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[MaximumZero]

Krispy Kreme is going to reinvent itself as an energy company.
"Would you like to try one of our delicious new dougnnuts with 100-watt glaze?"

Suddenly, countries pay the US to increase the rate at which roving energy deposits fat tourists appear in their countries.

[Aklyon]

Suddenly US stereotype turns into energy supply instead of fat people?

[Duke 2.0]

Krispy Kreme is going to reinvent itself as an energy company.
"Would you like to try one of our delicious new dougnnuts with 100-watt glaze?"

Suddenly, countries pay the US to increase the rate at which roving energy deposits fat tourists appear in their countries.

Completely and totally offset by the fat tourists coming to the US.

[RedKing]

Suddenly US stereotype turns into energy supply instead of fat people?

I've always said if we can just figure a way to effectively convert cellulite to electricity, we'd have energy independence in months.

[MaximumZero]

I would be happy to have one of those implanted in me, so long as I could connect it to a HUD that tells me things like heart rate, blood pressure, psi of punches, things like that.

[Descan]

You'd break the HUD once it got to that last one.

[Aklyon]

You'd break the HUD once it got to that last one.

THats what larger heads are for. You get more HUD resolution space

[Loud Whispers]

Suddenly US stereotype turns into energy supply instead of fat people?

I've always said if we can just figure a way to effectively convert cellulite to electricity, we'd have energy independence in months.

"WE'VE DONE IT! WE CAN CREATE NUCLEAR FUSION GENERATORS!"

Meh, we've been running on fat people for years now...

"Dammit."

[Remalle]

It's one of the first nice days all summer.  Is there anything more I could ask for than sitting out on the balcony, reading Neil Gaiman with a pizza I just made?
(The answer is no.)

[MaximumZero]

It's one of the first nice days all summer.  Is there anything more I could ask for than sitting out on the balcony, reading Neil Gaiman with a pizza I just made?
(The answer is no.)

A temperature less than the surface of the sun would be nice.

[Solifuge]

In other exciting technology news, I love TED talks, and I am excited for the future. And not in the "Oh wow, that's cool" way. In the way that gives me hope, and for a second there actually made me teary-eyed. It's this ever-growing realization that we're on the cusp of big change... bigger than anything yet. Bigger than people or nations, but something global. I can't wait to see where we'll be going in my lifetime, and want nothing more than to work to make it happen.

[RedKing]

It's one of the first nice days all summer.  Is there anything more I could ask for than sitting out on the balcony, reading Neil Gaiman with a pizza I just made?
(The answer is no.)

A temperature less than the surface of the sun would be nice.

It was 103F here a little while ago. This has become so common that we're not even noticing it anymore. I think we're on track to get something like 9 days of consecutive 100F+ highs, before it finally breaks next Monday. of course, now it's 92F because of spontaneous, terrifying thunderstorms that can appear to wreak utter havoc with almost no warning.

I don't think I like this new weather pattern. Microcell storms on a hot day are nothing new, but these are significantly stronger than we're accustomed to seeing.

[Bauglir]

On the subject of The Future in cybernetics... Not sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, fuck yes, this is something I've wanted for a long time and was planning to spend most of my life making happen. On the other hand, I only planned that because I misread trends in research during college and didn't see this sort of thing coming so soon due to apparent lack of interest - I never actually enjoyed doing scientific research, it was just something I seemed to be able to do passably. So... the interest is there now, and that's about all I had going for me. Not sure what to do now, since it's just something I wanted to get done (and that's going to happen), not something I wanted to do.

Still, hell yeah for Science. This is the happy thread, after all.

[ChairmanPoo]

I'm about to start reading a book about time travelling nazis looking for the ark of the covenant. The plot is so dellightfully absurd, at least in the synopsis, that it MUST be so bad it's good

Edir: "they breathed with difficulty, as the concentration of oxygen was very high" *facepalm*

[Sirus]

I've got the entire freaking house to myself for pretty much the rest of the week. Cue classic rock marathon (now playing: "Jump" by Van Halen) while cleaning house and learning how to use Python. Good times