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Now dare you! And now I need to root around in my mom's house basement to see if I can find my old Lite Brite! :)

It looks like the business end of the shaver they're advertising. Maybe a big image of one comes into the picture or goes out of the picture as part of the commercial. Either that, or the UFOs are spying on the filming!

Now that you bring that up. If the driver didn't find a keypad, I wonder how much time he would have spent looking for one. We put in a new storm door and a new main front door a few years ago. The storm door is almost all glass (with a screen insert you can swap for the glass one). We...

I don't know why they're bothering to ID the suspect. They'll just let him out without bail immediately.

I always wanted to get into Bonsai.

Disco. Disco Duck! Disco. Disco Duck!

The push in connections should be illegal! I really like the receptacles with the side clamps. I always sort of hated the loop around the screw, even though it does make a good connection if used correctly! I'll pay more for better devices to get the clamp type connections! They're what I've...

I think the genius that wired that part of your place might be the guy who owned my house before we bought it. He was very frugal! Connections behind walls with no junction boxes, and he liked to pull every centimeter of slack out of each box, too. You couldn't even pull a switch or...

I want one! I've just never sprung for any of them yet! Aluminum wiring. Nasty stuff if not handled correctly. People don't realize how quickly aluminum oxidizes, and how great of an insulator aluminum oxide is. It's sapphire! Hard, great insulator, and forms within minutes of exposing the...

Many years ago, a guy brought a thermal imaging camera into the place where I worked. He was somewhat desperate because he had connected it backwards to a big 12V battery, and fried it. This was an AGA "Thermovision" thermoscan camera back in the late 1970s, or early 1980s. I got the job of...

I'm not sure you can blame all of the action on him being drunk. Even drunk, you'd think he would have seen some problem with driving over that pipe. I wonder how he'd do somewhere that gets snow. :)

I have an amusing "fishing" story. And this has absolutely nothing to do with Florida, hurricanes, snakes, or alligators! ;) A rig was operating near Gillette, Wyoming many years ago. At one point, a wireline company came in to do an open-hole log of the well. Unfortunately, at least part...

The woman definitely initiated the attack on the deer. I don't blame her for defending her dog, but the dog was safe under the car by the time she tried to do a Ruth Buzzi on the poor thing. I'm not sure where the deer started out, but it was already terrified after it came out from behind...

Where's my treat, buddy?

Who's got the cajones to try to retrieve that rope from the one guy's antlers?

Well, now I'm jealous, and imagining that I could spend entirely too much money and time setting up a similar setup. I'm impressed with how well this works, and fearful of how much time I'd have to spend getting something similar to work well! Bravo, anyhow! :)

You guys all beat me to it, but I was gonna ask: "Where's your secret service detail when you need them?"

That boy is in a heap o trouble! And they scared that poor rabbit out of its hiding place, too. One wonders what events lead up to this. The perpetrator surely knew the cop, and knew that he was a cop. There has to be an interesting story behind all of this.

I don't think she would have thought she could "thread the needle". Too many cars bumper-to-bumper in that intersection. As sad as it is, it appears that she may have done this on purpose, but her plans to kill herself were thwarted by the amazing safety systems and design of the Mercedes...

Something that is always a problem with any auto-exposure system is bright highlights being "preserved" by the system. In this case, the reflection from the reflector on the car is fooling the auto exposure into making the entire image too dark as it tries to "preserve the highlights". If...

I agree that the rabbit looks black, and therefore not what I'd see wild around here. We have tons of cottontails and quite a few jackrabbits. The jacks are pretty darned fast, and they're far more wary than the cottontails. Domesticated rabbits, however, are often amazingly trusting. We had...

That's totally legal in California, now, isn't it? Maybe a ticket for obstructing traffic, but otherwise A-OK. In Wyoming, it's legal to take a roadside whizz on the highways (for the most part) because there really aren't many rest areas. In town? Not so much! Indecent exposure charge with...

Those look excellent. 4K resolution is about 8 megapixels which is pretty spectacular, especially if they do good at night. I've got to give them a try. My only reservation is that they're bullet style, and we have endless spiderweb issues with bullets. If I use them, I'd probably have to...

We discussed a camera system, and of course I'd set her up with a properly-secured Blue Iris system and some good cameras from you! :) She also needs an alarm system with motion detection in the garage, which she insists on leaving open a lot of the time. She was home when this happened, and...

I dare not say. Those three cameras are some old ones that I bought before I knew any better. They're from the brand who must not be named. They do quite well in good light, but are fairly bad in low light. They are 4 megapixels, however, so in bright light the resolution is appreciated...

Many tire pressure gauges have a valve core tool built in, and I've even had fancy steel valve caps that have one built in. Schrader valves are actually pretty clever. And the way the cores (which can wear out, get dirt in them, or be damaged) are so easily replaced is really a nice feature...

What you can't see is the other Exploder parked behind the house! :)

Bats are great. But I've always thought it would be an interesting experiment to set up a good microphone that can capture their high-frequency echo-location "chirps", and then have a digital recording/playback system that you can set to replay the chirps but with a random time-delay and see if...

Or look through what's in the bag they left. But I agree, some LPR might be very satisfying! Many years ago, some people were constantly dumping bags of their trash behind a friend's house, on said friend's property. We just looked through it and found numerous pieces of mail addressed to the...