Jay Acker

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• Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
  Using a better qualifier than "very" is indeed a very common copy editing correction and does not fall under creative disagreement. It can often just be removed if it doesn't add anything to the sentence, like in the memo and...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  I bike to and from work in a town - Yuma, AZ - that is decidedly not bicycle friendly. Yes I feel I have a right to the road, and yes I take care to follow the traffic rules like...
• Commented on Documentary about crazy cat ladies
  The key issue for these people who "want to take care of the cats" is to make sure that the ones you take in, you get spayed or neutered. Its the people that feed the cats and then let them...
• Commented on Arizona Republic quotes psychics as experts on the future
  I must say I am extremely disappointed in the direction that these comments have taken. But maybe I'm just hurt that you all would argue about homeopathay vs. science than comment on what I thought was important :(...
• Commented on Arizona Republic quotes psychics as experts on the future
  Cory, I think you are missing the bigger point by focusing your criticism of the Arizona Republic's choice to talk to psychics. Jack Shafer over at Slate.com occasionally runs a Bogus Trend Story of the Week on his Press Box...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  Sorry I couldn't stay away. I watched this dip guy video and was amazed... But then I watched the William Kamkwamba video from another post and was amazed (He's the kid who built a windmill in his African village)... Then...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  Am I the only one that saw the tease "worst Beatles cover ever", looked at the screen shot and was convinced he was going to be treated to Newt Gingrich letting loose at some Republican fundraiser. As for the tobacco...
• Commented on Coffee-and-mad-science party video
  It took me more than a minute to get what the commenter was alluding too with the Anathem reference. BTW, I'd probably be the guy who would take his fresh roasted cup of coffee and promptly add a bucket load...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  First off, when did we decide that simple kitchen activities such as peeling, chopping and boiling were too difficult for anyone but a Top Chef, or maybe an Iron Chef. Its not hard to peel a potato, that Shamwow guy...
• Commented on More on court ruling against Ashcroft and "preventative detention" under Bush administration
  There are more important and obviously disturbing points, but I just want to say that if you are using a law to achieve something other than what it was originally intended... Then you are doing it wrong. Please try again....
• Commented on Rachel Maddow interviews Tom Ridge on politicizing terror threat alerts
  I am a gay man and I realize she is a gay woman, yet I have an honest crush on her. Is she easy on the eyes? Yes. Is she funny and entertaining? Oh yes. But the main reason I...
• Commented on Automatic chicken coop door
  You know who else had people raising animals and livestock to feed their families during times of war. That's right, Hitler and the Nazis! And did you know there is a vegetable garden in our very own White House, a...
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  You know this is just the type of thing that would have me frothing at the mouth with impotent rage...but somehow it doesn't. I'm perfectly okay with this, probably because I don't watch or think much of the Today show....
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  I always thought George W. Bush was way more analogous to Richard Nixon than Adolf Hitler. The only man in modern history who can even be mentioned in the same breadth as Hitler is Stalin, and I'm afraid even he...
• Commented on It's not easy being a tamale street vendor in Los Angeles
  Just a comment on the culinary, but as a Yuman right on the border I know Mexican food and the tamale isn't one of my favorites, nor does it seem to be a favorite of the locals. Here it's all...
• Commented on Guestbloggers: Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky
  My initial response was "meh", that is until I saw the giant joystick and well, "welcome aboard"....
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  I dunno, its not the worst outfit in the world....
• Commented on Time-lapse sim of Earth's land mass movement
  Just imagine all that stuff happened in 6,000 years!!...
• Commented on Mutton Busting: children riding terrified sheep.
  This is great fun, and not nearly the most dangerous activity at a rodeo. Might I submit an activity called "suicide poker" or "cowboy poker" in which participants sit around a table and see who can be the last one...
• Commented on Guerrilla swimming pools made from dumpsters
  I know I'm stupid, but my first thought was, "why do gorilla's need swimming pools" and " can't they escape."...
• Commented on Compuserve shuts down
  Compuwhat, I had never heard of this company, website....
• Commented on Video of Walt Disney World's Obamabot
  Now I know why Obama doesn't have a birth certificate. Not only is he not human, he's not even alive!!!...
• Commented on Chinese iPhone knock-off looks just like an iPhone, barely works
  excuse my ignorance, but I didn't get the snark of the guy showing off the accessories. Are those not the accesories that come with an Iphone, because not all of us are well versed in what comprises an iphone, the...
• Commented on Japanese cops hassling foreigners on the street for urine drug tests
  Kudos on the great use of the word testes, uhm I mean testees....
• Commented on Video: vintage Dungeons & Dragons commercial
  Speaking of dice throwing nerd fun, I've finally got sucked into the excitement of Risk. I never actually played Dungeons and Dragons, well except for the computer game Baldur's Gate which isn't really the same thing....
• Commented on Colorado passes law to allow rainwater harvesting
  Uhm yeah, I haven't washed my car in years too, and I now I know it was because I am extremely water thrifty!...
• Commented on Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA
  I'm shocked at the complete absence of self awareness....
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  Did someone say TEA BAGGING! I'M IN, RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE! Seriously though in my own, very uneducated two cents is that of course the United States Healthcare system is the most expensive and bloated because its profits is what keeps...
• Commented on Ghosts reacting violently to holy water
  I loved that the ghost actually said "Eee Yow" at the 3:40 mark, haven't seen that outside of old timey comic books....
• Commented on HOWTO ask good skeptical questions
  My best friend believes in almost every pseudo science crap that comes down the pike. And his favorite show to this day is Unsolved Mysteries. Among his favorites are: Bigfoot - they can't find some planes that crashed decades ago,...