One of my favorite examples of Internet snark goes back at least a decade. Amazingly, the page continues to exist today. (I was going to say “thrive,” but that’s an overstatement, because it doesn’t do anything but sit there. To coin a phrase: It do what it do.)

The page is ostensibly a real physics experiment by a college student who was fed up with BS experiments performed with substandard equipment that yielded BS results. (As someone who had his share of college chemistry labs, I can relate. College chemistry lab results are a crock of BS.) (Read more…)

Those damn crazy Trekkies are at it again, making it harder for us more balanced Trekkies to show our faces. (Read more…)

When using a public restroom, after I wash my hands, I need to dry them, right? One can’t go into the world with one’s hands dripping with water. That’s why we’ve got electric hand dryers that blow hot air.

Personally, I prefer paper towels because it seems faster to me (5-10 seconds) than using the hand dryer (20-30 seconds), but sometimes they don’t give you that option, because that would require additional janitorial staff to come in and empty the wastebaskets filled with discarded paper towels. So, we have the hand dryers. You know what I love about hand dryers? Those hieroglyphical instructions that explain how to use them. In case you didn’t know. (Read more…)