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• Commented on Lasik: is it worth $6000?
  I asked my optometrist why he still wears glasses. He said that a) he is waiting for long term studies to come out, and that b) he does not mind wearing glasses because c) his wife thinks he looks sexy...
• Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
  I'd be worried about noise. A co-worker's neighbor put in a small wind turbine last spring. It's something like this. They're in a rural-ish area, on about two acres. Unfortunately, the neighbor put the turbine as far away from his...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Also, when did libraries start housing graphic novels? They sure didn't when I was a kid, but oh how cool that would've been. Hmmm...may need to head to the local branch after work tonight and see what they have. I...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  I did not realize there were more League of Extraordinary Gentlemen stories available. Cool!...
• Commented on Garden Jawa
  Will there be a matching R2D2 sprinkler? And yes, we do need Garden Jawas in multiple poses. And maybe a sandcrawler-esque planter....
• Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
  @Sam #17: "Or are people not allowed to carry firearms on military bases?" It's up to the base commander, but as a general, and not written, rule, allowing concealed carry on your base is a quick way to end your...
• Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_Five-seven#Controversy : "Controversy The Five-Seven and 5.7x28mm ammunition were the target of brief controversy in the United States in 2004[16] when it was claimed by the Brady Campaign that commercially available SS192 penetrated a Level IIA vest in testing.[22] However,...
• Commented on Vote for the best Sesame Street segments
  Absolutely need some Nope aliens. I don't remember the pinball video, just the song, but that was good. Definitely need the Mahnahmahnah clip. or was that the muppet show? hmmmm I recall loving anything with Cookie Monster or Super Grover....
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  I worked for, well technically I still consult for, a company that takes care of these problems for lenders. My understanding on how this all works is: You get a loan to buy a house from Lender A. You've agreed...
• Commented on Repository of Read-Along Adventure book-and-records
  I had one for The Return of the King. It had stills from the cartoon? I'm not sure if it was technically a Read Along Adventure, but it had a record and a book, and the text if not being...
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  UglyCanuck: "his fears of an excessive sentence under the US Justice system are well-grounded" You're aware that you are talking about 48 days, right? The plea agreement was for 90 days, he served 42 of that and everyone expected the...
• Commented on "Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a county fair escapes
  I fell a little silly. I thought that after someone was found not guilty because of insanity that they went to the mental health place to get umm...sane, and once they were sane then they went to jail for the...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  More info on the incident from the Washington Post article: "When Pontolillo saw Rice, he raised the sword and yelled for his roommates to call police, Guglielmi said. Rice lunged at the student, who backed up against a wall. At...
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  "Insert tab A into slot B at a 90 degree angle." certainly explains some of the crazy ass instructions I've seen in the past. :)...
• Commented on Kidtropolis fantasy kids rooms
  I really like the giant block letter doors for the cabinets in the carousel room. What a cool idea! I think I'll be stealing it when we do up my nephew's room in a few years. My brother in law...
• Commented on Preposterous and nonsensical rap/hip-hop lyrics. Also, bling teeth.
  snacks n shit is too funny! #308, for some reason just really made me laugh out loud. #2 :"The driver on the bus says..." oh man, that's just too silly and now I'm laughing again. Thanks Xeni!...
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  This is supposed to be the police report. Although the cops are denying they leaked it, so it might be false, but I kinda doubt it. Gates never should've gone out on his porch. Notice in the report the officer...
• Commented on Donny and Marie do Star Wars
  Grand Moff Uncle Arthur!...
• Commented on Bubble wrapping death masks
  Why did death masks fall out of style/fashion? Is it because of photography?...
• Commented on Literal Music Videos: Total Eclipse of the Heart
  A-Ha's Take On Me is pretty funny. "That guy is gonna get an ass fulla pipe-wrench!" Journey's Seperate Ways is pretty good, too....
• Commented on BB Video: Miles O'Brien on Technology Questions in The Air France Disaster
  I was wondering why they don't have a GPS thingy on every plane so that they can track them easily. Maybe they do, but I haven't heard anything about it in the news, and it seems that if they could...
• Commented on Tiananmen Square, + 20
  What happened to the guy in the white shirt?...
• Commented on Chickens killed by poisonous snake bites taken off menu
  Why? Is this a cultural thing? Like the snake killing the chicken imbues the chicken with some snake essence or something that then I get from eating said chicken? A buddy of mine went to China and said he ran...
• Commented on Gesturing helps you think
  I gesture a lot when I talk. A lot. It is apparently scary for some people, especially the two handed arms akimbo with props gestures, but whatever. I have noticed that when I don't I don't speak as well, but...
• Commented on Rotting WWII junk in the jungles of Peleliu
  "With The Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge is his memoir of his time in the US Marines in the Pacific Theater of WWII, and quite a bit of the book is about his time on Peleliu. It's an excellent first...
• Favorited Video of man firing 18 rounds from a pistol in 3 seconds on Boing Boing
• Commented on Utterly Nuts, but Sane Enough to Execute in Texas
  What I think #50 meant was that if a crazy person commits a crime like murder, and who would be killed by the state if he's sane for committing that crime, why grant him a reprieve if he is insane?...
• Commented on DIY sex machine injury
  Why would they leave a blade inside it? I guess maybe they didn't have the skills to fabricate a blank blade with no teeth, but seems like I'd want to at least sand off or file of the teeth on...
• Commented on Solution to AIG bonuses: a 90% tax on people who receive them
  Article 1 section nine clause three: “No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”...
• Commented on Sen. Grassley to AIG execs: quit or commit ritual suicide
  So is Grassley, or any other politician, gonna give back, I guess to the treasury?, the money that AIG gave him this past year? I saw earlier he got about $26k from them in 2007-2008 alone. And if AIG bought...