The exploding toilet

Absolutely amazing storytelling. Gripping yet hilarious at the same time.

Nothing to do with HN, but I'm so happy I got to read this. Now I'm going to read his other stuff, brb... :)

Articles like this are a prime example of why HN should not be about just tech. Thank you for sharing. I hope nobody flags it.

Patrick has been writing "Ask the Pilot" for years at Salon.

He's really interesting, and this is one of his best articles. If you fly a lot, I recommend looking up his Salon archives. He lives in Sommerville and used to host a yearly meetup to look at his photography- not sure if it's still alive...

Nothing to do with HN, but I was standing in a museum gift shop (waiting for my family to finish pawing over gewgaws and gimcracks) and strangers were staring at me because I was giggling uncontrollably at my phone.

How embarrassing. Thank you :-)

For a more tech-related, but less amusing column, try:

https://www.boston.com/community/blogs/askthepilot/2013/04/h...

but I prefer the _Creature from the Blue Volcano_

Read aloud in film-noir-style narration this proved an amusing tale.

I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with anything... but I liked it :)

I couldn't breath I was laughing so hard through this. Hilarious.

That was very poetic...

Try reading that and imagining it in the voice of the late Jean Shepherd. Priceless.