All time travel is also space travel. What if one wanted to go to the spot they are standing on six months from now? Some sort of correction has to take place to account for the earth’s rotation around the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Historically, Peter died an incredibly painful death after a long stretch of on-again, off-again health. Had he delegated any work, he might have bought himself more time, but experience had taught him that only by handling everything himself would anything […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, it seems that pesos aren’t a very strong currency in this 1843. –Geoff
“But wasn’t the first coin to bear the term ‘peso’ not minted in Mexico until 1863, prior to which the ‘Piece of Eight’ was the equivalent currency?” Perhaps, but remember that Frederick’s defeat of Loyola and Catherine of Aragon doubtlessly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Was… was that basic competence on Frederick’s part? Whoa. If I’m not mistaken, we’ve seen an equally disturbing turn of quasi-capability before. Perhaps there is more of Captain Tylor and less of Captain Fantastic lying under that Chapeau than one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some movies and TV shows use an orange wash plus solarization effect to suggest a desert climate or other harsh environmental conditions. I have a friend that refers to this phenomenon as the “Mexico City filter.” I think I first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The seventh section of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is entitled, simply, “The Bean Field” and begins most promisingly: “Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed, for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey, look at that. 100 full episodes in the can (plus 10 fop trainings and 2 holiday specials) in about a year and three weeks. Not too shabby at all. The immediate run up to Episode 100 was a bit […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, I have seen an actual horse on at least one occasion. I carried away from the experience that a horse has legs and a sort of long, ear-capped thing loosely similar to a head such as one sees on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…