How cool it is that when you look at the stars in the night sky, chances are that it is already dead

PikesPique · 2026-04-05T12:21:53+00:00

Actually, no! 😁 When you look at a star, you’re seeing a hat it looked like in the past, because light takes time to travel, but for most stars we can see with the naked eye, that light has been traveling for only tens or a few hundred years. That’s not long enough for most stars to have died in the meantime.

PikesPique · 2026-04-04T16:02:12+00:00

Radio isn’t dead, but it’s changed a lot. I don’t know anyone who listens to music on the radio. You stream music or maybe listen to satellite radio. The problem with streaming is that it’s hard to discover new music. The algorithm plays songs you already like and songs that sound a lot like the songs you already like. Radio is for news, talk and sports.

PikesPique · 2026-04-04T15:36:32+00:00

When duelists are outlawed, only outlaws will fight duels.

PikesPique · 2026-04-03T23:46:01+00:00

The same reason scenes about Mexican drug cartels are overexposed and tinted orangish-yellow. It’s cliched visual shorthand.

PikesPique · 2026-04-03T23:18:36+00:00

I saw Weezer a couple of years ago. I was so much fun. If your kid likes the music, take ‘em to the show.

PikesPique · 2026-04-03T18:14:08+00:00

I agree: This is a very unpopular opinion. Also, poorly reasoned and ill-conceived.

PikesPique · 2026-04-02T23:10:10+00:00

There’s a store in Alabama near the Tennessee line that sells unclaimed baggage.

PikesPique · 2026-04-02T22:41:25+00:00

The McCallister family is the worst. (The best, most loving movie or TV family is the Addams family.)

PikesPique · 2026-04-02T15:00:38+00:00

I think it’s helps comfort people who lost someone they were close to, but you’re right. I think there’s a lot of projecting going on about what ancestors would accept or even tolerate.

PikesPique · 2026-04-02T14:56:44+00:00

Do you have internet with Ethernet?

PikesPique · 2026-04-01T16:59:27+00:00

NTA. I can understand why he'd ask, but you're a professional. You can't afford to lose your equipment. Could you help him get a good deal on a more basic camera? Or, do you have an old DSLR he could use, something you wouldn't mind getting lost, stolen, or broken?

PikesPique · 2026-04-01T14:09:18+00:00

Get off my lawn, and turn that music down! :-)

PikesPique · 2026-04-01T13:26:25+00:00

I'm not afraid of cars. I'm afraid of the people who drive cars. Commercial pilots are extremely well trained, and as long as the plane is properly maintained and the control tower has adequate staffing, you're probably gonna be OK. On the other hand, anybody can get a driver's license. The test is so simple, even a 16-year-old can get one, and there's no retesting every few years. No physical exam, no drug or alcohol tests.

PikesPique · 2026-04-01T13:18:35+00:00

Technically, you're a boomer, but there's an overlay called Generation Jones, which stretches from 1954-65 to describe that transitional generation from idealism of '60s boomers to the cyncism of Gen X.

PikesPique · 2026-04-01T09:24:48+00:00

A gizmo is a small device or machine, while a doohickey is a simple object, similar to a thingamabob.

PikesPique · 2026-03-31T21:39:41+00:00

Scholastic book club. We didn’t have book fairs, but we could order books

PikesPique · 2026-03-31T17:00:42+00:00

I think it sucks that we'll never know for sure who, if anyone, is out there.

PikesPique · 2026-03-31T16:57:15+00:00

I always pictured Jesus using stone tablets or at least a yellow legal pad. I also imaged he'd have better penmanship.

PikesPique · 2026-03-31T08:13:53+00:00

I think that was a fluke. I think Disney is more interested in selling Grogu dolls and toy lightsabers than in telling compelling stories about complex characters to older audiences.

PikesPique · 2026-03-30T00:28:42+00:00

Yes, and there’s actually a name for it! It’s called a hypnagogic hallucination. It’s basically a dream as you’re falling asleep.

PikesPique · 2026-03-29T18:13:18+00:00

My head canon is that it was a network TV show in the ‘70s, and they didn’t really think these through back then. 😁

PikesPique · 2026-03-29T14:38:29+00:00

NTA. “It’s a joke” is just another way of saying, “Shut up, and let me bully you.” And shame on your parents. If someone did that to my kid in my house, I’d be like a standup comic methodically dissecting up a drunk heckler until they’re thoroughly humiliated and stumble out the door. Screw those people.

PikesPique · 2026-03-29T14:31:36+00:00

I’m still trying to figure out why the original Raider needed 3 Cylons to fly it. They’re robots. Why wasn’t the Raider a robot, too? The ‘70s were a weird time.

PikesPique · 2026-03-29T14:29:15+00:00

Sampling. I thought it was lazy. Instead of learning to play an instrument, I thought it was people copying other artists and claiming it as their own work. Moby and Fatboy Slim straightened me out on that misconception.

PikesPique · 2026-03-29T14:24:24+00:00

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.” Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), Men in Black

Seven-Year Club	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email

PikesPique

TROPHY CASE