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Mike - Towards a Metric America!
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An American who fights for British Rail.

Also big on manga/anime.

He/Him
"Rescue Wings", A JASDF pilot wanting to be a fighter pilot finds himself assigned to fly a search/rescue helicopter.

2006 anime, no official EN release. Found it from an AMV I stumbled upon ~2 years ago.
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@terrible.moe, Columbo has encountered mahjong.

Don't think he'll be playing it, sadly.
I feel like that would be something to witness.
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
So, I'm watching more "Columbo", season 5, and some fucking guy is talking about economics or something, I don't know...

Anyway, this is the actual fucking dialogue.

Fucking *INCREDIBLE* to hear given what the fuck is happening right now.
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Footage of the fuck up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I close the UAV launcher, greeted by just a wall of fire to my left, as I had fired upon a mass of guys stood right beside our building without even realizing that I was like 10 feet from firing on myself with the UAV.
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
On a YT clip of "Castle Super Beast 348", I referenced old school, WorkSafe BC (also known as 'Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia') safety posters that were just "1990 CONSTRUCTION FATAL - FLAG PERSON WAS HIT BY A PICK-UP" and incredibly detailed, brutal illustrations of the incident.
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from

I still can't believe this thing is set in Cleveland.

I remember finding out from @cinematicexcrement.com's project reviewing all the Razzies winners.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What about the Custom Finishing's kits for a tracked crawler/dozer and side boom pipelayer?

(Walthers Part No. 247-7070 and 247-7274)

(Or were you trying to avoid building those kits?)
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I often think back to this passage in a 1999 DOJ study on school security; where they talk about a Sandia National Labs study that found even motivated people struggle to stay on task monitoring security cameras where nothing is happening.
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
So, I was looking for an argument I got in on Twitter, via my archive- Not important... I stumbled upon this old Tweet.

I got an email TODAY from this VN project, the first update in 2 years.

(I have NO idea what I was referring to, but I'll stand by the VN as a better use of $25.)
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
And there were the E units with red/white striped nose, that lasted into the 1990s with Metra and MARC.

📸George Cockle
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"What the hell is this?"
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What the hell is this expression?
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Going to be honest, shocked to find out this sign at New Scotland Yard is this (1972) old.

This seems like some shit they would have done in the like 90s.

(Also VLC did NOT like trying to screenshot this. Crashed twice. Actually shocked I got a screenshot.)
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I also love the effect, you don't get shit like this anymore, which fair, but also, look at this:
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Alright, bustin' out the overhead projector and transparencies.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Pretty sure I have video of what the numbers were saying about the economy...
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Also the first window's wrong. That's a passenger seat window. Driver's window's is a side sliding window.

(That said, if this was set in the 1990s and they fixed that window, they did hell of a job. Even the way the little marker lamps look.)

📸: Michael Rivera - CC-BY-SA-3.0
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Me turning on MSNBC, and discovering that apparently the fucking Senate is voting on something right now, and it sounds like they're voting on dogshit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Third time the charm?
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We have an update from the game, Strong Bad has come away with the Ford Bronco.

He is happy, but somewhat unclear what he's supposed to do with it.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I made this at like 2:30 am last night, as I was explaining to a buddy about how MSNBC was becoming MS NOW in about a week.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I was disappointed it wasn't also Wales, but I also told off the other founder on Twitter in 2022 after he said something that was a 'thank fuck he's not in charge' bad.

(Don't recall what, and I long since trashed my Twitter, so I have no easy way of looking.)
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Every time Jimmy Wales is in the news:
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What'd you do today?

Took photos of various things near me for uploading to Wikipedia, including an 'Fire Department Connection' (FDC) sign, to try and further expand our photo coverage of this.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM