That reminds me of something my flight instructor told me as a teenager. If you lose your engine at night, aim for a dark patch, because lights mean structures. Set up for an emergency landing as you usually would, and as you get down to short final altitude, turn your landing light on. If you don’t like what you see, turn it back off.

You can become a private pilot with an airplane or helicopter rating in 40 hours. 250 is for commercial pilots.

And this shit does happen.

If it’s marketed to trained pilots, it’s a “helicopter.” If it’s being marketed to untrained pilots, it’s a “flying car.”

She also has a lasso, so she’s not the only one in her stories to get tied up.

Or the end boss of Half Life

You mean constantly calling for his imprisonment and murder?

it depends on how it’s stored, and a lot of the problems will come from the cork rather than the wine.

I don’t think anything you just said is correct.

I cannot find anything about a tape format called “LP-2000” that came out in 1970.

Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren’t nearly as successful as Sony’s Betamax format which lost the format war to…

VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita…and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.

The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it’s U-Matic.

There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.

They did later reduce the Ti-84 Silver to 48K. Still…idiots.

The Ti-83 Plus Silver Edition and early models of the Ti-84 Plus Silver Edition had 128K of RAM, upgraded from the typical 28 or 48 that the 83 Plus or 84 Plus had. But the additional RAM was impossible to use as the OS had not been altered to address it.

The Leatherman Skeletool is currently available in several varieties, including the long-running standard model with an unfinished stainless steel body, a chunk of aluminum in the handle, and a 420HC semi-serrated blade, and the Skeletool CX variant with…whatever the black coating is made of, a carbon fiber chunk in the handle, and a 154CM plain blade.

When the model was first introduced, the base model had a plain blade, and the CX had a semi-serrated blade. This was swapped, as they realized first time knife buyers were more likely to see the semi-serration as a value-add, while more serious knife guys would prefer a plain blade. So you might find a very old Skeletool with a plain 420HC blade, or an old CX with a semi-serrated 154CM blade.

It’s okay, he doesn’t have a flashlight.

In my house, the toilet seat and lid are down when not in use. Because I have a cat and she’s the kind of idiot that will jump into the toilet and then track toilet water into my bed.

As the days go by

Water flowing underground

Removed by mod

Does it? I’m aware of, but do not personally get, the humiliation kink.

It’s a Borzoi. Narrow dog with a white coat and a hose nose.

What’s a drag king act? A woman in a tuxedo singing Sinatra songs?

There was an early episode of House where a clinic segment had a white chick in hemp clothing bring her baby in for a runny nose, proudly proclaimed that they “weren’t vaccinating.” House goes on about baby coffins. I did not see that issue slop so hard to the right.