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...roommates and I found unlikely inspiration late one night sophomore year, while sitting on a wooden bench in the park outside Peet’s Coffee. As we passed around a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, we began to cross and uncross our legs in unison. Passersby eyed us curiously as we crossed and uncrossed with theatrical flourish and we saw the hint of potential in their stares...
Reclining in an office chair with his legs propped up on his wrap-around wooden desk, Verba nonchalantly acknowledges his hectic schedule...
TrueValue hardware stores are betting on the money-making potential of his invention—a plastic sheath which fits under wooden support posts, preventing them from rotting while in the ground...
Consolini’s attention switched to support posts only after retirement. He decided to build a traditional Belizean house on his waterfront property. In the process, he learned that the wooden posts used to keep the house above rainy season floods and the ubiquitous mosquitoes are doomed to rot within 15 to 20 years of being implanted...
...this follow-up to 1998's hugely popular sci-fi horror Half Life border on the obsessive-compulsive with their attention to detail: human faces with more than 40 working muscles; characters that lip-synch their lines no matter what language they are speaking; objects like mattresses and wooden frames that, when shot, explode and shatter in the precise directions you'd expect. The plot involves a hostile alien takeover of the strangely named human habitation City 17, but that, like all the clever physics, is merely a means to the end of scaring the bejesus out of players. Easily...