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I don't see why he would need a cable spool. His food is ramen noodles and beer. Just eat off his lap.

Schrödinger's cat. Most people (I started to say everybody has heard but, probably not) have heard of Schrödinger's cat. There's a cat in a sealed box, and you don't know whether he's alive or dead until you open the box. But what I just found out today is the cat is not alone in the box. There is also a flask of poison, a geiger counter and a radioactive isotope, along with a spring-loaded hammer. If the geiger counter detects any radiation - and it may or may not detect any radiation, and if it does it might do it within 2 minutes of sealing the box or not do it for a week or two - then the hammer will fall on the flask of poison, releasing the poison which will kill the cat. Now I have always assumed, since the only thing I knew that was in the box was the cat, was that you were wondering whether the cat has starved to death. Or possibly, while starving, gnawed his leg off and bled to death. And here I find out that the question that you're wondering about is whether the cat has been poisoned. That's different. I'm not sure whether that's better or worse than letting him starve to death, but it's definitely different.

I liked the second one much better. The Hip Hop nonsense on the first one I could have done without. I must admit, though, that I kept waiting for that second one to catch fire. The heat gun does make more sense.

I saw a cop shoot a dog with a taser one time. Did not react anything at all like they do on TV shows. That dog dropped like all of his muscles had been disconnected from his brain stem. It was a lucky shot. One probe was in his rib cage and the other was in a foreleg. He was attacking the cop at the time, and was on the dead run. Almost missed.

Okay. If I've got somebody in a chokehold and you shoot him in the chest with a taser, I won't get zapped, because I'm not between the two probes. If you stab him in the belly with one of them cattle prod types, again I won't get zapped. That's good to know. Hopefully I never in that situation - either giving or receiving. But it's good to know. Thank you sir.

That's not what I was expecting that say. I started that sentence - "in the state of Kentucky you can go" - and finished it in my mind - "to hell for making fun of the colonel".

I sent the Citizens committee for the right to keep and bear arms $25 one time. About twice a month for the next 2 years I got a letter asking me to give them more money.

If that's true, then why do they have everyone back away when they zap somebody in the hospital? If they put one paddle on the left rib cage and the other paddle on the right rib cage, they're zapping the heart which is in between the two paddles. But if I happen to be holding the patient's arm or leg I shouldn't get zapped. Right? I'm outside of the circuit path.

It's not just charities. I bought life insurance policies for my grandchildren when they were babies. I get between 3 and 7 mailings a month from that life insurance company wanting me to either buy term insurance for myself or by life insurance for another grandkid. I figure it has to cost at least a dollar per mailing. Printing it, putting it the envelope, running it through the stamper. The cost of the paper in the envelope. It's got to cost about a buck each. And I'm not going to buy anything else from them. Twice a year I get a bill and twice a year I pay the insurance. And that's the only thing I need from them - send me a bill when it's time to pay. Everything else is a waste of their money. And I've wondered occasionally how much cheaper the insurance would be if they weren't spending all that money on mailings that were being thrown in the trash.

That's an interesting thing. There used to be a Tex-Mex place down the road from me called Taco Tex. I ate their frequently. Then they closed, and they were closed for about 6 months. When it reopened it was now a Mexican restaurant (not Tex-Mex) called El Milagro. And a couple months after it opened I went in there for lunch and it was totally strange. Cuz I was the only white guy in this Mexican restaurant. Everybody else was Mexican. I'm used to being in the majority. Being in the minority, anywhere, feels strange. And being "the only" feels really really strange.

Is it a percentage or a flat fee? If it's a flat fee, then it doesn't matter whether the business is earning money or losing money. They still pay the fee. Percentage - yeah I can see why the city would want to know exactly how much money you made last year.

Because I know I have wondered it before. It's about stun guns. Those things that everybody calls a taser but they're not tasers because tasers you shoot. These things you just poke with. In a hospital, if your heart starts screwing up and they bring out the paddles, they always yell CLEAR before they zap you. Because they want to make sure that nobody is touching you (or the bed) so that nobody else gets zapped. You got one of them stun guns and you poke somebody in the belly with it, and somebody else is holding on to him, will the second person also get zapped?

This is a comic. It was drawn in 2009, so I don't know if whatever this is even still exists. Maureen is always on the computer. She's meeting this web friend in person for the first time. Jamie asks Maureen if she knows what Soo Lin looks like, and Maureen says, "sort of. She's always wearing sunglasses in the LJ pics". It turns out that Soo Lin is blind, and that's the joke of the strip. I'm just trying to figure out what LJ is. Or was. I've heard of Facebook and I've heard of My Space and I've heard of Twitter and I've heard of several other social networking sites. But nothing clicks that would be called LJ. Anybody got an idea?

Those look nice. Five and a half inch?

That doesn't matter. Number three just means it was built on the 44 frame. The 44 American, the 44 Russian, the 45 Schofield and the 1881 Double Action were all number threes. In the 1800s frame sizes were given a number. In the 1900s they changed it to a letter - K frame, L frame, N frame, J frame, etc.

Well hell. Now I am thoroughly confused. I just did some research to show you that I was not wrong, and the research showed me that I was wrong. Apparently the Third Model Russian - which is what you have - was also called the New Model Russian. But what's really messing me up is, if the Third Model was also called the New Model, then what the hell is that thing I posted a picture of?

That why Peking became Peping and then Beijing?