... but it does make a great instant pizza crust.

Methinks hijinks are afoot!

I'm convinced. The chain of events is beyond unlikely unless some higher power is punishing The Empire for its sins.

This could be my dream house! Indoor rifle range. Storerooms behind storerooms. Indoor auto shop. Offices below bedrooms that open into a 10,000 laboratory / demonstration space with an observation platform that runs the full width.

Of course, the bathrooms and kitchens need to be completely redone.

Any chance to promote Robert Heinlein.

I wonder if anyone has tried using a non-explosive demolition agent. They are also called chemical demolition or soundless demolition agents. Here is a scholarly link on the subject, but many commercial sites have demonstrations. Pretty neat, actually.

http://rebar.ecn.purdue.edu/ect/links/technologies/civil/soundche.aspx

They missed at least a couple: "Bigfoot" is a trans-dimensional being" and "Bigfoot is the last of the Neanderthals". Oh, wait. Maybe these are the non-crazy theories.

Why would anyone want to live a long life? Do what you should right now (and every other right now) and have minimal regrets. Enjoy such things as this monstrosity along the way.

Did this one myself thirty years ago. Fun stuff.

Miss C., I think that an article on Symbolic Trees would make a great article. Besides this one, I nominate Treaty Oak in Austin.

http://www.austintreeexperts.com/blog/treaty-oak-in-austin/

Let me be the first to guess: Edward - Technical and Marketing input is good, however, usually too much of a know-it-all.

I have never seen anything like that before. Thank-you.

Pretty standard benefit for high-tech companies out here on the left coast. Me? Whatever time the days work is done, I either serve my employees homemade beer or take them out for a meal. (Costs are kept down by being the only employee.)

Amusing, but barely holds a candle to Victor Borge's Hungarian Rhapsody.

He seems awfully amazed that it worked.