Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert!

#2 isn't an A-Wing. It's Obi-Wan's Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor. The Eta-2 was a Clone Wars era fighter pod, while the A-Wing was developed during the rebellion by the Alliance ...

Now back to my basement lair!

(username for the double win)

The casino won't settle. They are legally protected against machine failures and faults. This kinda thing happens a good bit and no player has ever won more than a meal. The second they start settling for cash, the whole industry goes bye bye.

Proud Original Trilogy Purist here. That said, the new one ain't so bad.

And the Thrawn series sucked. It sucked bad.

Given the icon, I'm saying clicklovers is intentional.

The link is empty ...

A mechanical Ouija planchette, especially useful for talking to the ghosts of Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie.

Kwisatz Haderach, chocolate, 4x

"Even the clown was searched. One guard held onto his big bunch of balloons ... " more than implies that the balloons were confiscated.

It's a manually operated second hand! These were commonplace before advances in spring technology drove hundreds of second-hand men out of business. It would be years before the minutemen and their hourly brethren would feel the sting ...

Kwisatz Haderach, chocolate, 4x

It's a handheld rail polisher for railroad tracks. It just needs a new buffing pad, then clamp it on and get yer shine on.

Kwisatz Haderach, 4x, Chocolate

You made me do this, Peepi! I hate to be the bad guy, but you must be disciplined! Or you'll never learn!

My vertigo flipped at the .03 second mark.

Thanks to both of you. Already ordered the Utamin. Now for my Jaws-kun!

Anyone know a good way (site) to but this stuff in the States?

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut. Before I got treatment for Depression, this was the only thing that could even temper the crush of it all. The book is sad and innocent and cynical from sentence to sentence. I read it almost monthly for 24 years ...

Now that I have medications, I read it once a year to remind me of how bad things were and how they've gotten slowly better.

I find rereading it reinforces who I try to be. It kinda washes away the futility of being Lawful Good in a Neutral Evil world.