Cancer

I was on the northbound on-ramp from Mercer Street onto Interstate 5 here in Seattle when I heard about it on the radio.
 
That's assuming, of course, the aliens aren't holding his brain hostage on planet zort, as asserted in a Berke Breathed comic once.

Death Tribble is such a fan of gallium arsenide that he is desperately trying other two-element systems looking for similar results. He uses the Challenge thread to think out loud when coming up with new combos to try.
 
Edit (scooped): Kaeto's 1949 Packard only comes out of the garage at night, whein Kaeto puts his special mask on. All he has to do is whistle.

Ain't never seen Hassium. Nice and quiet. Osmium, though, screeches terribly, like that gaggle of white boys from Utah that they named it after.
 
Astatine or arsenic: which is better for kissing?

A reach-back to letter M:
 
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Probably the definitive book on the Manhattan Project now.

Arsenic trioxide can help kill cancer, so go with arsenic.
 
Which country should americans move to: Canada vs Netherlands.

Stock Market Crash Bandicoot

((OFF TOPIC)) 
This is an aluminum foil recipe. Serves one. Make multiple separate packets if you are serving more than one.
 
Chicken part (I'm a white meat guy, so it was usually a breast)
1/8 to 1/4-inch thick slice of a medium onion
Garlic powder (two scant pinches)
Dried oregano (two scant pinches)
Bottled Russian salad dressing (two generous teaspoons)
 
Comment: The Russian dressing has honey in it (most salad dressings don't) which makes the baked juice have a nice glaze to it. Other dressings are a real step down.
 
Lay out the foil. Cut the onion slice in half. Separate the rings of one half of the slice, and array them on top of the middle of the foil.
 
Sprinkle a pinch of garlic powder and pinch of oregano over the onion.
 
Pour 1 teaspoon of the salad dressing over the onion.
 
Lay the chicken part atop everything.
 
Repeat the first few steps: separated onion ring halves, garlic powder, oregano, salad dressing, but everything goes on top of the chicken.
 
Roll up the foil to make a sealed packet. Take care to bend the ends up, and don't puncture the foil, so the juice doesn't escape the packet while cooking.
 
Bake on an oven sheet or pizza pan. Starting with a cold oven and a frozen chicken breast right out of the freezer (c'mon, what bachelor remembers to thaw anything?), set your oven for 400 F and the timer for an hour.
 
I prefer to serve this with rice; put a mound of rice on the plate, pick open one end of the packet and pour the juice over the rice. Then open the packet the rest of the way and put the rest on the plate. Strangely, Worcestershire sauce is a good table condiment with this.
 
Note only the knife and the cutting surface and knife are dirtied in the prep process. No pans, unless the foil leaks. Fairly long cooking time, but tasty enough to prepare and serve for a prospective S.O. and even prospective mother-in-law.
 
Five stars. Joe Bob says check it out.

((OFF TOPIC)) 
This is an aluminum foil recipe. Serves one. Make multiple separate packets if you are serving more than one.
 
Chicken part (I'm a white meat guy, so it was usually a breast)
1/8 to 1/4-inch thick slice of a medium onion
Garlic powder (two scant pinches)
Dried oregano (two scant pinches)
Bottled Russian salad dressing (two generous teaspoons)
 
Comment: The Russian dressing has honey in it (most salad dressings don't) which makes the baked juice have a nice glaze to it. Other dressings are a real step down.
 
Lay out the foil. Cut the onion slice in half. Separate the rings of one half of the slice, and array them on top of the middle of the foil.
 
Sprinkle a pinch of garlic powder and pinch of oregano over the onion.
 
Pour 1 teaspoon of the salad dressing over the onion.
 
Lay the chicken part atop everything.
 
Repeat the first few steps: separated onion ring halves, garlic powder, oregano, salad dressing, but everything goes on top of the chicken.
 
Roll up the foil to make a sealed packet. Take care to bend the ends up, and don't puncture the foil, so the juice doesn't escape the packet while cooking.
 
Bake on an oven sheet or pizza pan. Starting with a cold oven and a frozen chicken breast right out of the freezer (c'mon, what bachelor remembers to thaw anything?), set your oven for 400 F and the timer for an hour.
 
I prefer to serve this with rice; put a mound of rice on the plate, pick open one end of the packet and pour the juice over the rice. Then open the packet the rest of the way and put the rest on the plate. Strangely, Worcestershire sauce is a good table condiment with this.
 
Note only the knife and the cutting surface and knife are dirtied in the prep process. No pans, unless the foil leaks. Fairly long cooking time, but tasty enough to prepare and serve for a prospective S.O. and even prospective mother-in-law.
 
Five stars. Joe Bob says check it out.

Stock Market Crash Bandicoot

We had Jerry Tarkanian. Same thing, different school.

Tungsten. Great for high density hypervelocity penetrator rounds without the questionable aspects of DU rounds.
 
Constellations in conflict: Big dipper vs the southern cross.

That comment is just gold.

Candy Land of the Lost

This.

Also, don't fire any 15-inch battleship gun shells at tissue paper.

"If you believe that electrons are located in the nucleus of the atom, perhaps for dessert tonight you should have some plum pudding."

From a post speculating about Seattle getting rid of their offensive coordinator, Darrel Bevell:

Another oddity you can use in your game

The name by itself gives me ideas for my game-world.
 
Pluto's bladed terrain

Tangentially related to this is the locally infamous story that ESPN talking head slagged off on U of Washington last weekend ... the "you should be grateful to us" phrase was used, and that never, ever plays well. It's up there with "Let them eat cake."
 
AFAICT, no two games of Washington football this year will have the same kickoff time. This is strictly for TV reasons.

On a blackboard in the hall there is an announcement of when the tutors are staffing the help room, and an imploration to come.
 
Next to this, in a different handwriting (gosh, whose? ), is the note

A bunch of good ones for M…
 
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The private journal of the 2nd Century Roman Emperor, written while campaigning. Musings on philosophy and stoicism and what it means to be a good man or a rational man. I frequently pick up Meditations and read a few random passages; I finally got a Kindle edition I could read on my phone because I wore out my paper copy, and now it's my favorite "I've got 5 minutes to kill" reading.
 
Mao Tse Tung on Guerilla Warfare. Still the seminal work on the topic as far as I’m concerned, a highly practical book written while Mao was actively fighting a guerilla war against the Nationalists.
 
Mind Hunter by John Douglas. Douglas is the guy who founded the FBI behavioral science “profiler” unit, and served as the basis for Scott Glen’s character in Silence of the Lambs. More recent research has cast serious doubt on the effectiveness of his type of profiling, but it’s still a fascinating read, tho a teensy bit dark.
 
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols. A wonderful novel about a struggle for water rights in a fictional New Mexico town. Mandatory reading if you’re from NM – if you’re not, you may not get it, but that’s not my problem.
 
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway. Connects the dost showing how the group of scientists and advisors that are claiming climate change is fake are the same people – literally the exact same people in many cases – who in previous decades used the exact same tactics to create public doubt that smoking causes lung cancer, coal smoke causes acid rain, and CFC harm the ozone layer.
 
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Some of his best work IMO.
 
Men Against Fire: the Problem of Battle Command in Future War by SLA Marshall. Published right after WWII, and based on interviews & research he conducted during that war, Marshall made the claim that only 25% of US soldiers actually fired their weapon with intent to kill even when they were under direct enemy fire. Hugely controversial to this day, and a number of people have seriously questioned his research methodology, so read with a grain of salt; but still well worth reading.

On a blackboard in the hall there is an announcement of when the tutors are staffing the help room, and an imploration to come.
 
Next to this, in a different handwriting (gosh, whose? ), is the note

On a blackboard in the hall there is an announcement of when the tutors are staffing the help room, and an imploration to come.
 
Next to this, in a different handwriting (gosh, whose? ), is the note