devophill

Recent Actions

• Commented on Biofeedback bracelet for stressed daytraders
  I see "EmoBowl" and "designed by Philips" and I come to just one conclusion....
• Commented on 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Life's behind-the-scenes gallery
  That's mostly because Life was not a news magazine. It focused on photography, which is what the cover blurb on the polio vaccine refers to. Also, the vaccine mentioned is probably the first Salk vaccine announced in 1952, so, old...
• Commented on Spectacular slow card-flourishes from Dimitri Arleri
  It's a video post-production effect....
• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  Those are known as "Fumblefingers". As in, "I just auditioned for the Fumblefingers role in a QuikMop ad, I was so horrible I just know I'll get the part."...
• Commented on Millions of dollars worth of Chinese Christmas bongs seized at LA harbor
  They are legal to sell in CA AFAIK, but thy are not legal to import. Buy American!...
• Commented on Portrait of the blogger as a young D&D addict
  Ha! I knew Cory was the kid in the trenchcoat!...
• Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
  I feel bad for her hair....
• Commented on Slo-mo demolition of iconic Philadelphia Drexel smokestack
  I've seen that Fred Dibnah video before, it's great. I love guys like Fred Dibnah and Blaster Bates. "Fred would have had it down almost in its own footprint." Well, Fred's stacks were generally brick, I don't believe the Drexel...
• Commented on Happy Little Drop-and-Give-Me-50
  Anonymous (and anonymous), those quotes indicate MK-B isn't ascribing those hardass traits to Bob Ross, someone else is. In this case it's Bob himself, FTFA: He later told the Orlando Sentinel, “I was the guy who makes you scrub the...
• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  From the description, it sounds like you're describing a grapefruit spoon. Very useful on those ruby reds (and baby blues?)....
• Commented on Aerobics championship video from 1987
  BEST. DEVO. VIDEO. EVAR. Also, confidential to igpajo: you're never not de-evolving. Get used to it. Accept it. You just "totally", I accidentally the whole thing. VICTOR JIMENEZ- The homoeroticity was definitely not unintentional....
• Commented on Panoramic view from a tongue
  That's the first thing I thought of, too. The relevant bit is at about 1:25, but the whole song is awesome....
• Commented on 3D printer jargon in action
  I'm not an expert, but yes. And yes....
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  Googling "energy worker" comes up with industrial labor unions and bullshit Reiki & other "energy healing" type crap. I'm sure folks who want these "alternative" therapies taken seriously love being associated with Otherkin and vampires (sang and psy!)....
• Commented on Video about world's greatest soda pop store
  And he didn't even talk about the beer! Man, I love that place....
• Commented on Old song about emasculating Castro by giving him a crew cut
  I could tell from the title this was a song-poem....
• Commented on Urban archeology: Lost Underworld of Los Angeles
  I thought it looked familiar! That's the Belmont Tunnel! It was closed up a long time ago. Check out this paint chip....
• Commented on Zombie/Scooby Doo mashup illo
  Yay! High five!...
• Commented on German arm wrestler Matthias Schlitte has a gigantic right arm
  If you watch the video, his right thumb, index, and middle fingers are a lot bigger than the other two. His right bicep isn't much bigger than his left! Creepy....
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  I think you meant "hither and yon"....
• Commented on Man finds "missile launcher" in his back-40
  "apreche-- "I'm just curious, if the tube is solid and stupid, how do you tell the missile inside to launch?" Let's figure this one out. The tube WITH the missile weighs thirty pounds. The tube WITHOUT the missile weighs five...
• Commented on Anne Frank on film
  You might find in the future that coherence helps your position....
• Commented on Blowing bubbles with a mouthful of baby shampoo
  Huh. Before I watched the video, I was all set to say that it'd be easier to just put the shampoo on the outside of your lips (that's how I used to do it as a kid.) Of course, that's...
• Commented on Squirrel for dinner
  "kinda reminds me of hassenpfeffer"? Like... rabbit? Or was it cooked in the same manner? I'm (easily) confused....
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: The Gummi Bear Gets It
  I... (wait, "don't cuss"? That's new. Crap.) ...umm, fscking hate Eric Fscking Baum....
• Commented on Little Dog
  They should have put in a coupla loose ones, like they do on "Ninja Warrior"....
• Commented on Mad Men on Sesame Street
  This reminds me of my favorite Monsterpiece Theater, and also that they've done this sort of thing for years....
• Commented on Jack Kirby estate will wrest copyrights back from Disney-Marvel
  #7 Danbanana- No, Kirby designed the costume for the Silver Spider, an unused Otto Binder pitch that later tuned into this guy. I can't imagine the estate would be lumping that one in; they have a much better case with...
• Commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
  #8 cubic.archon - Maybe it's implied? #9 Thalia - Hear, hear! #10 Charlie Stross - "correlation does not imply causation" Hear, hear, again. The quotes from misguided fatherless youth on "where it all went wrong" are informative, I guess, but...
• Commented on Jack Kirby estate will wrest copyrights back from Disney-Marvel
  These articles keep mentioning Spider-Man in such a way that one might think Kirby had something to do with him. I wonder why that is......