Cool Exhibit

Who gets wetter, someone walking in the rain or running? Is it really possible to hang from a cliff by your fingers until help arrives like they do in the movies? And is Superman the only one who is faster than a speeding bullet? Those are questions the Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" has asked for years, and starting Thursday, anybody who's wondered how long it takes to put on a superhero outfit in a phone booth — don't forget the cape — can answer them for themselves at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. 

 Read more here.

Glad We Got That Straightened Out

In a March 14 story about a billionaire family giving away a school campus in Northfield, Mass., The Associated Press incorrectly reported that the town has no traffic lights. The town has blinking traffic lights.

Correction: Free Campus story (Photos, too.)

Lynn D. "Buck" Compton died today

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017616564_apusobitbandofbrothers3rdldwritethru.html

Speaking of Sock Escapes

Now that you mention it, there's something going on in my laundry room. My socks are no longer trying to escape. Odd, no?

Instead, foreign socks are using my laundry basket as a cloaking device, if you will, in order to get smuggled out of the laundry room and into my apartment. Isn't someone supposed to be defending my borders? Isn't there some sort of fence to keep these foreign socks out?

The first one almost got away with it, too. It was a solo but I figured its mate was about somewhere and put it in the drawer. Just like that, it was there - with all my other socks! It was a full week later - probably the next laundry day - before I noticed there was something different about this sock. It wasn't mine!

I returned it to the laundry room and it wasn't long before it disappeared again. I don't know where it ultimately went and I don't want to know. In fact, I'll deny that I ever saw it in the first place.

But, before I knew it, it happened again! This time, it was a pair and I noticed them right away. Well, not before they made it back to my apartment but at least they didn't make it as far as my drawer. Close call!

I deported them straight back to the laundry room and unceremoniously dumped them on top of the dryer. I'll never know what became of them but sometimes I wonder if they're okay, if I did the right thing. On the other hand, they didn't belong here and it's better that I don't get involved.

So, next time, I'm calling the authorities. Or maybe the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley.

Oh, Really

“Imprisonment alone is not enough to create a custodial situation...,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court’s majority opinion.

Washington Post: Supreme Court says prison inmates don’t have to be read rights in different investigations

AC/DC - Coming To A Living Room Near Me

Shall we talk speaker? Subwoofers? Amplifiers? Oh, please, do we have to?

We just bought a new stereo. Correction: Pioneer Elite amplifier and Martin Logan 12 tower speakers. You would think that in our 500 sq.ft. apartment we could hear the TV just fine. Well, I could. But now the neighbors will hear it pretty well too.

The setup looks nice but I'm afraid that when we turn it on we'll blow a fuse and the plaster right off the walls. And by looking at the collection of remote controls, I suspect a conspiracy (of one). The TV is now sufficiently complicated enough that I can't run it by myself thereby ensuring a lifelong reliance on my husband. Talk about relationship security.

Naturally, setup is a process so I've been charged with procuring beer because beer is a prerequisite for all home improvement projects.

That, and a first aid kit.

Speaking of Taxes

It's not all about the Feds. Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 291:

The five highest combined rates are Tennessee (9.45 percent), Arizona (9.12 percent), Louisiana (8.85 percent), Washington (8.80 percent), and Oklahoma (8.66 percent).

 More information at the Tax Foundation.

I need a latte lollipop. It's too late in the day for coffee although I really, really want one. A coffee in the afternoon doesn't work for me. But a latte, that's different. And, decaf doesn't really count so what's a person to do?

Chocolate.