It Was A Time Of Howls And Tin-Rattling
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[ Returns from heated battle in Hades’ Star. ]
Also pong.
Bless you, sir. May you always know where your nail clippings went.
I felt like I was watching memes from a longer work… you’re not given any time to invest with any of the characters.
Yes, that. In the film, things explode around people you barely know or have much reason to care about. But hey, plenty of artfully billowing chiffon.
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how about this unique bottle?
At first I thought, “Cliff Stoll did a video about Klein bottles a few years ago, including how he custom-ordered a large number of a standard version. Any connection? He couldn’t have sold them all, could he? Why would he now sell a different customized version?”
Then I saw “Cliff” at the bottom of that page and clicked on thru to the site’s home page. Sure enough, Cliff Stoll. I wonder if he actually still has any from his first batch.
From 2015, “The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house.” https://youtu.be/-k3mVnRlQLU
(I first submitted the above about 30 minutes ago. I tried all the recommendations about making sure it hadn’t been posted, and adding opening the thread in MS Edge, not my usual Firefox. So far, no. If this shows up as a dupe, sorry.)
Still around. Long story. Ping!
Have a drink or two on me, barkeep.
Ping!
Have a drink or two on me, barkeep.
Bless you, sirs. May you always have replacement heads for your electric toothbrush.
Dune was the last SciFi novel I read and in fact the last novel I read. 30 yrs ago. I read non-fiction now. It had several cool premises that other SciFi does not.
Elephants here…
Just checking what happens when one posts a comment.