regimes and get tested. It's a big, public arena and results of tests are routinely made public. There is plenty of misunderstanding of intersex issues going around, and some ignorance...
• Commented on Kenyan blacksmiths make bellows from cement sacks
  The only blacksmiths that wear eye protection are the ones that really want to keep their sight. You only need to get a metal sliver pulled from your eyeball once to get that religion. But, as with motorcycle helmets, to...
• Commented on Why the Mt. Wilson Observatory was worth saving
  God bless you, Mr. Hubble....
• Commented on Cocaine dealers hurt by recession
  If ever a stimulant program was called for, this is it....
• Commented on Why the Space Shuttle should always lift off at night
  Back@Robulus No,really, I'm saying that manned space exploration is just science theater, driven by dreams of colonisation. I even praised Hubble in my screed. Try to slow down and read more carefully....
• Commented on Why the Space Shuttle should always lift off at night
  Why do this? Because rocket launches are Big! and Bright! and Noisy! Totally cool to watch, and keep public support up for the space program, which is mostly solutions in search of a problem. Everything the shuttle and space station...
• Commented on Photos from trip to Falklands & South Georgia Islands and Antarctica
  Thanks for the pics, even the difficult to view skua attack. Sometimes cuteness must be sacrificed to the natural order. It always amazed me that the British fought a war over the frosty Falkland/Malvinas, and then happily gave away the...
• Commented on The Invisible Kingdom, a book about microbes
  Dance troupe inspired by fungal acrobatics: http://www.pilobolus.com NSF(those who invariably associate human skin with inappropriate sexual content)...
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  She just scooped him up, like he was a complete unknown. I wonder how that felt....
• Commented on Dude lives in spaceship house
  "Dude lives in spaceship house"? It's a story about the architect who designed a wild looking condo building. The headline is written like you looked at the picture accompanying the article and nothing else....