Phil McBride

Trouble Maker. Tech Innovation Officer. Does his own stunts.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

My only complaint is that he didn’t unbutton his suit before sitting. On the one hand it shows he is not a suit guy (and maybe the forward cocked stool at high height is semi-standing), but on the traditional end he must unbutton if not standing. @dieworkwear Thoughts?

[Ridgecrest Systems @RidgecrestSys]

There is an urban legend that the Chief Engineer of Honda, seen in this promo, is in his 80s. Whatever age he really is, he does great design work and testing.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

Bids are open.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The original Cat in the Hat costume worn by Mike Myers in the ‘CAT IN THE HAT’ film is now being auctioned off by Propstore.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

In my youth, we played away against a bad team on a mud field and I scored a goal dribbling FULL field to the extreme left corner and launched a cross turned impossible angle golazo and over celebrated (we were winning 9-0) and the other coach yelled at me frustrated.

[Kinki Muniain @Kinki_muniain]

📼 "El césped está demasiado alto, así no se puede jugar a fútbol". Una de esas frases que quedaron para la historia del deporte rey. ⚽🌱

[Hockey Patrol @HockeyPatrol]

Sidney Crosby was just trying to enjoy lunch during a vacation in the Bahamas when a 10-year-old Penguins fan spotted him nearby.

After working up the courage to ask for a photo, she got much more than she expected.

Crosby posed with her, walked over to speak with the rest of the family, talked hockey and stayed for a few more pictures.

Then came the part they did not see coming.

When the family asked for their bill, they learned Crosby had already paid for their entire lunch. He also left the young fan an autograph and a handwritten note.

No cameras. No announcement. Just a quiet gesture from one of hockey’s biggest stars.

Sidney Crosby has built a legendary career through what he does on the ice, but moments like this explain why he is respected just as much away from it.

Absolute class from Sid. 👏

Via Pittsburgh Hockey Now

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@Mr_Pilchard @Clarissima5 @HWpath Stiles is part of the traditional experience. The new accessible does not look accessible with the protruding bumps and dirt path. Could the money have been better spent elsewhere? #botchjob

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@elonmusk I first called it.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@PPathole @SpaceX @elonmusk Take more photos before the elongated body of the automobile ends up in the spin state that minimizes the kinetic rotational energy for a fixed angular momentum.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@Islessince77 @Ryan21L @Super70sSports Ellis is the real hero in Die Hard. We all just need to watch the movie enough times again until we see it.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

Happy New Year 2026!

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

Welcome to 2026, the future time of METROPOLIS, released in 1927.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

Microsoft at it again using buzzword salad when they need to streamline Windows first.

[Pavan Davuluri @pavandavuluri]

Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere. Join us at #MSIgnite to see how frontier firms are transforming with Windows and what’s next for the platform. We can’t wait to show you! https://t.co/g6yLUtZajH

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

Happy anniversary exploding whale!

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. The TV segment is classic.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@rphabel Yes they are. Back when we were actually good.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

The NBA is very concerned about the multiple arrests made as a result of the FBI’s sports gambling code.

Use code “MULTIPLEARRESTS” for a 30% Profit Boost on a three-leg parlay with Draft Kings, the official gambling partner of the NBA.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

The French use a lot of “spicy rocks.” So why can’t we?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This dot is not tiny.

This dot is 6,000 square miles, which falls short of the usual figure of 10,000 square miles of solar panels to power the US.

10,000 square miles is two Greater Los Angeles areas, all the way from Thousand Oaks to San Clemente, from Moreno Valley to the ocean.

A very large number does not magically become a small number when you pull an even bigger number out of your ass to compare it to.

Now you wanna cover that area in solar panels, and keep them all maintained, cleaned, and facing the sun?

Then you wanna make enough batteries to charge up and meet the ENTIRE POWER DEMANDS OF THE UNITED STATES over the course of a winter night?

Is this impossible?

No. Very few things are impossible. But what would it cost, and is it the lowest cost option?

Well, allow me to introduce you to the concept of a Radiothermal Steam Generator.

Let's suppose, purely for the purpose of argument, that there are some magic rocks that get hot all by themselves. In fact, if you refine them and put a whole bunch of them together, they get really hot.

If these magic rocks existed, then it would be relatively simple to gather a bunch of them together, boil some water, and make electricity with a great big steam engine running off the boiling water.

Best of all, you could run them all night, so you wouldn't need 25 trillion dollars worth of batteries. Plus more to support growing power demands.

And you wouldn't have to clean and maintain 438 Manhattan Islands' worth of solar panels.

(See? I can make a big number look even bigger by comparing it to a small number! See how this trick is played?)

Sure, you would have to throw away the rocks after they wore out and didn't get hot anymore. But they wouldn't occupy any more volume than they did when you were using them. So you could store them right there in big concrete block, no problem.

But there are two problems with Radiothermal Steam Generation.

First of all, boomers are scared of magic rocks, so they pass a whole bunch of laws to make them feel safe, to the point where any use of magic rocks costs two extra dollars in regulatory compliance for every one dollar in actual cost.

Secondly, magic rocks are clearly made up and don't exist. Otherwise we would have known about them since the early 20th century, and cheap, zero-carbon energy would be a totally solved problem.

Since this hasn't happened, magic rocks must not exist, because if they did, what civilization would be so stupid as to not use them?

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@rieraci Cuyler getting a “ground rule” HR Game 2 (ruled a bounce HR in ur press clipping & verified HR in historic baseball references) vs below when Pie Traynor talks about a Cuyler ground rule double also at Forbes but Game 7? No consistent grd rules between games 2 v 7? Same field?

[1986-92 Pittsburgh Pirates @1992Pirates]

OTD 10/15/1925

#Pittsburgh #Pirates 🏴‍☠️ became #WorldSeries  Champs a 2nd time!

Down 3-games-to-1, The #Buccos forced a 7th game at Forbes Field.

Facing the Senators’ Walter Johnson, the Bucs overcame a 4-run late-inning deficit to win 9-7!

#LetsGoBucs

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@Steigerworld @VintageHobbyGuy Looks like a 1970s second hand smoke 14 yro.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

@josephrobison @DudespostingWs He might save us all in the right post apocalyptic future timeline.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

A new OG of sartorial splendor, indeed.

[OB🎱 @OchoBaller]

@KKriegeBlog This is very OG Twitter type stuff and I’m absolutely here for it.

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

Europe thanks us (for not visiting).

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Learn to drive in the Midwest 101

[Phil McBride @therealphilmcb]

Hard to guess . . . not!

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

“Why is the window open when the heat is on”