Abelard Lindsay

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• Commented on Paul A Young's Adventures With Chocolate: chocopornoholic enchanting cookbook
  Just guessing, could the reason the US edition is different be metric vs. imperial measurements?...
• Commented on Void Watch
  The problem with a Void Watch is that eventually people get carried away with their noise experiments and trash the radio station. Next thing you know, the University administration passes a rule that only students can be DJs or work...
• Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
  They aren't going to do it to you either. You overestimate their numbers. I think you have a better chance of winning the lottery. I guess I should just get over it already, right? I mean sure, someone shot a...
• Commented on Y2K ten years later
  In 1999 I was working in the computer room in a Home Depot store. I got a smallish box from home office marked "Y2K kit." It was mostly paper forms we could use for store operations in case the systems...
• Commented on List of books read by backpackers
  The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe...
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  Long live the New Flesh ---> Long live the new Flesh And, although: You know, I hate to ask, but are "friends" electric? devolves, the first round of translation returns the awesome: You heard me, I hate "friends" What is...
• Commented on Ethics of robots that kill
  And, I'm just guessing, that robots are pretty unlikely to use mass rape as a tactic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnvOGO387ag "Oh, look! There's a rape machine - I'd go outside if he'd look the other way. You wouldn't believe the things they do."...
• Commented on Utopian/Dystopian science fiction film festival at San Francisco museum
  "I hate outside! I hate it!"...
• Commented on IT versus users: a war that everyone loses
  Hey,if we're fantasizing, here's mine: Zuzu takes over a company whose lead salesperson is Sue, who's been at it for decades, can't use a computer to save her life, and can sell pants to a mermaid. He fires her and...
• Commented on IT versus users: a war that everyone loses
  Frankly, if a particular surgeon can save my life, I don't care if he (or she) can read or write or use a computer or communicates via a series of grunts and eructations. He's a surgeon. That's his JOB....
• Commented on NBC Stars Whimper About Jon Stewart's Skewering of CNBC
  I'll tell you what you won't see on youtube - a reporter asking Joe Scarborough to explain the dead intern found in his congressional office....
• Commented on Detroit and the future of America
  Manufacturing dead in America? Has your industry moved to countries where slave labor is normal? Do something else, anything else. Mop floors, fix cars, learn to be a male nurse, male OBGYN, ambulance driver (please don't drink and drive as...
• Commented on Documentary about Nine Inch Nails and industrial music
  I can follow your argument up until you placing LPD in the fray. LPD is not nor ever has been even remotely "Industrial". They're straight up "Prog". The closest thing to "industrial" Ka-Spel has done is a two-minute stretch in...
• Commented on The Curious Case of Forrest Gump
  THIS is the best Gump rip-off of all time: http://tinyurl.com/82tzr4...
• Commented on Toothpick engineering from Popular Science, Feb 1940
  Noen, Naw, his legacy lives on in the form of Chicago's own Wayne Kusy...
• Commented on Peak Population: when will population growth stop, why, and how?
  I don't understand people here arguing against ZPG/NPG. We all agree that population is increasing, so it seems to me you would have to believe one of two outcomes: 1) We can sustain an infinite number of humans. 2) The...
• Commented on Miniature cattle - family pets that provide milk
  We just signed up this spring with a CSA farm, and now we get raw milk once a week fresh from the cow. The difference between real milk and the thin, watery crap they sell in stores is astounding. Also,...
• Commented on Forlorn bananas of London
  London? I thought the Forlorn Bananas were from Chicago. I could've sworn I saw them play Dreamerz once......
• Commented on DHS border policy: we can steal anything from you, read all your data, and disclose it to anyone we want
  There is an even greater danger to this - let's say they take my laptop for an unspecified period of time. Let's say I'm properly paranoid and have wiped the hard drive multiple times and installed a clean, fresh OS....
• Commented on Great opening lines from sf
  Not sf, I know, but from a great sf writer: "It was the day my grandmother exploded." (Iain Banks, The Crow Road)...
• Commented on CNN reporter says bad things about the TSA, gets hassled every time he flies
  Trombones Sound Awesome! (Apropos of nothing, I just think trombones sound awesome.)...
• Commented on Where the Hell is Matt: a silly dance in 42 countries that will make you grin like a fool
  Atomium FTW!...
• Commented on Rocket stoves use twigs to cook food quickly, efficiently
  For my money (and it does require lots of it to install), nothing beats a masonry heater. Mark Twain agrees: http://www.timelyconstruction.com/MasonryHeaters/MarkTwain.htm...
• Commented on Boogie Nights Star Wars light saber mashup
  It is, after all, Full Frontal Friday....
• Commented on Drive-in movie theater gallery
  Many years ago when I was in college, they would project movies on the side of the union building. One time it was Urgh! A Music War, and right in the middle of The Cramps doing Tear It Up, some...
• Commented on Ghost in a bottle
  @Carl: LA cigar? Too tragical!...
• Commented on Surveillance sign's Freudian slip
  "Images are being recorded for the purpose of 'sexual titillation' and 'masturbation' and may be shared with third parties."...
• Commented on Officer tries in vain to catch people fleeing from van
  Noen, I'll see your Ole/Sven jokes and raise you an Eino & Toivo: Eino, seeing Toivo across the river: "Hey Toivo, what are you doing over there?" Toivo: "I'm tryin' to get to the other side" Eino: "But you are...
• Commented on Videos of the worst pop songs ever
  Sure, the Terry Jacks version of "Seasons in the Sun" is awful, but the original is sublime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oahZaAtyKqs Oh, and "American Pie" by Don McLean is the worst song ever....
• Commented on Paleo LED watches from the pre-cheezy era
  I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea....