The washing machines at my apartment complex were recently switched from top loaders to front loaders.

In general, the new washer does an adequate job of cleaning, though probably not as good as the top loader it replaced. It does not do nearly as good a job of rinsing the detergent out of the clothes, however. It also has had problems washing flannel bedsheets, because they became wadded up and triggered the unbalanced load cutoff. I wound up having to wring the sheets out by hand, which was a huge pain.

It definitely fails the "What if everybody did that" test.

Fortunately, after its six seconds are up, the Mosin-Nagant can be used to batter the target to death almost indefinitely.

When it's done well, steampunk is basically historical adventure with a neat sense of pseudo-Victorian fashion.

When it'd done badly, steampunk is like the TGI Friday's of Sci Fi: the same old stuff, with a veneer of antiquity tacked onto it.

There was a story that the miners were sent Sony PSPs to help pass the time.

That would be great if I wanted a set of shelves that I would never ever put anything on. But that kind of defeats the purpose of shelves.

Bah. Van Gogh would have actually skinned himself and you know it.

Savage Chickens is also done on a Post-It Note format.

http://www.savagechickens.com

I instantly thought of the Russian rocker guy Olaf in Kevin Smith's Clerks. "Olaf: Berzerker!"