Scrubs, too. There was a guy with Walking Corpse syndrome at one point, and I recognized a few others as well.

My Razer BlackWidow (not Ultimate) is a couple years old now and I love it. I type faster and more confidently on it, and it games better too. Wouldn't give it up for the world. I only wish it was quiet enough that I could buy one for the office, too, because the crappy Dell membrane keyboard I use at work is just…

You're mixing two, actually. There was the one with Duff Gardens (with the 'Small World' ride) and then another with Itchy & Scratchy Land which had the robots going insane.

Given the roosters I've met, a relationship to dinosaurs doesn't seem far-fetched in the least. Those buggers are nasty.

You know, I heard your post in Hermes' brain-slug monotone...

My wife and I have this argument all the time. Her definitions of "this" and "next" are different from mine. I have no idea why.

Ah, so I was right... there is no love triangle in Z for Zachariah. I remember reading the book oh-so-long ago, but I definitely did not remember there being a third person. Thanks, Twilight. Who knows what else you'll ruin?

I was born firmly on the right-hand side of that chart (1985) and I fully, 100% agree with you.

Huh. Why is it that, of the pictures above, it's the Finnish one from 1939 that makes my brain go "yup, that's a gas mask"?

This looks like a fascinating book; it's going on my TBR pile. Thanks for the in-depth look inside, Annalee! =)

Someday MacGregor will play old-Obi Wan in some kind of Disney-fied flashback film set just before A New Hope, and the cycle will be complete.

I think Adam was saying that the same amount of debt has less of an impact when it's spread over three cards, rather than all combined on one. If you have $1000 in debt, and one card with a $1500 limit, you've got a 66% credit utilization. If you have $1000 in debt on three cards with $1500, $1000 and $500 limits, now…

Very cool. The detail is phenomenal. If I had gobs of disposable income, my house would be full of this kind of stuff, and not just from Star Wars.

Wow, that is a striking blend between Ewan MacGregor and Alec Guiness's features. It's... eerie, actually.

Absolutely. I had sort of figured out my role (through much trial and error) by the time she had started to come out of it. Still, Allie's description helped me toward, shall we say, a more visceral understanding, for which I'm grateful.

My wife went through a pretty serious bout with depression a few years ago, and Allie pretty much nailed it... and now I feel awful for being one of the people who didn't understand what she was going through :/

Annnnnd... there it is, folks.

I thought long-haul truckers already had this technology.

I'm surprised nobody's made a GIF of that yet—the sitting down, the standing up, an endless loop of awesome.

One of the major problems with being a history enthusiast is that there's really no way to test or verify the theories =) I would love to at some point see a computer simulation of what 20,000 years of weather (based on known climate data for a given region) would do to a structure.