Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

"Now the phenomenon known as ocean acidification — the lesser-known twin of climate change — is helping push the seas toward a great unraveling that threatens to scramble marine life on a scale almost too big to fathom, and far faster than first expected." - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

"The bottom line here, and one people miss all the time, is that Apple designs products for people. Not pundits or analysts or even day traders. As Tron "fights for the users," so does Apple. You may feel that Apple deliberately creates "lock-in" to the iOS/Mac/iTunes ecosystem as a business strategy, but frankly, my Ogg Vorbis loving friends out there (you know who you are), every smart consumer electronics business is rapidly trying to do the same thing. Windows is not Mac is not Chrome OS is not Kindle, etc. You opt into an ecosystem and largely, through convenience or inertia if not through conscious choice, that's where you stay." - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Unfortunately, this is more the norm than the exception for drivers in the PNW. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Always amazes me when the drivers of such cars aren't 90. - Mary B: #TeamMonique

"Shodan crawls the Internet looking for devices, many of which are programmed to answer. It has found cars, fetal heart monitors, office building heating-control systems, water treatment facilities, power plant controls, traffic lights and glucose meters. A search for the type of baby monitor used by the Gilberts reveals that more than 40,000 other people are using the IP cam–and may be sitting ducks for creepy hackers." - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

ProTip: always change those default passwords, folks. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

I've managed to avoid both, though I may want to watch Ghost Shark just so I can viciously mock it from my armchair. - Hookuh Tinypants

"I really want to like Chrome; I wanted to make it work. I kept finding ways to make it work for me throughout the week, but the workarounds just kept getting more ridiculous. No one that isn’t a total geek is going to search for workarounds so they can open a Word document and edit it on their Chromebook. On a Windows machine, there are free programs like OpenOffice that can open any Office document. Why can’t a Chromebook when it’s powered by Google Docs, which can convert Office files?" - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

"He did not reveal that he had been using PCP (angel dust), according to Rolling Stone, nor that he often smoked marijuana after games, which is what friends told the magazine." - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Well, the story claims Hernandez was using regularly and getting high after every game. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

"This is not Canada’s stealth snowmobile. Photo: branewphoto/Flickr Its code name is “Loki,” and this silent, stealthy snowmobile is being developed by the Canadian military to transport troops on secret operations in the terrorist hotbed known as the Arctic. No, seriously. According to a report from the CBC, Canada’s Department of National Defence has hired Waterloo, Ontario-based CrossChasm Technologies to develop and build the stealth snowmobile at a cost of $620,000 — or $70,000 more than the original 2011 tendering document allowed." - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

They can use it to sneak up on Sasquatch. - Eric Logan

"Braun told other players that in the preparation for his appeal, some information had become known about the collector of his urine sample, Dino Laurenzi Jr., including that he was a Cubs fan -- with the implication he might work against Braun, who played for a division rival of the Cubs. Braun, who is Jewish, also told the players that he had been told the collector was an anti-Semite." - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Aaron Rodgers vehemently defended him also. - Eric Logan

Not something you see very often in Seattle proper. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Show off - Mo Kargas

I don't even...I mean...how the hell... - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Balls! - Eivind

If he can do with a one inch penis what Bruce Lee could do with a one inch punch, girls will be lining up forever. - Akiva

"iOS still has vastly superior apps in every category that matters to me. Apps like Tweetbot, Fantastical, Yahoo! Weather, Swipes, Mailbox, Vesper, Day One, and Safari provide a vastly better experience than their counterparts or peers on Android. There are admittedly some apps that have counterparts on Android that are better (Path and Hangouts come to mind), but that has been the exception, not the rule, in my experience. There are definitely apps on Android that let you do things that you can’t do on iOS, but the apps on iOS are better for the things I want to do than they are on Android." - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

BTW, he's an editor at Droid Life. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Different strokes for different folks. - Eric - Final Countdown

The authors of the manual describe themselves as, “hunters and proud of it,” adding, “But we aren’t proud of what passes for hunting these days and especially for what passes as ‘sportsman’ hunting. Somehow, the National Rifle Association, yuppie trophy hunters, cattle barons, and the Obama Administration are in cahoots in an effort that promises to wipe wolves clean off the planet. And in that case, we choose to be saboteurs for the wild.” - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Hunting from helicopters aint huntin. - Todd Hoff

The suspect has now died from his injuries. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Ah, I saw the beginning story, but hadn't seen the update. - Jennifer Dittrich

It just means you're boring me. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

Are you playing the role of Cristo today? - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

I do that every day. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

But yeah, if I do this while you're talking it means I'm thinking, "I wonder how I can ditch this snot." - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

Two Cooper's Hawks either fighting or playing above our back yard this morning. Hard to tell which. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

1) The landscape is stunning - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

2) The people have a interesting relationship with hair. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

2a) and tattoos. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

We now have a bird bath. It's quite the hit. Northern Flicker and House Sparrow share a splash. Our little territorial Anna's Hummingbird. Water landing. An immature Towhee (I think). - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Yeah, that's a towhee. - John (bird whisperer)

Awesome. We hadn't seen any in a long time. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

First three plays: incomplete, incomplete, sack. Yep, tha'ts Tebow, alright. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Then my work here is done. - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)