I figure unless I take up skydiving or spelunking as a hobby, I'm quite likely to go out by stroke. It's actually kind of comforting, as I'd rather have the cerebral M-80 pop and put me face down on a desk in my 60s than suffer the physical infirmities and senility that might happen a decade later.

I'm not quite confident enough to stop contributing 401K money, though.

Steve Oedekerk isn't so much a Disney exec as the guy who wrote Kung Pow, Barnyard, Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty, Ace Ventura, Nutty Professor.

They are a Race Unto Themselves,

So does the movie acknowledge this, or is it the Bull Deformity that Dare Not Speak Its Name?

edit for typo...

as the guy who wrote Kung Pow, Barnyard, Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty, Ace Ventura, Nutty Professor.

Which explains so much.

Maybe not a planet anymore, according to the Science Channel show I watched last night.

NO ONE IS TAKING CLYDE'S PLANET FROM HIM DAMNIT.

And yet another thing I feel strongly about. (Clyde Tombaugh was an awesome guy. His wife, Patsy, might edge him out in awesomeness, though. Great people.)

Uh, I meant Nutty Professor II. The second time.

Unrelatedly, I'd like to say for the record that I'm not posting the link to the guy pulling a truck with his dick. I'd like credit. Having said that:

• Double pie, but not a guy
• Worth 1000's improper kids toys
• It would be cool if the kitty litter robot did what the gizmodo entry says. But not unless your cat shits candy, I think.
• The curse of charismatic nature conservation
• Article says people only call 4 others on their cell phones. Man, some people are really picking up the slack for me. And I'm not even a heavy user.
• Real time airport monitor

Watched The Closer, and am really over the grieved relative kills the guilty person when the law doesn't work. And I was quite happy that for once she didn't get a prosecution. Ah, well.

hivemind question: ceiling fans? clockwise or counter to make it cooler?

NO ONE IS TAKING CLYDE'S PLANET FROM HIM DAMNIT.

Can we take the sky from him?

From someplace on the web:

COOLING

The idea of "Wind Chill".

A ceiling fan moves counter-clockwise to cool and provides a breeze that makes the air feel cooler, even through they don't actually lower the temperature. With a ceiling fan working, 78 or 80 degrees can be as comfortable as 72 degrees--leading to big energy savings.

This savings could add up to as much as 40% during the summer. Even at high speed, a ceiling fan typically uses less energy than a 100 watt light bulb .. and less than a 25 watt bulb at low speed.

HEAT RECLAMATION

Warm air rises, so the warmest air is trapped near the ceiling and wasted. Set on its lowest speed IN REVERSE-- so there will be no wind chill effect-the ceiling fan pushes warm air down from the ceiling. In effect, homeowners reclaim lost heat--and lost heating dollars. You can turn the thermostat down and save up to 10% on heating bills while keeping the home warm and comfortable.

Article says people only call 4 others on their cell phones. Man, some people are really picking up the slack for me. And I'm not even a heavy user.

My landline is used to call a) the internets, b) the parents, c) the brother, d) R and e) everybody else which maybe totals another 20 calls a year to maybe 5 other farflung family and relatives. But I'm not a phone person.

My dad, thank god*, only uses his cell to call other s&r people and maybe us if he's on the road.

* Because otherwise we'd hear ALL THE TIME how much he HATES cell phones blahblahblah

msbelle, not thinking hard at all about the physics, I'd guess it'd depend on the angle of the blades and where there lived a source of cool air. One way would be circulating air up, the other down. If they work like my floor fans do. If the air is pretty much all one temp and there is no heat source, I'd want it blowing downward, just because I'd feel it more. I think.