Recent content by Horatio Balderdash

So this guy is born a long time ago (1890, he's even older than Yankee!). He started out as a farmer, but ended up a chemical engineer specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes. Wrote some campy science fiction in his spare time that ended up being pretty novel and popular back in the day...

TheRecord - Man shocked by arrest after daughter draws picture of... Cliffs: 4 year old at school draws picture of a guy holding a handgun, says it's her Dad, and he shoots "bad guys and monsters" Dad goes to pick kids up from school Dad gets arrested "for possession of a firearm", cuffed...

Out of fucking nowhere I am reminded of an SF short story I read long ago. The Game of Rat and Dragon by Cordwainer Smith. Written in 1955, depicts humans and cats teaming up to fight space dragons. Short but sweet and a little racy, I guess, for 1955. Or maybe it's just the nostalgia...

If you had to give up all the knives you owned but one, which one would you keep? I bought this about 4 years ago with the philosophy that one good knife was worth a drawer full of cheap knives... and it's true. I can do anything from carve a turkey to circumcise a mouse with this bad boy.

Watch them have fun with remote cameras sent to spy on them. I hope they don't go extinct.

What happens when you take a phrase and bounce it back and forth between English and Japanese via Google Translate until the English comes back the same twice in a row? Smarter than George Bush The trick is to hyperventilate... This one drove it mental... lol hip replacement? He who go to bed...

Wheelchair dude is coming to the Perimeter Institute, which is funded by those rich-ass RIM founders. Local sweetness. Here is the MC Hawking in full effect: Somehow I doubt I will see him chilling at the Heuther, but if I do see him around town, how shall I greet him? PS I will be...

What is best to drink beer from? Glass? Great, but you have to find a clean glass. Can? Warms up too fast, plus teh aluminum makes you dum. Good in tight spaces and for shotgunning though -- but that brings us right back to dum again. Bottle? I mostly drink beer from bottles. Twist offs...

for Cube. Super Deluxe - Cube The fun cannot be halted!

Comparing automotive penises is getting old. Let's compare optical amplifiers. I've got a pair of cheapie Tasco 10x50 binocs and a Meade 4.5 inch reflector with a wooden Equitorial mount (no motor, and I can't figure out how to properly align the bitch) and 2 aftermarket Plossl eyepieces...

Here's a contender I smell a dummy, too.

That is the sound of inevitability... Toyota will overtake GM as the world's largest auto producer. GM is in a world of hurt. When your main competitor is concerned about backlash from your nosedive, you know you've got problems.

Looking at some of these old threads makes me wonder. Is there a count of the number of TW bannages? If it's not mind-numbingly large, could we do a TW banned role call? It's one view down memory lane...

Morbid's oft-viewed movie thread got me to wondering. What's the one novel that you've re-read more times than any other? For me, I'd have to say "The Courts Of Chaos" by Roger Zelazny. It's the fifth and final book in the original Amber Chronicles, and it was an incredible finale to the set...

So how many folks have grown weary of the current PC gaming landscape and have installed and played a classic for a bit? I had some spare time today and I installed Battlezone for old time's sake. DX5/6 blew chunks, so it's running under software rendering. The game still rocks, chunky pixels...