gdp's Comments

Atomic Toasters : User Input: DELETE.

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 01:43:54 +0000

Evil cyborgs are pretty much built out of evil humans OR humans harvested for conversion against their will (e.g. Doctor Who's cybermen or TNG's Borg). Steve Austin is a Heroic Cyborg, as he uses his assets (!) for the good of humanity. Robots have always been helpful, cheery tools to lessen mankind's burden... when nobody worried about how humanity was going to PAY for technology. SURPRISE! Robots aren't inexpensive, and their labor has value, so economics forced some humans to see robots as a competitor on an ever-larger scale. As displaced human manual labor has no other viable source of wage earning, and things get more tense. Automated service-sector functions, with their glitches, do nothing to endear computers and robots to humanity., so it is very easy to make robots and computers unfeeling villains.

Atomic Toasters : Startup: 躁鬱病

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 00:57:47 +0000

Asimo's petite size and fallibility endeared him to me... and he handles stairs about as well as I do after a few drinks... [youtube ASoCJTYgYB0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoCJTYgYB0 youtube]

Atomic Toasters : Big Bang Who

Sat, 8 Sep 2012 01:21:32 +0000

Well, I could talk about Captain Jack from Doctor Who and Torchwood some more... At the risk of a spoiler alert for the author of this particular post, how about Captain Jack and Ianto Jones locking lips... Hot shit... <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_libny2u6hW1qbpta5o1_500.jpg">

Atomic Toasters : User Input: All About Balance

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:00:44 +0000

He's such a handsome guy, he even makes a reasonably sexy woman...! <img src="http://www.johnbarrowman.com/fanzone/stage/images/lacagepress/jb1.jpg" width=500>

Atomic Toasters : User Input: All About Balance

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:11:28 +0000

John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness. Here he is in Doctor Who season 1 Episode 12, "Bad Wolf": <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vJJWmzKz0Gw/SiQBh3Z1xYI/AAAAAAAAAVo/-UwJZuATMDo/s400/John+Barrowman+nice+and+shirtless+photo.jpg" width=500> And here he is in his personal tumblr account, allegedly... <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx3y5wpAsz1r5zgoio1_400.jpg" width=500>

Atomic Toasters : The LEGO Story

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:06:42 +0000

This is my personal favorite. Gotta love how the creator brought Eddie Izzard's stand-up sketch to life.

Atomic Toasters : The LEGO Story

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:29:15 +0000

Then, there is the untold story of the Black Sheep Christiansen son, Hermey, who didn't want to make toys... [youtube day3yvj3f7s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=day3yvj3f7s youtube]

Atomic Toasters : Startup: Real Life is Less Fun

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:33:37 +0000

Super Mario Mushnik...?

Atomic Toasters : The Darker Side of Herbie

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:42:12 +0000

Or we can just shop third-world and buy 'hot' patio furniture, or build with 'hot' imported rebar. "...For example, in Mexico, notes Hesch, a source containing cobalt was transferred from a scrap yard and was smelted. This contaminated the steel mills and the products they produced. Radioactive rebar was built into patio furniture that was shipped to the United States and distributed in 40 states. Rebar was also imbedded at construction sites..." From an article in Recycling Today, 7 August 2001 http://www.recyclingtoday.com/Article.aspx?articl...

Atomic Toasters : Detroit's Streetcars

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:07:03 +0000

And yet the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway (Red Car) line serviced the suburbs from the get-go, since L.A. lacked a residential "down town" per-se. The advent of freeways made private cars more convenient, until, inevitably, too many cars made the freeways into veritable parking lots. What would Angelenos give to have the old Red Car Line back again in its heyday prime...?

Atomic Toasters : Shrinking Packages

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:04:28 +0000

Oh, and I just noticed that the "quart" jar of mayonnaise in my 'fridge is 30 oz., and my can of V8 juice is 11.5 oz., not 12 oz.

Atomic Toasters : Shrinking Packages

Mon, 28 May 2012 22:56:41 +0000

Coffee...! A large can of coffee was three pounds (48 oz.) when I was growing up, or you could opt for the smaller one-pound (16 oz.) can. Now, the large can is 34 oz., and the small is 12 oz., although I just bought a small can of Maxwell House Decaf and noticed it's now 11 oz. (Yuban Decaf is still at 12 oz., but for how much longer...?). Sheesh... And don't talk to me about the four-pound bag of sugar that used to weigh five pounds...!

Atomic Toasters : Atomic Wonderland: SNAP Back

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:57:25 +0000

Wow. Awesome write-up on a topic I'd never really thought much about, and certainly hadn't heard others discuss. Sounds like the potential for lose-lose scenarios were abundant. Well crafted, HycoSpeed...!

Atomic Toasters : Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It.

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:15:16 +0000

This sounds like about as good an idea as buying "road tested condoms"...

Atomic Toasters : F-107 Ultra Super (insert name here) Sabre

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:39:26 +0000

So crew ejection in the F-107 was downward, right...?

Atomic Toasters : The Periodic Table of Swearing

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:47:53 +0000

I have it on good authority that George VI and his speech therapist commissioned this research...

Atomic Toasters : User Input: Alpha Nerd

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:27:33 +0000

How about MacGyver? Smart, resourceful, and totally do-able (even in his mullet-wearing episodes)... <img src="http://stagevu.com/img/thumbnail/vasuacknvnqgbig.jpg" width=500>

Atomic Toasters : Robots Can Do Everything

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:35:36 +0000

Beware the fate of acute push-buttonitis, as befell poor Jane Jetson...!

Atomic Toasters : A Real Man's BB Gun

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:22:53 +0000

Well, "fired" is about as accurate as asking what number to "dial" on my push-button telephone... We're all archaic relics, I suppose.

Atomic Toasters : Vintage Celluloid

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:34:12 +0000

Not wasted, Professor. Just aimed slightly off-target...