This is a video of Youtuber ProZD sampling 40 different Jack In The Box menu items. Thankfully, not all in one sitting, because I noticed no less than 12 shirt changes. That’s a relief, because you don’t want to tempt fate trying to eat that many heart attacks in a row. Or maybe he’s just a really messy eater and kept dripping condiments on his shirt and really did do this all in one day. I’d prefer not to think about it. He gives out a few A’s and C’s, but most of the food falls in the B range. That’s not bad for fast food, especially considering my girlfriend gives most of my home cooking a D.

The brainchild of engineer Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi, this is an analog clock created in the style of an LCD digital clock. Taking the flip clock to a whole new level, it raises and lowers its number segments using a cleverly designed series of cams and levers operated by a controller circuit and stepper motors. That’s fun. Fun, and waaaay over my head as far as design goes. I couldn’t even build a sundial that works. “Did you try using your penis?” It was the only thing I did try! It kept saying it was time to stop waving it around in the yard and take a nap.

This is some police dashcam and bodycam footage of a motorcycle/foot pursuit that ends with the suspect engulfed in flames after police taze him and his backpack (carrying a gallon of gasoline) is ignited. The suspect is expected to recover and faces all sorts of felony charges, but probably also learned a valuable lesson about carrying gasoline in your backpack. I fear that I too will have to learn this lesson the hard way. “That would never happen to me,” we all tell ourselves until it does.

Because those food delivery robots have the spacial awareness of something with absolutely piss-poor spatial awareness (I’m a wordsmith), this is a video of a little food delivery bot getting hit by a train after blatantly ignoring the railroad crossing and trying to wheel itself across the tracks with a locomotive coming. I like the woman who filmed the incident “Oohing!” like it was a damsel in distress tied to the rails that got hit instead. Still, this is unfortunate, and I can’t help but feel sorry for the drunks that never got their soggy tacos and had to go to bed wasted.

Rest in peace food delivery robot and who ever ordered their food pic.twitter.com/rzA245mYGZ

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) October 25, 2022

Thanks again to my dad, who, for three tips on one day, earns himself a gold star sticker he can wear proudly in the Mediterranean, undoubtedly making all the locals jealous.

Planes: it’s hard to believe they even work. Although I suppose with enough wind wizards held captive in the cargo hold, anything is possible. This is a visualization comparing the sizes of various aircraft from diminutive one-seaters, to the 747, AND BEYOND. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that it’s entirely unnatural to fly and I’m never doing it again. I don’t care where I’m going, I’m taking a boat from now on and I’m not even thrilled about that.

Currently an already funded Kickstarter campaign, Moonwalkers are $1,100+ motorized shoes that can increase a person’s walking speed up to 250%, from around 2.5MPH to 6 or 7MPH. Each strap-on shoe has eight wheels (so there’s no need to balance), which provide an extra glide after each step. Some more info while I order another pair of Heelies online because I’m saving my $1,100 for Flubber shoes:

Sensors monitor the user’s walking gait while algorithms automatically adjust the power of the motors to match, synchronized between each foot, so the added speed increases and decreases as the user walks faster or slower. A hinged toe section flexes the same way a shoe does, so the Moonwalkers feel more comfortable and natural to walk in.

The shoes feature about a six mile range before needing a recharge, and a tap of the toe on the ground will lock the wheels so you can walk up stairs without tripping and breaking your back. So yeah, walking faster — that’s cool. You know what’s even cooler though? Not walking at all. This was supposed to be the future, where the hell are all the jetpacks?! I’m pissed about it.