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• Commented on Bulletproof "tactical" corset
  IIRC, there was something about the Czar's family (the ladies at least) being initially saved from the firing squad by their corset-like bodices. 'Course, it helps that they were jewel-encrusted, but as I understood it, kinda like motorcycle racing suits,...
• Commented on Your photo on a shower curtain
  Too bad about the rights to the image. Perhaps they could provide a licensed library too? I'd go all in for one of "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife".. Just odd like that....
• Commented on Untitled 2
  Lengthy novella on my personal views on this subject with supporting examples from my life, (all as an unreliable narrator, so who am I kidding,) far too extensive and boring to even warrant a response of "TLTR"....
• Commented on Amy Walker's "21 Accents" video
  I think it's strange and fun that to really pull off an accent sometimes you also really have to get into the headspace of someone from the region. My bro-in-law does a *lot* of theater (mostly G&S) and teaches music...
• Commented on Review: Anti Monkey Butt Powder [verdict: works]
  Cornstarch, at least for the non-allergic, is a better substitute for talc. *Not* corn meal, tho. Itchy. About the Vaseline for the pro bikers... ew. Squishy underwear (or lack thereof) for all eternity....
• Commented on Virgin America: Now, with Absinthe.
  pps re: Le Torment Vert: srsly gorgeous bottle tho. Why can't I just append this to my last post? Kthxbai....
• Commented on Virgin America: Now, with Absinthe.
  The first "absinthe" I had was that LTV dreck, on my birfday last year. The restaurant here in Oregon did the Czech flame job on the neon-aqua synth-sinthe, and all I got was licorice liqueur. Blech! Now I know better....
• Favorited The Sidewinder and the Snow-Motor on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Favorited Joker ski-mask is menacing and geeky on Boing Boing
• Favorited D20 flails on Boing Boing
• Favorited Untitled 1 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Best Blog Posts of 2008? on Boing Boing
• Commented on Batteries, recharged by the Sun
  NiMH get hot too, I think that's usually what NiMH chargers sense to stop charging. But perhaps I lie... Also, if one ignores the rotten cultural slur for a moment, this reminds me of one of those Polish Inventions jokes...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  Looking at your route west from KC, I can't help but notice that Google Maps is helping you nicely dodge some of the best landscape on this continent. Too far south for Yellowstone, too far north for the American speciality:...
• Commented on Wooden geared window-blinds
  @10 Puh-lease. This is Woodpunk. Or possibly Dutch....
• Commented on Wooden geared window-blinds
  Funny, I went the opposite, pretty much feeling like I know how the gears are cut, I wanted the rest of the guts! For the gears, get a primer from HowStuffWorks. There's some math involved, but not dire. Then you...
• Commented on Augmented reality experiment from gamemaker Introversion
  One of the key conceptual things is demonstrated by accident in the sample globe vid. Notice that at just past 10 seconds, the user picks up the camera and moves too fast, blurring the reference image, and for a moment...
• Commented on Magenta isn't a real color?
  Consider the following: 1) We're discussing the theory of color, which personally, like ROUSes, I don't believe they exist, and; 2) I am slightly tipsy. Ergo: This is all just a pigment of my fermentation! More seriously, photons don't have...
• Commented on Fifth-wave feminist Barbie welcomes us to Toy Fair
  Apparently that's no longer Ken's decision. Have you seen under his kit, lately? She's got his junk in a box somewhere....
• Commented on Edul Young's heartbreakingly awesome <em>Beauty and the Beast</em> LEGO music box
  Mastercraft. m(._.)m...
• Commented on Shimano's new electric bicycle derailleur feted on professional circuit
  They're trying pretty hard to steal bike mechanics' thunder. Tuning in that front derailleur so it doesn't rub is an arcane art....
• Commented on Toy Fair: LEGO Creator Pumper
  Pimp Pumper, pal! *memories* -=-=-=-=- Joel, we're almost in the same woods... You ever travel in Rogue Valley?...
• Commented on Toy Fair: :5 Stadium tests your sense of time
  I know those Zen gardens in-a-box. I got one. They're cute, but the little box tray you put the sand in is Teh Crap. Love the tiny rake, tho. I was taking CNC classes at the time, so I whipped...
• Commented on Toy Fair: LEGO Space Police are back!
  @3 *Wince*...
• Commented on Toy Fair: LEGO Indy Flying Wing
  Seconded! Or Eighth'd! (← that's one fucked-up word to spell!) My first set was a tiny 2-truck fire station. Just a pile o' red bricks to start with. I thought an antenna was a plunger, but couldn't find the loo!...
• Commented on Phantom Corsair from 1938
  Nice sled. Also a big fan of the Morgan Aero. And for old-school gangsters with repulsor-lift tech, Gen. Grievous has a pimp ride too....
• Commented on Reactions to Shootings and Stabbings
  He fucking bounced!! I thought a Dead Cat Bounce (stock market reference) was a funny mental image, but actually seeing a Dead Osakan Bounce is orders of magnitude better! (No animals, and only a couple people, were harmed in the...
• Commented on Reactions to Shootings and Stabbings
  Twelve Gods, but that guy at 1:48 is awesome! That's one of the best prat-falls I've ever seen! Fell like a disemvoweled sack of spuds! Just thinking about it I'm still ROFLing.. =D...
• Commented on Steampunk sculpture
  I like this new CATFOTFIC acronym. Who originated it? Someone hereabouts, yeah? Owing to a certain synonym to 'Complain', I propose that come Oct. 31 it be revamped (*rimshot!*) into BATFOTFIC. =P Anyways, killer clock, Art! Who is that haunting...
• Commented on The Isophone: Conference calls meet sensory deprivation
  Looks kinky. *approval*...