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Some inventors get so excited over their (perceived) innovativeness that they lose sight of practicality. "New and Improved" are not necessarily always together, but the inventor thinks they are. I was once asked to put together a patent application for someone. That took a lot of...

Freedive wetsuits are different from scuba wetsuits. I asked a question about that on the forum somewhere, and the reply was, basically, freedive wetsuits work better near the surface and the wearer moving a lot, whereas scuba wetsuits work better at depth and the wearer not moving much. I find...

How much of that is a matter of training and instruction, though? It reminds me of something I saw on TV news many years ago. Someone had fallen through ice, and you saw at least ten people, one by one, walking out to try to save them and of course falling in themselves. It just flabbergasted me...

Their answer to the second question is their REAL answer to the first question.

Hilarious final touch that they put contact information for reservations at that same restaurant. But given that it is Florida, where it's hard to tell real life from a Carl Hiaasen novel, the April Fool aspect was not immediately obvious.

Taino

I just have to say -- that is a beautiful picture! It's like flying.

I find it interesting that these Spanish manufacturers consistently use the word "cadetes" for young people. In English, of course, that word has a much more specific meaning, as in the cadets at the Air Force Academy.

That's why it's called a "delicacy." Because when you're that hungry, anything at all seems like a delicacy.

The other day I was rummaging in an antiques store. A vintage pocketknife had a logo that at first looked a lot like the one for Nemrod. For a moment I thought, "Nemrod made pocketknives?" But no, the name was Bowman. It's understandable that a brand named Bowman would have a logo that just...

You can recognize cornetfish by the blue streamer tail, unlike trumpetfish or pipefish.

I do wonder, though, whether the relative frequency of a given model in any way correlates with its superiority. In these histories, we see features come and go, each one touted in its time as an improvement. And yet if a given feature from back then is not found in today's models, that raises...

That's the Humpty-Dumpty world we live in now. "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean." Pretty soon we'll be seeing book-burning bonfires of dictionaries, because dictionaries perpetuate the oppression of forcing words to have only one or a few specific meanings.

This must be the children's version, with the cutesy ocean imagery. Although, again, with such a short blade, I question how much good it really did. That's the trouble with being a kid: because you aren't taken seriously, you don't get serious equipment.

What seems odd to me is her coming to the surface and then going down again. No word that she specified anything wrong, just "called for help."

It is important to cut through the hysteria. People's beliefs about COVID, and the vaccine, often seem to be based more on their preexisting worldviews than on their understanding of facts and evidence. You know, when I added this to my multiquote, I did so to agree with you; but then I saw...

With such short blades, that's not surprising. They look more like what a fitness swimmer would wear in the pool while training. I can't see them being that useful in open water. Unless that image is not to scale.

I'm not confident of that at all. Especially in matters of public health fearmongering.

And, in that DM's defense, this could feel like absorbing salt.

That's because they haven't discovered body positivity yet. You can fix anything with duct tape, right?