But of course!

G-wagon, g-wagon, g-wagon, g-wagon!

Velocity is speed in a given direction. She only calculated speed.

I was on the escalator coming up out of one of Washington D.C.'s Metro stations when the guy ahead of me reached the top, stepped to the side, then squatted down and pissed his pants.

bawk

“Balk”. Unless you’re talking about a chicken.

Actual Incompetence.

In TA you could select a unit factory then issue move orders and set up patrol routes and then any units constructed by that factory would follow those orders. Also, if there was a unit executing a repeating move pattern, you could select it, hold shift and give it a new order. It would execute that order, then when done it would return to its original pattern.

Apple sued Microsoft over the “look and feel” of the desktop interface, claiming that Windows was too similar to Mac OS. The suit was mostly dismissed, except in the case of the trash bin. The judge ruled that the Microsoft version came too close to Apple’s. From that point on Microsoft used the Recycle Bin.

You do realize he’s using the original definition of grok, right?

Yay! Even more ways to not watch it!

A palate cleanser. Something that cleans pallets is unlikely to be edible.

My main problem with this stuff is the rice. It’s not really individual grains, it’s congealed into a solid, dry mass. Very unpleasant.

If you’ve had this before and know what to expect then by all means, enjoy away. But if you’re expecting this to be anything like more traditional sushi you will be sorely disappointed.

One night I was lying in bed around midnight, trying to get to sleep when a bolt struck a hundred feet or so down the street from me. It was spring so I had the windows open and it was fucking loud. Took me a while to calm down and start to doze off again, so of course that’s when the fire engines arrived to investigate the scene with their sirens going full blast.

Both of those versions are referencing the original by Zager and Evans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

Oh, he knows what you want. He just wants you to beg for it.

Overly-long, unskippable credits.

I’d be more worried about zinc oxide.

David Macaulay wrote a series of illustrated books about the construction of various types of historical buildings such as a castle, a cathedral, the pyramids and a few others. The first, Castle was made into a PBS documentary but I’m not sure if any others made the jump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbPShUpjpg

Edit: Looks like Cathedral, Pyramid, Roman City and Mill were also made into documentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZpOd2pHiI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnHcG9oE9Ec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7Yds8bWz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toV9uIDIJMs

I’ll nominate Deep Forest’s 1992 self-titled album.