Old Man

Who better to help me deal with the SAN loss?

"Okay, pass your lab procedure to the person on your right. Your grade depends on whether that person executes the lab correctly."

Ego has a coordinate system?

It ought to be possible; the ratio of Janus/Epimetheus' masses to Saturn's are about the same as the ratio of Mars' to that of the Sun. I can't think of any other reason the phenomenon couldn't scale up. Technically what they're doing is exchanging each other's very, very close orbits on each pass.

Almost forgot--NK Jemisin's The Thousand Kingdoms was great, though again, not your conventional Tolkien fantasy.

Nice happy: When you finally get a chance to release that burden you've carried for so long. Two full days have forged and tempered a mighty column that is painful to release, but leaves no trace of its passing. It is so rigid that afterward it remains upright, a monument to the internal power of its creator. It's so strong that it resists the rushing waters that are meant to carry it away, and only with prolonged and repeated flooding does it finally succumb to its glorious last journey. Godspeed.

Hard to go wrong with anything written by Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn is a good non-standard fantasy. Reread Glen Cook's Black Company series a little while ago. It's aged pretty well. If you don't mind Napoleonic fantasy, I can also recommend Naomi Novik's Temeraire series. It's pretty lightweight. Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is the opposite of lightweight. It's well written, but if you need happy endings you may want to look elsewhere.

Are you switching over to FASERIP? That round has recorded tank kills through intervening terrain features like sand dunes. If there is a maximum amount of AP you can buy for an attack, that round has probably exceeded it.

Clearing the Neighborhood is a defined term that specifically excludes bodies that are orbiting the one in question. It occurs to me that it might exclude binary pairs, however. If there were a pair of spherical bodies orbiting a star in an arrangement like Janus - Epimetheus, then I suppose they would not be planets but a pair of moons.

That's what they get for being poor. /s

Why, did you get points for Secret ID?

I didn't know your name was David Cooper?

Massive fire drill this morning looking for a piece of paper that's a printout of something that's online. Go back into the system and click 'print'.

Of course, it'll stop being funny when they mark you as 'fired' for going awol.

No, the driller is getting the bill. They will promptly go bankrupt and reopen later under another name. 'Murica!

Kyoto--it's a magical place! Or at least it was when I was there 11 years ago. Beautiful temples, excellent food, nice people, and uncannily punctual buses.

Perfectly safe fracking well floods Arlington streets and sewers with fracking fluid

Yeah, but they usually have lots more action, fire and explosions! Wait--

I don't think it's actually news. Russia's been planning that deployment since at least last year. The announcement might be news.

At what point does Rachel Dolezal get shot in the back?

One Direction?

No, wasn't it some other foursome? Weren't they kind of famous? What was their name again?

A solar-powered, cerebral, ornery silverback, to be precise.

Nothing current? No Mastodon, 5FDP, Halestorm?