That’s an Iranian Water Pipe.

Nah, that’s now a cooling pond for a data center.

They both have a habit of misgendering people. At least the Sontarans do it because they’re a single-gender spices, rather than spite.

The Fellow of the Ring

The Tower

(Sadly, The Return of the King is already singular.)

Diamond is Forever

You Only Live Once

This post is An All Time High.

According to “The Christmas Song,” he’s almost seven years past being considered a kid.

NJT tickets are normally subsidized by the state government. The Governor asked FIFA to chip in, so the taxpayers aren’t footing the bill for the extra Wold Cup traffic. FIFA refused, so NJT is taking it out on the attendees. (And no, no one believes the state is normally subsidizing $135 per train ticket, this is just revenge for FIFA’s “You should be thankful we’re giving you a game” attitude.)

In Vermont, at least, there’s a second clue: Standard license plates are green with white print. State cops have dark green plates with yellow writing; town owned vehicles, including police cars, have red & white plates.

TIL OS/2 has finally been retired.

Going back, the cool part of booting off a floppy is when the game finishes loading, the system is completely silent. No whir of fan or hard drive motors.

Taller, too. The A380 has an upper passenger deck for the full length of the aircraft, not just the 747’s hump up front. The length was constrained by existing airport gates. If it was longer, it would have hung out into the taxiways. (The wider wingspan and wheel base are still an issues, though.)

Does Discworld have nutters who insist the world is spherical?

Is it just that they were pissed at loosing the gold medal finals in overtime, or is there something more?

Did you just assume that bug’s gender?

You’ll need a lucite engine block to show off your shiny new pistons.

API call girl

For anyone who hasn’t heard this one: When the Concorde flew at supersonic speeds, the airframe got hot enough that it expanded about a foot longer than it was on the ground. This opened up a small gap between the flight engineer’s console and the rear bulkhead of the cockpit. On each plane’s final flight, the flight engineers stuffed their hats into the gap, which then closed up after cooling off.

I went to college in Ohio. I much preferred 30° and precipitating to 35° and precipitating, especially as a pedestrian walking to classes. Snow you can brush off before you go in, a cold rain just soaks in.

The curvy Coke bottle with a screw top also dates this to the mid 90’s or later. Before then, Coke came in a straight sided plastic screw top bottle. The classic curved glass bottles had the pry-off metal bottle caps.