Darth Fluffy

You can do it with old technology.

Our providers provide Internet, cable video, and ip phone. I'm not sure you can get old school phone service any more. We have phones at work, but their all IP connected. Don't have IP water yet.

I've heard similar stories. I hope he brought his rock home. He mus have been USAF. Was he a radar tech?

I've had friends that have been stationed on Shemya. There is a huge space watch phased array radar there. Shemya is essentially a featureless rock in the ocean, with some buildings on it. There are tunnels between the buildings because the wind is biting cold and it is strong, they don''t want people being blow off the island. There is a tradition that when you get reassigned and leave Shemya, you take a rock, take a piece of it with you. The hope is that it will eventually disappear. If they are known for their peaches, they are canned peaches.

We were warm enough for fruit trees to bud and then freeze at night. Happens every year. Probably why North Carolina is not known for it's great peaches.

I believe the term "history buff" is more accurate. And that only because he is presumably not currently in a military. Actual military personnel study battles. It's like getting a certification for IT. Which classes you take and how well you do can count for promotion, in the US military they do, that directly affects your pay grade. Is it nerdy to want to get paid well? What about Patton in North Africa? "Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!" (Literally true, and actually "literal" for a change.) Nerd is one epithet I've never heard applied to Patton.

You beat me to it. I was going to post this in the political thread.

I hear you.

No wonder your child fell asleep.

Fascinating.

Cats weigh more at night, the cool air condenses them. When the sun comes up, they warm up and start to evaporate, so they weigh less.

Remove the most spousal heads?

Endless draws.

Smells Like Nerd Spirit, by Nerdvana

Yes, Energizer Bunny vibrators! When do we start production?

Yes, and the comic arc is addressing that perception. Are you saying Diane is right?

Do you mean George McFly as a teen? At the end of the movie, the timeline has been edited, he still a nerd, just a very successful one. There is a case to be made for "A nerd is someone who is competent at some specialty."

You're saying, he breeds like .. himself?

True, and to be fair, it melts fast here, it's not like we're going to trudge through hip high snow for the next couple of months. 's a matter of fact, last night is already melted on the roads, and those are partially dry; there will be ice tonight, it will be hidden and treacherous, but the roads should not be over all icy. The grassy areas still have some snow cone balls scattered on them, and the shaded cars are still covered. Pretty good, it's officially just below 40 F. It's sunnier than normal. The cold weather is weird like that, precipitates out the humidity and reduces the haze.

Ah, I think you're right. I don't remember any specific toy that didn't have a switch, but I seem to recall needing to remove the batteries to turn something off.

Indeed. Even walking was tricky last night. I could feel loss of traction when I went out to my car to go home. Fortunately my work crew is all working from home Friday; it's good that we can.

We are currently getting three to six inches. That's nothing, right? Nobody has snow tires. They've never heard of snow chains, the stores don't sell them. You can't hardly buy a snow shovel. Few that have lived here all their life know how to drive on snow. Even though it's actually snowing, it's melting when it hits and then freezing. It was just warm enough to not stay snow, now it's slush on the roads which will be ice soon, and wet snow on the cars. It''s heavier than powder, so we may have tree limbs falling and sometimes power lines. Supposed to hit 26 F tonight; next Tuesday is projected to be 62 F, and it will all be melted.

My guess is that since the bunny is styled on a mid 20th century battery powered toy rabbit, if it was a real toy from that era, it would have batteries, a motor, and a switch; no electronics. Reversing the batteries could fail to complete the circuit, but not necessarily; I vaguely recall doing that as a kid, and the motor would still work. Depends on the contact design. The motor would be a cheapie DC motor, and should run backward. So, linkages allowing, the bunny should back step and still be beating the drum. The cam might not work in reverse, if it has a sudden level shift. So " It keeps gniog and gniog and gniog" is a fair description. Old school flashlights should probably work with backward batteries. Anything with electronics will probably not work.

"... and why the h#!! aren't you chasing mice? Do I have to teach you everything?"

'Fixed' that for you.