Somewhere in the not-recent past I remember an article about engineers at a cookout, figuring out the best way to get from "light the charcoal" to "nice bed of coals" in the shortest possible time interval. One can imagine what ensued.

Now for the holiday season, we have some folks from NASA demonstrating Four Crazy Ways to Cook Your Turkey Using ( Read more... )

@JacksonPearce on Twitter: Every time Romney says "step one," I can't help but think "cut a hole in the box." #debate2012

To which I add... Step 2: Then a miracle occurs

Step 3: Profit!

Thanks (?) to a picture that I saw on montuos's G+ feed... here are some UNofficial names of fairly well-known songs. How many of them do you recognize, and do you have any others to contribute to the list ( Read more... )

If I start doing posts like this on a more frequent basis I'll create a specific list for it. But this is the very first post in the category so alla youse get to see it. This is really mostly for me to record what I've done so I can recreate it later is desired/needed -- or to avoid things that didn't work so well ( Read more... )

...because seanan_mcguire needed to see this. The poster says about Australia: "It's like the Defcon 1 of stress for me." Check out the actual post for more (it's not locked).

Today's xkcd. Especially with the mouseover text.

(Yes, I am a math and computer geek, why do you ask?)

Check out What Your Favorite ’80s Band Says About You, by John Peck in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Lots of amusing bits; different ones will appeal to different categories of my friends.

"Weird Al" Yankovic's new album ALpocalypse has been out for two weeks now. Here are links to this promo and that promo which are not as new but are still ( Read more... )

Many of my friends will have seen, or at least been pointed to, this already. For the rest of you, since it's kinda cool, I'm providing the link here.

So seanan_mcguire, writing as Mira Grant, has this Newsflesh trilogy. The first book, Feed, came out last year and is nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The second book, Deadline, came out last ( Read more... )

This post is rated "Adult Concepts" for the use of power tools ( Read more... )

Just about 4 hours to first pitch in New York and here in the FedroSplat.

And yes, the following link is incredibly obvious, but it's still my favorite Opening Day song of all time. "Put me in coach, I'm ready to play..."