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A shirt, some lens filters, a light for the kitchen, season seven of Monk, some candy, and world peace.
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I'm pretty sure they're all listening to Def Leppard, and they're finally getting it. You know, the Armageddon thing.
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The best Pepero Day since the twentieth century!
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A cordless soldering iron, a variable capacitor, an inductor, a resistor multipack, a really nice toroidal transformer, and a couple good opamp chips. You're gonna LOVE THEM!!!
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My hair? Okay, you asked for it.
I'm white. I'm educated. I'm protestant-Christian. I'm male. As such, i am the precise demographic in this country with the majority of power. I reject this racist system, and wear my hair in dreadlocks as my symbol of that.
Plus, um... well, the hairstyle in my profile pic is just plain silly, ridiculous and absurd. Awesome. -
Alone by myself? Anything at all. The point is that it's what i want. Read. Watch a movie. Build something. Draw. Write. Fix something. Play a game on the computer. Doesn't even matter.
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This is how to clean a room.
1) Put on some good, loud music.
2) Put everything that's out of place on the floor.
3) Sweep everything into a giant pile in the middle of the area.
4) Get a laundry basket, trash bag, file folder, and storage box. Sit down near the pile, and sort.
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Takes one to know one. Plus, i'm not weird. At least not on purpose. If i am weird, it's because the world hasn't caught up to me yet.
Aaahgh never mind. I'm weird because i've spent my whole life explaining my weird name to everyone i meet. -
Oh, so glad you asked. Obviously the supreme reigning drivetrain in the universe is Subaru's turbocharged flat four with its AWD system. So the rest of the question is simply what to put that in?
I'd build a tube frame (chrome-moly, obviously) with really strong suspension and really careful design. Kind of like the buggies you see racing in the Baja 2000. I imagine a car with good handling on the street -- low center of gravity and well controlled roll, and yet extremely capable off-road. Like, being able to smash into a curb at speed without frame damage.
Then, I'd put on some cool minimalist bodywork, just enough to protect, but not hide, the machinery.
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Really? Architecture?
Okay, no modern building can match the absurd, ostentatious arrogant excess of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. It's as tall as TWO Empire State Buildings. For decades, the tallest building contest was really nit-picky, with one building claiming the tallest total height, one claiming the highest structural component, and one claiming the highest occupied floor. Whatevs, the Burj Khalifa blows all these records away. By dozens of meters.
I love the Sydney Opera House, 'cause it's unconventional and interesting looking. But i know almost nothing about it.
Um, bridges were built, thus they're technically buildings. I LOVE the Millau Viaduct. Amazing. A bridge that spans a giant valley?
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Turn the music up. Or dip the whole shoe in melted Vaseline.
For real, i bet if you could figure out which pieces were squeaking, you could inject some high quality glue into there, clamp it with a big C-clamp, and fix the squeak. I recommend Goop or Shoe-Goo. Use a toothpick or something -- it's really thick. -
Heh -- no, i'm not gay. But i'm pretty sure a LOT of people think i am, which is okay with me. And, um, plenty of gay men who're staying in the closet, using their wife/family to hide their sexuality.
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We're going to go to parent-teacher-conferences, and then dinner and a movie? An art house flick at the cheap theater, if it looks good. A relaxed meal at a comfortable restaurant. Not imaginative, but the point is to enjoy the company, not the activities, and Karen and i don't get enough real quality relaxing time together.
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Mmm, food. My favorite meat would be fish. A nice white fish is delectable. I can't even believe swordfish exists, it's SO AMAZING. I had monkfish one time and nearly was overcome by the deliciousness.
Other meats: i'm not picky, but just try to have it not smell like something off. I've cooked ground beef at work which smells like vomit or barnyard. I've eaten chicken breast which has a tinge of liver flavor. And let's try to stay away from too much connective tissues. Unless we're talking ribs. Mmm, ribs.
Oh wow, let me stop waxing eloquent here, and wax brief. Brief wax?
Fresh bread, bagels, pretzels, naan. Basically any fermented dough product. Brie, edam, gouda, gorgonzola, Cambazola, colby, etc. etc... i like cheese. Rice. Pasta. Lentils. Beans. Most soups.
...i'm forgetting what "favorite" means, so i'll try one last time.
Fish.
Fresh bread.
Cheese.
Broccoli, carrots, artichokes, green beans.
Dessert? Tiramisu. Straight up favorite. -
Five favorite insects? Only five? OH the STRESS of having to CHOOSE!
5th: Cicada. Because they're really big, yet completely calm and gentle. They have really interesting looking faces, with wide set eyes and a friendly looking, um, nose kind of thing between their eyes and above their sucking mouthparts. Also, they've got a fascinating life cycle. This was the hardest one to decide, because i had to exclude all the other insects, like the butterfly (beautiful!), paper wasps (intelligent!), bumble bees (cute!), strepsiptera (look it up), peanut bug (weird), ant (industrious), cricket (again, cute), grasshopper (fun) etc etc etc.
4th favorite: Earwig.
Earwigs are one of the most reviled insects of all. But they're kind of awesome. They're cute if you look close enough, they're curious in spite of being really stupid, they're clean, and they take care of their young. That's very rare. And what an underdog, right? I always root for the underdog.
3rd most esteemed: Firefly
Okay people, these insects make their butts glow. How cool is that? These are also very gentle. Kind, almost. Also, if you let one crawl on you, you can keep it from flying away just by poking it when it unfurls its wings. They seem to need a second for their pre-flight checks, so they'll lift their outer wings (the hard shell ones) and unfurl their flying wings, and then, a fraction of a second later launch themselves. If you touch them during this process, they get all confused and have to start over.
Second awesomest: Praying Mantis
The praying mantis is so cool. They've got camouflage, which can be whimsically ornate and unbelievably beautiful. They're quicker than ninjas. They seem really intelligent, with the way they'll swivel their heads to watch you. They've got cool triangular heads.
Fave of ALL!!!: Dragonfly
Okay, i like agile flying things. Dragonflies qualify. Their layout, with four large wings held perpendicular to their bodies, large eyes (and thus large brains) with a muscular thorax and the long stabilizing tail was perfected extremely early in the evolution of these insects. There's fossils of yard-wide dragonflies. And they're nearly identical to some modern examples. Besides the monstrous size...
Okay, dragonflies hunt in the daytime, while flying. They catch sight of their prey, and approach from directly behind, swooping and jogging back and forth when their prey turns, to keep themselves right behind. This way, the fly they're chasing ignores their presence, since they just see a spot getting bigger, but not moving. I was curious about this, and found a fly sitting somewhere and slowly moved a pen in from behind, and actually poked the fly, who was then quite surprised and flew away.
They're FAST. They're AGILE. If you throw a pebble at a dragonfly, sometimes they'll chase it. They're just really, really cool.
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My wives? I'm pretty sure i only have the one. I'll ask her later if she remembers any others.
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If you have electric heat (and not a heat pump), then absolutely. Electricity and heat are both measured in watts. A 100 watt light bulb will put out identical heat to a 100 watt electric heater or a powerful desktop computer. So the heat outputs are identical.
If you have a gas or fuel oil heater, your heat will almost certainly be cheaper than electricity. Heat pumps seemingly defy physics by producing more watts of heat than they use in electricity, but that's because they're moving heat from one place to the other.
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Well played, good sir.
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