Cory@14

Should I install a cistern for unused sippee cup water to use on watering the houseplants?

Well, not for sippee cup water--but an old-fashioned rain barrel can be an excellent source of water for non-edible plants. (If you're planning to use the water for something you're going to eat, you need to check the roofing materials to ensure there's no toxic chemicals that might leach out.) Not to mention cutting back on the water bill.

It just seems like 11...

Isn't that the point behind Sierra Nevada pale ale? I would never start the evening with one--maybe a brown ale like Newcastle to gently introduce my tastebuds to the evening's drink. But later on, a touch more hops is nice.

Blue@42

Also, is this a bad time to mention that 'CP' is shorthand for something rather unsavory to do with the internet and children?

Oh, no! You mean they're putting Captain Planet up on YouTube now?

Enochrewt@4

Gatorade doesn't need to be stored cold. It's served cold because it tastes better cold. So, energy-wise, he's paying the cost of cooling the drink down either way.

Next point, while I agree about the non-degrading part, I don't see any viable low-cost, low-weight alternative for commercial sales.

As for your last point--several things. First off, it may not be lack of planning but rather circumstances that means the homemixed gatorade isn't a viable choice. For example, I wouldn't tote bulk gatorade around on a business trip on the off chance I'd have free time for some prolonged exersize. Secondly, sometimes spontaneity is a good thing. I've been on bike rides where my planned 30 minute trip has turned into a hour one-way; if I didn't stop and buy a bottle, I'd hit the wall before I was halfway home.

Hassan-I-Sabbah@50, you're in good company for associating rabbits with birds.

In English, we occasionally add a descriptive word to indicate the class of object being counted. For example, one sheet of paper.

The Japanese use these descriptive words all the time when counting. For example, thin long things like bottles or pencils use hon; flat things like sheets of paper use mai.

In the case of wa, it is used for counting birds and rabbits. It's supposedly a way to get around a religious prohibition on eating mammals--they're considered edible since rabbits hop around like birds and have long, floppy ears.

No, no, no!

It's Mr. Boddy who was killed. Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, and the rest of the colorful cast are the suspects. So you'd need an appropriate miniature of Mr. Boddy being killed by each weapon to put into the room once the right combination has been discovered.

Brits can substitute Cluedo and Dr. Black as appropriate.

Alan@8

The reason for that is "duct tape" is from a mishearing of "duck tape", as in tape made from duck canvas. It was never indended to be used on ductwork in the first place.

Takuan@6

Yes it is.

Arkizzle@84

It's easy to say everyday people don't draw to remember anymore, but that isn't a discussion of Art, it's a discussion of technology.

To go back to post 79, to which my comment was aimed.

The advent of the camera obliterated for the layperson the motive for a study of drawing and painting.

As far as live music goes...I can't help but feel that on a per capita level, there's nowhere near as much live music as there was before you could purchase recordings.

Antinous@81

I'm not enough of a historian to truly argue the point, but if it were only the well-off who were doing it--well, those aren't the people where the wives were going out to work. On the other hand, I'm rich enough to afford a phalanx of servants; one's a box that sits in the kitchen to handle dishes and a couple that sit in the basement to handle laundry. But I'm not seeing a resurgence of home music get-togethers.

Arkizzle@79

Close but no cigar. Drumming didn't become obsolete when drum machines came along...but playing music as a major form of after-dinner recreation died off when records became available.

In much the same way, sketching things to remember them has been mainly replaced by photography. Yes, some people still sketch, but most take snapshots while on holiday or to record the everyday events of life.

French Blue@6

So you're saying the Lotus Lounge Restaurant, Phulwari Restaurant & Sami Cafe, Shiva Resaurant, Modern Vision Guest House, Dolphin Restaurant, Rashmi Guest House, and all those other advertisment all over those pictures were all done by imperialistic westerners? If he's crapping all over the local religious structures, he's just following the local custom.

Takuan@23

A number of the comments here (15, 16, 21, 25,26) are from Firesign theatre routines. The "Arnie's All Beef Halves" was a commerical during the "Howl of the Wolf Movie" , which came with a disclaimer at the end of "No deliveries after curfew in sectors N and R." At which point the person watching the movie complains that they never deliver up in the hills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Crush_That_Dwarf,_Hand_Me_the_Pliers

(Any mangling of the routine is my memory's fault.)

Damn. They never come up into the hills.

June@2.

It's not arbitrary points, but rather the streets that form (most of) the lines forming the pentagram. You have to have avenues cutting across the normal grid pattern in order to get this.

Takuan@13

Quick cut from a paper by Bickel, Brinkley, and White. (http://www.law.stetson.edu/lawrev/abstracts/PDF/33-1Bickel.pdf)

The principle is addressed in Morris v. Krauszer’s Food Stores, Inc., which upheld a jury award of damages when the plaintiff’s estate introduced expert testimony that, considering the foreseeability of robbery, the defendant should have increased security measures, including the installation of video cameras.

One thing I'm not clear on about the Shank case is why she should double-dip? Why should both WalMart and GEM Transportation (the people actually at fault) pay for the same accident?

Why should WalMart suffer when GEM Transportation caused the injury? GEM is the party who should be paying for her care. It's not WalMart's fault if Shank didn't recover the appropriate amount from GEM Transportation.

Which, incidentally, hasn't been shown--in the article, it sounds like WalMart is trying to recover $469K in medical expenses, while the Shanks recieved $736K after legal fees. There's now supposedly only $200K to $300K left. If WalMart paid the original bills, where did $500K go?

Sproing3@26. Strangely enough, the US court system seems to agree with you.

"To instruct the jury that a 'lewd or dissolute' act is one which is morally 'loose,' or 'lawless,' or 'foul' piles additional uncertainty upon the already vague words of the statute. In short, vague statutory language is not rendered more precise by defining it in terms of synonyms of equal or greater uncertainty." Pryor v. Municipal Court for Los Angeles, 25 Cal. 3d 238, 249, 599 P. 2d 636, 642 (1979).

One of my coworkers used a "low-tech" version of this; he plugged a spare mouse into an unused USB port of the guy in the next cube and ran it under the cube wall. The cord was just long enough so the mouse could move about on the ground. Every so often--once, maybe twice a week--he would jostle the mouse with his foot. Then the rest of the office did their best to remain straight-faced while listening the rants about "It did it again! The mouse just went crazy!"

Unfortunately, the jig was up when the victim acquired a new ergonomic keyboard. When he went behind the computer to make the swap, he noticed the extra USB cord and traced it.

Actually, the US Navy experimented with having the biplanes carried by the dirigible. They would "land" by matching speed and hooking onto a bar lowered from the dirigible.

@2

The Konami code is up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. (and start/select as needed.)

@1

Mine is going "Where's the gap? Why aren't the completed lines disappearing?"

Although I suppose you could nibble the offeding bits off...

@45

I've been considering HokeySpokes for a bit now. How do you like them? Are they worth the extra weight? Easy to put on/take off? Do they actually look good at speed? At low speeds?

Just from looking at the picture, it took me the longest time to see the intended "human" face. Instead, I would see a girl on the fish's back. (Follow the top and bottom edges of the right fin for the top and bottom of her dress, while the top of the left fin points towards her eyes.)