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• Commented on Three floors of candy in NYC
  This place is high on my list of "ways to fuck with my sister via her kids". Afternoon at the playgrounds in Central Park? Naaaaaah, lets go to the candy store instead, yeah? And then you can play Halo whilst...
• Commented on Al Franken draws map of the US
  #10 - YOU can do this? I mean, hey, kudos if you can (and I don't doubt it), but I'm sure I could go round up 10 adults who can't. 11 if you count me, and I'm not only a...
• Commented on Film decors by the Brothers Quay
  #13 - We used to make, er, tobacco pipes from antlers to sell at Bread & Puppet. Yeah, hot cut antler smells like sperm. Yeah, I was a teenage neohippie. Meanwhile, the show is incredible beyond words. I always loved...
• Commented on Love in 2D
  Is it wrong of me to find this completely, unforgivably daft? I mean, yes, there is a vast gulf between Japanese & American culture, but this....I dunno. Stupid stupid. "I've experienced so many amazing things because of her..."? Because of...
• Commented on Video Gallery: The Humanimal Kingdom
  The creepy-ness is OK. That I'm finding these hot as well is a little disturbed....
• Commented on Google Announces full-scale Operating System: ChromeOS is here
  I already hate "the cloud". I was at the airport and some dude in a cheap suit (that the Gentleman's Wearhouse probably told him was very sharp & sure to impress) leaned back from his laptop and informed his travel...
• Commented on PES animations: Human Skateboard and Fireworks
  I remember seeing the Coinstar ads & thinking "Wow, they ripped off PES". I glad he ripped himself off....
• Commented on Trailer: <em>2012: It's a Disaster!</em>
  The REAL trailer is so lame. If it was going to half this cool, I'd be more excited. I hope it comes out in time to see it at the Northfield Drive-In....
• Commented on Desperate-to-leave LinkedIn users rename accounts "delete delete delete"
  Driving a Yugo is like owning a Zune....
• Commented on Video: Propellerheads "Record" audio suite
  If I didn't already use Live, this would be far more interesting. And it is pretty interesting already. Meanwhile, drop hundreds of dollars on Reason, it is well worth it - if nothing else you save thousands on analog synths...
• Commented on People getting stuck on freshly tarred street
  @ DELICATEFLOWER I just re-read your comment in the voice of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. Something about gently passive aggressive pedantry gets me every time....
• Commented on Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
  Most of these things are either within a few 10's of feet from me or in the store room downstairs. I think they finally unplugged the waxer last Octover when they took the light tables out to make room in...
• Commented on Mysterious Youtube Videos of Famous Dancer
  What, he invented dancing like a late-80's CGI figure? The flat stained glass knight from Young Sherlock Holmes moved better than that....
• Commented on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! season three DVD out soon
  Their DVD packages get weirder on each iteration. I like that. Now think about your dad. I wanna meet that dad....
• Commented on Kodachrome finally taken away
  Hahahaha no, but seriously NANUQ: there's 130 rolls in a minifridge in my parents basement. I shall mete it out slowly until it is gone. Partly because it is a bitch to get it processed. This sort of heartwrenching hoardery...
• Commented on Odd photo of the week
  The monkey is real, the fellow with the belt issue is fiberglass & enamel....
• Commented on More on YouTube phenom Justin, aka "Tsimfuckis" aka "Chick3n Little"
  Jack is a complete bummer at parties, I would guess....
• Commented on More on YouTube phenom Justin, aka "Tsimfuckis" aka "Chick3n Little"
  Thanks, Xeni, I was wondering what this was doing here. To me, he's just another foul mouthed kid on youtube. However, "I'm interested in the story about the person in the videos. " sums up a pretty good reason. It's...
• Commented on Ural-T, entry-level Russian sidecar motorcycle
  I own a 65 BMW, so I'm cynical about maintenance on everything else. Especially cheap Russian copies of my bike (which, yeah, is a 65, but it's not seriously different than a WWII one). Still the about.com review made me...
• Commented on Collection of airline logos
  Why do you have to be over 45 to appreciate all that PanAm signifies? Then again, the one PanAm flight I took was near the end & pretty well stripped down....
• Commented on Shop Class as Soulcraft
  Good god, how I hated "Zen & the art of...". It felt like cheap dimestore philosophy & a crap narrative. Or it just reminded me too much of my dad, dragging us out into the middle of nowhere & promptly...
• Commented on Steampunk guitar amp
  I'm going to hazard a guess that Thorzdad is no fun at parties. Meanwhile, I have a Leslie rotating speaker (actually just a rotating styrene block) I ripped out of an old Hammond organ that I wasn't sure what to...
• Commented on Glenn Beck guest passes out -- best Keyboard Cat play-off yet?
  Many networks would respectfully cut to commercial, but not Fox News! I can hear the director now: "Camera 2, get me a shot of him on the floor! Come on, chop chop! OK, take camera 2!"...
• Commented on Joel Spolsky on the perfect electronics store
  Fry's is OK if you're on the west coast. There's no Fry's in NYC, therefore B&H beats 'em. Oh who am I trying to kid, B&H just beat Fry's anyway....
• Commented on The new world: Hand Circus/ngmoco's <em>Rolando 2</em> in motion
  Oh hot damn, that looks a'ight. I love the 1st one....
• Commented on Face Transplant Recipient Speaks Out
  But of COURSE she'll take him back....all the easier for payback....
• Commented on Cinco de Mayo Time-Lapse by Andrew Curtis
  That looks suspiciously like Tom McCall Waterfront Park....
• Commented on Mister Jalopy: "$upport Independent Business and Reject the Fakers"
  Ms. Hart appears to do a relatively good volume of business with her patterns - within our DIY world, she has a certain well-knownedness. I'd be curious if she is feeling any significant pinch from this....
• Commented on Video: 1,000 frames per second
  Y'know, I don't own a computer that runs over 1.2 ghz. The eldest is just a smear over 450 mhz. They're all macs, so they have half decent (if old-ish) video cards. And they all play online video well. Youtube,...
• Commented on Monasteries as hotels
  We stayed at a converted convent in Gyor, Hungary when I was a kid. I think it was luxurious, at least by just-after-Communism Hungarian standards. It was nice, anyway, even though it felt haunted....