I’ve been told it’s usually at night because it’s coldest, and batteries work less well the colder they get. Makes sense to me, still sucks though.

I really wanted to like Pentiment, but I gave up on it. Still happy I bought it to reward the cool concept.

“(S)cience tends to progress through younger people, and old ideas tend to die with the originators of those ideas. through this cynical view, science progresses one coffin at a time.”

the Sting of the wild p142, J.O. Schmidt

it’s great … but how do they get the ships in the bottles?

same - why try to decipher someone else’s often flawed attempts at translation, when the original text is available?

wife acceptance factor :)

IDSPISPOPD … and I even remember what it abbreviates… why?

my guess: FiberOptic cable

Estradasphere and Ween pop to mind

In Dutch: ‘graftak’ is a beautiful way to indicate an annoying/terrible person. Literally: ‘grave-branch’, which sounds nowhere near as satisfying.