I was wandering at the local Best Buy when I saw Logitech's MX performance mouse on the shelf. Took it home with and I'm impressed.
1.  You can 2 scroll speeds...fast and zooom! for those long internet pages or word documents. There's a detent switch above the scroll wheel to distinguish the speeds.
2. The scroll wheel can also be pushed left or right when you have a wide page.
3. The mouse will track over any surface..even glass...no more contacts getting dirty. I've been using over a dusty mouse pad and no problems so far.
4. It's wireless. Meh..you need batteries for it right and replace it. No quite. The battery is rechargeable and built in. The charging cable also acts as the mouse cable when needed. There's an LED status indicator that warns you when the juice is going done.  So, no need for batteries. No more hunting the house for spare AAA when the thing goes down.
There's more power hacks..haven't tried all yet.
http://www.logitech.com/assets/46861/pe ... -guide.pdf
Oh, there's also an off/on switch at the bottom of the mouse. If you want to speed up the charging time, just turn the mouse off when not in use.
You know, I'd like to see somebody fly a fighter using a mouse and HOTA system. Maybe not an athmo fighter, but a space fighter?
__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Age 83, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  New York Times obituary here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I was going to hold off on this until I had the partner figure done, but I'm also trying to see if there's image hosting problems. This is a toy-style design for a Godmaster (sold as Powermasters in the US with a rather different body of lore) that also turns into a miniature vehicle like the more recent Minicon toys, rather than just a human and an engine for the full-size robot body. The robot is oddly positioned because I just pulled it out of the cockpit of the larger toy being built around it.


--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

I was listening on NPR this report segment:
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/25/389008046 ... anker-cars
I believe our Canadian brethren here is very familiar with this story: Especially Lac-Megantic on July 6, 2013. Now what piques my particular interest was what the reporter said about Tuscaloosa, AL ( which is an hour away from me).  A few facts stated by the reporter:
1. The fracking oil fields in the U.S are located in areas where there are no pipelines to bring it to refineries. There are rail lines though.
2. The amount of oil transported by rail had been expanding.
3. The type of oil transported by rail is light crude with VOC's (volatile organic compounds) suspended in them. Those compounds are shaken out of the crude during the journey and forms a blanket on top of the crude. These compounds are flammable and explosive under the right conditions. They can also be deadly like hydrogen sulfide (my 2 cents).
4. The type of tanker cars being used in transport is typically the DOT-111A cars. Which was originally designed  to handle corn syrup. It's a design not originally intended to handle flammable materials.
Tuscaloosa is home to University of Alabama (home to the shrine of Bear Bryant), for those who are not into U.S. collegiate football. Interesting enough, it's the first time I'ved heard of a wooden railway trestle bridge in use to transport crude to a nearby oil refinery over there:

__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

I do believe I found the gate song that leads Doug away from Cheyenne Mountain and closer to Maggie.
http://gundamseed.livejournal.com/793026.html

Nice twist!

http://io9.com/holy-hell-this-power-ran ... 1687689958

So, I finally have a new PC that will play the latest MMOs. Logged in F2P on SWTOR to give it a try, been running an Imperial Agent through the initial Nal Hutta arc.
Anyone else been playing? On which server?
(I'm on 'Jedi Covenant'.)
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

 
You never lived to seeWhat you gave to meOne shining dream of hope and loveLife and liberty
With a host of brave unknown SoldiersFor your company, you will live foreverHere in our memory
In fields of sacrificeHeroes paid the priceYoung men who died for old men's warsGone to paradise
We are all one great band of brothersAnd one day you'll see we can live togetherWhen all the world is free
I wish you'd lived to seeAll you gave to meYour shining dream of hope and loveLife and liberty
We are all one great band of brothersAnd one day you'll see - we can live togetherWhen all the world is free?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

I give you


Cluck Kent

I'm extremely disappointed there's no proper duck head, though. 



The Duck Knight just isn't the same...

You can blame Terrence for this.



-- Acyl

I make no apologies for not being a "mechahead" anime fan, but that means I don't know exactly which Gundam each of these is supposed to be... Can anyone ID them for me, please?

1) http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/fre ... ute/693324
2) http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/fre ... del/304772
3) http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/I ... /ID/350037

EDIT: And a set for the MACROSS fans to ID without using the Robotech names, if you could:
A) http://www.sharecg.com/v/11651/
B) http://www.sharecg.com/v/11406/
C) http://www.sharecg.com/v/11653/
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012