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Comic Epitaphs from the Very Best Old Graveyards

June 10, 2008 12:57pm

My epitaph is going to be from Gravity's Rainbow:

Death is a debt to nature due,
which I have paid, and so must you.

What did I plant in my vegetable garden?

June 4, 2008 7:10pm

Looks to me like you planted weeds.

Canadian airport security screener confiscates blocks tiny gun-shaped necklace charm

May 29, 2008 10:48am

Man, I wish I were a TSA baggage checker. I would never, ever again have to do any Christmas shopping!

Electric house of the future: 1939's promise

May 15, 2008 9:21am

There's much that is innovative about that house, but looking at the illustration, I notice many, many problems, mostly in the kitchen.

* The refrigerator is too small, and an ergonomic nightmare -- getting food out requires bending way over.

* The sink is on the wrong side of the peninsula.

* Why are the oven and the range not aligned? I guess they don't have to be, being electric and all, but still. Plus, the oven is too far out of the kitchen.

* Also, good luck finding pans that'll fit in that curved oven.

* The range cover frankly baffles me. Presumably, it folds up like that to prevent food from spilling onto the range? But...

-- in order for that to be effective, it would work better to have it fold out on both sides, like a double door.

-- it looks precarious, raising the worry that it'll swing down and on top of a cooking meal.

-- why is a range cover even necessary? An electric range has no pilot light.

* Is that stool so that you can use the peninsula like a breakfast bar? If so, the sink will get in the way.

Getting away from the kitchen:

* You'll never get furniture to fit in that curved living area. The illustrator seems to have noticed this, and populated it with children playing on the floor. (It looks bigger on the floorplan than it does in the drawing -- the perspective is problematic. This may not actually be an issue.)

* I believe that piece of furniture by the entrance is a radio? No one's going to be able to hear it -- it's facing the wrong way for the living area, and it's too far from the kitchen and dining areas. This problem is far worse in the floorplan.

This has been pointless crankery minute.

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