Scooters look like having too much of the danger of motorcycles without any of the fun.

My father-in-law managed to get some pretty rotten injuries from a scooter crash back around Thanksgiving. The family is now debating what to do with said scooter.

(He's also looking for a good story to explain the scar, as if falling off a scooter at age 60 isn't enough of one.)

(He's also looking for a good story to explain the scar, as if falling off a scooter at age 60 isn't enough of one.)

Bar fight!

I want one of these...it's almost a scooter, but the metal goes around the meat, instead of the other way 'round. [link]

Ninety pct of DVR users skip TV ads.

I can't help but wonder...who are these strange 10-percenters? Ad execs?

Last year I got like zero slack for like three months. I've been doing nothing BUT slacking since Christmas. It's actually kind of depressing.

but the metal goes around the meat,

I am in love with this phrase.

I can't help but wonder...who are these strange 10-percenters? Ad execs?

I sometimes don't skip the ads, but that's because I'm not paying enough attention to know ads are on/am too lazy to bother.

who are these strange 10-percenters? Ad execs?

I wonder what comprises most of the time? I certainly don't skip all the ads all the time, although it's very rare I watch all the ads for a show I'm not watching live.

In fact, maybe that's what the stat refers to. Though it seems very low.

Huh. I don't watch anything live since I got the DVR.

You know what would work for the advertisers? Encouraging the use of TiVos or DVRs with the capacity to watch two channels. Because if I'm recording something, I'm always looking to see if I'm missing something I could be watching at the same time. Hell, if I had the capacity to tape three things at once, I'd start taping two things and surf the third channel.

This does mean I end up watching with commercials the shows I don't care enough to tape, but skip commercials on the good shows.