The mythbusters clip about the bus is one of my favorites, because it showed just how hard it is to tip over a bus.

I used to work with truckers, and a LOT of them started out like this.

I used to use high-powered (4KW) lasers at work every day. Now I make 3D models and sit at a desk.

Guess which job I like more.

Yes it will destroy the world in a year, but with Goo™, we will see an increase of 12.6% this quarter!

Right, but they also said “washing clothes”.

Yes, my cotton shirts and pants are the problem. Yup.

I used to work for a company that made precast concrete parts. One of the things they made was the faux stone walls that go around some fancy neighborhoods. They are poured into a mold, and one side of the mold has a plastic insert for the stone pattern. The plastic inserts, which are larger than any piece of plastic in your house, are used to make one wall and then they are tossed. This is one small company, and it’s an example of the plastic waste we don’t see or even think about, while we are told that our clothes are being washed wrong.

Im bored at work, and you’ve given me a mathematical itch to scratch.

A quick search tells me that a liter of gasoline being burned emits 2.3 kg of CO2. Another quick search, after digging through a few weasel words, tells me a liter of jet fuel emits 3.16 kg of CO2 when burned.

I ride a motorcycle (975 Nightster for reference) to work most of the time, and it gets 100 km on 5 liters pretty easily. Riding to work and back is about 40 minutes, and a total distance of about 33 kilometers round trip.

A Learjet 45 Apparently uses 580 liters per hour.

For me to ride to work, I use ~1.65 liters of gasoline which works out to 3.8 kg of CO2.

A single four-hour flight on the aforementioned private jet is 2,320 liters of jet fuel, which is 7,331 kg of CO2. To offset that, I’d need to ride my bicycle or walk to work for 1,929 days or approximately 7 years.

“No, I don’t know who broke your car’s windows. I don’t work for you anymore, stop hassling me.”

I’m going to guess they are terrified and excited and just yelling random cop noises.

I don’t like fishing.

It’s not because “eww, worms” or “eww, fish”. It’s two things. The big thing is, I don’t want to hurt some small animal like a worm or bait fish, just so that I can hurt some other animal by dragging them into an environment where they can’t breathe. Oh, but the humane thing to do is toss them back? Imagine being pulled out of an airlock into the vacuum of space, photographed, measured, and then put back in the airlock? I don’t need to do all of that to some critter just for fun. Which brings me to the second thing about fishing that I don’t like : It’s not fun. It’s boring. It’s so boring. Just stand here and hope a fish eventually bites.

I had to stop playing a recent BG3 save where I was trying a character who sometimes randomly kills people.

It’s fun when you’re a guy who can do a convincing woman’s voice before dropping right back into a gravelly baritone.

I recently tried some dual-color silk filament. Half the filament is one color, half is another color. It makes cool looking parts that are different colors on each side.

Yup!

One of my favorite games makes no mention of the main character’s gender, and the main character is always depicted in an outfit that is a sort of cross between a spacesuit and worker’s coveralls. And it doesn’t make one bit of difference in the game.

Don’t need to breach it, just need to fill the ventilation shafts and block the door shut.

Interesting how effective a strike is.

One of the most satisfying things for me is driving my wife’s little Mirage in the snow. With normal all season tires it does great, with proper snow tires it’s completely unstoppable - that is, until you need to stop.

It turns out that accelrating and stopping a 2,000 pound car on ice and snow is easier than it is with a 4,000 pound vehicle.

“www” for World Wide Web has always bugged me. World Wide Web is three syllables, WWW is nine.

My wife and I tried to plant a vegetable garden last year, it was our second try after learning some things the previous year. We got a lot of veggies out of it and had a lot of fun. We weren’t so interested in saving money, we were more worried about bare shelves at the grocery store. We also have a few chickens.

We are going to make it even better this year.

My new year’s resolution this year is to figure out how to build a generator capable of putting out at least 200w. The trick is, I want something that doesn’t require a manufactured fuel to run. Solar or wind are obvious options, but I have also considered a steam engine or wood gas engine.