I was all the great robot actors. Actingbot 0.8! Thesb-O-mat! David Duchovny!

Sean Connery is not an actor, he’s a movie star.

Yesh, I am a British shecret agent. Bond, Jamesh Bond.

Yesh, I am a Shoviet Shubmarine captain. my name is Ramiush. Marco Ramiush.

My understanding is the Slate is kind of body-around-frame.

Not exactly a ladder chassis but I don’t know if you can call it a unibody.

So, one of several reasons America didn’t really adopt induction cooktops en masse until recently has been cookware. There were like 50 years there of trendy cookware, none of which is suitable for induction stoves. Just off the top of my head, you had:

• Pyrex, Borosilicate glass
• Corningware, ceramic
• Revereware, stainless steel
• Calphalon, anodized aluminum
• Various brands of solid copper pans
• Various brands of teflon-coated steel
• Weird gimmicky allegedly nonstick shit

It’s only been within the last couple decades that most off the shelf cookware has had an iron plate bonded to the bottom to make them induction compatible regardless of their interior surfaces. This, along with the consistently low price of natural gas in the United States, has kept gas stoves relevant.

The dust buster van. Them things used to be EVERYWHERE, I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen one in person. Did they all get cash for klunkered?

That’s something I encountered working in rapid prototyping. Your brain can imagine things passing through each other. No, Inspector Gadget’s helicopter thing wouldn’t fit in his hat. Sorry.

Any relation to Brainfuck?

Kirk is the first cadet to make Captain before graduating.

The actors deserved a better movie.

I’ve called Star Trek 2009 a big budget fanfic because it has all of the ignorance of one. It feels like it was put together by a series of “I want to have a scene where this happens because it’ll be cool.” Kirk is born during a space battle. He drives a Corvette off a cliff. The Kobiashi Maru test from Wrath of Kahn was cool, let’s do that. Let’s see him roll around in bed with a green chick. You ever notice how Uhura doesn’t seem to have a first name?

The whole damn thing felt less like “We have a story to tell about these characters” and more “YES! We got the license, we can legally say ‘phaser’.”

No it doesn’t.

Super Famicom controller, Japanese market

Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PAL market

Super Nintendo Entertainmen System, NTSC market

Identical except plastic colors and the YX buttons on the North American market are concave on top. Fun fact, the face buttons are keyed to their holes. You can’t take the controller apart and mix up the buttons, because they have little tabs that fit in little slots. Even on the NTSC controller, the X button and the Y button are physically different because they used (almost all) the same molds.

The banning of CFCs due to their environmental impacts, retooling the aerosol and refrigerant industries, is what it looks like when we have a functioning world society.

There are adults now who were born after that and don’t remember a time when we could behave that way, so they have every right to be cynical.

This right here is why I still use FreeCAD.

Most of my actual design work is done in the spreadsheet workbench. If I had to, I could design furniture in LibreOffice Calc. But, I use the entire drafting process as a sanity check, to make sure I didn’t make any mistakes in order of operations.

A cat can lie down and stand up at the same time.

It’s…sort of not a question of easy vs hard. Why would anyone make a hard programming language?

It’s more about picking a language that is suitable for what you want to do with it.

The thing about Python is, it’s a smartass. Treat it like a smartass and it’ll get shit done, because someone who is a smartass already wrote what you want to do in C, you just have to call it by name.

Most use propane as a propellant now.

Name me another chemical engineer that could be argued did more harm. I don’t think all of Monsanto with agent orange and Roundup has done more than the TEL and CFC fuckup.

Where’s he buried? How long is the line to piss on his headstone?

Not when all governments have been captured by oil tycoons it isn’t.

I was taught metric basically alongside imperial. I remember a depiction of a ruler with inches and centimeters in my first grade math book. In high school, I would go outside in the morning and build a house in inches, then I’d go inside and do chemistry labs in milligrams.

In flight school…some of this I’d like to wring some necks over…altitude and runway length is given in feet, temperature in centigrade, humidity as dewpoint in centigrade, pressures in inches of mercury, visibility in statute miles, overland distance in nautical miles, speed in knots, weight in pounds, gasoline volume in gallons. Oh, gasoline is sold by the gallon, jet-A is sold by the pound.

Nintendo’s buttons are arranged differently than Xbox. From left to right, top to bottom, Xbox goes XY AB, Nintendo goes YX BA.