Posts by Dan Deufel

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Wow! This 100x75 pixel display is well worth the $76,399.95!

Who needs eye protection anyway?

BBC: Monster cargo ship delivers '863 million tins of baked beans'

Can we cut the chatter and get on to things that really matter? Such as:

What is the cruising speed of this vessel in "furlongs per fortnight" or "angstroms per jiffy"?

What is the gravitational attraction in "micro-newtons" between the ship (sans baked beans) and a snow flake at a distance of "182.2 Smoots"?

What is the Orbital Period of Crows around the Nest in nano-light-years?

NASA reveals secrets of Curiosity’s selfies

Curiosity didn't take the pictures of itself. It did what any tourist would do... It handed the camera to a local and asked them to take the pictures. ("Does this laser make my butt look big?")

The quality of the snaps just goes to show that Marvin is has handy with a camera as he was with an Illudium Pu-36 Space Modulator.

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Souse versus scrapple

Ah, Yes. Scrapple! The Gray Meat

Having grown up in close proximity to Pennsylvania Dutch country, I grew up with scrapple. My father loved the stuff. His favorite breakfast was to take a slice of scrapple, flour it, fry it in lard, and top with a couple of eggs sunny side up.

I remember asking him when I was young, what exactly was in scrapple. His reply was that scrapple was made from the things that no self-respecting butcher would put in his sausage.