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I Believe You Have My Stapler
yack0 writes "After three years of demand and countless calls, emails and letters, you can finally buy a Red Swingline Stapler. Hooray! As noted in this wall street journal article and confirmed by this page at the Swingline Stapler web site you can now pick up a Red Swingline stapler for merely twice the price of a plain black stapler. However, a colleague of mine says that the online order form is reading around $16 for his right now. Now all the cubicle dwelling prairie dogs can get one step closer to burning down the building." The red stapler has become some sort of cult icon at this point.
Did you ever stop to wonder if a pelican (I think it's a sparrow in actuality) traveling at 700 miles/hour would tip off a radar operator? I'm no military genius, but I think small, 700mph birds are a sign that something is afoot.
Again, people do not understand how RADAR works.
RADAR does not track individual objects. It takes a "revolving snapshot" of reflected objects. You know that antenna that revolves in a circle? That's RADAR. RADAR operators use the equivalent of a squelch to clear up the picture. If they let everything in, they see planes, birds, rain, and clouds. In other words, it's useless. They filter out the clouds, rain, and birds until there's just non-stealthy planes. Planes like the B-2 and F-117A get filtered out with the birds, and then they drop their bombs successfully.
Put it another way: turn on the weather report & look at the RADAR view. See all the green? That's where our stealth planes hide.
When our waitress showed up, her clothes reminded me of the place Jennifer Aniston's character worked. I asked her if she had to wear 15 pieces of flair.
She apparently had no idea what I was talking about. I was so disappointed. :-)