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• Commented on Cantina song from Star Wars on a Chapman Stick
  My introduction to the Chapman Stick: Patrick Stewart in Dune! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwFgSAOBLA...
• Commented on The Mind-Blowing World of Human Chimeras
  #6 - From your description of the esquillax, either you've got a normal rabbit or a rabbit with the neck of a horse. I need pictures, please....
• Commented on Floating rocks
  She's a witch! Burn her!...
• Commented on Vasopressin, pair-bonding and male fidelity
  I think Ted Haggard agrees with Jeff@#3....
• Commented on Merrill Lynch Needs a Dressing Down
  Bank of America formerly owned Charles Schwab & Co., Merrill Lynch's discount competitor. The Schwabbies didn't mix with BofA either -- and both are California companies. My prediction for the merger was that ML isn't ML if owned by BofA:...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  In Lincoln, the college students mostly call convenience stores "UStops" after a local chain that has dominated the market for a few decades. I call them Kwik-E-Marts unless they are named something hilarious like "Kum-n-Go"....
• Commented on Saturn's Children: Stross's robopervy tribute to the late late Heinlein
  Brain Tumor vs. Naturally Pervy Heinlein argument: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was published in 1966, 10 years before tumor time. I am pretty sure that Manny's line marriage is still considered 'pervy', and Wye Knott's sexuality was a...
• Commented on What kind of animal is on this rubber ball?
  It's a street lamp....
• Commented on Bruce Schneier will liveblog election results at Making Light
  #3 - I am taking the day off to vote, anticipating long lines (and a long ballot with confusing initiatives). I was told by an acquaintance that India has a holiday for voting. That seems like a good idea to...
• Commented on Disco for CPR
  Anyone else start hearing Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight if you play the bassline for "Another One Bites the Dust" in your head? Is that safe for CPR?...
• Commented on Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken!
  "I came for SA Day, but I stayed for the UFIA"...
• Commented on One Step Beyond: shrooms and ESP
  Hey you, don't watch that, watch this! This is the mighty mighty monster sound! The nattiest sound around! So if you're coming in off the street, and you're beginning to feel the heat, well listen, buster, you better start to...
• Commented on Cuckoo's Nest hospital to be demolished
  IT Zen connected with this hospital: I was contracting at Oregon's DHR in the mid-'90's, and requested some old hardware to build a proof-of-concept linux server. One of the SA's said he was going to the warehouse, and I was...