It looks strangely similar to the Bug-a-Salt

I am very old school, and so I have Graffiti on my phone. It might be slower than some people can type using Swype, but I like it a lot, and it’s really good for punctuation.

“. . . it also tends to make your flu experience less severe if you do end up catching it.”

Yeah, that ‘touching your eyes’ thing is an unfortunate nervous habit of mine when I’m in public. It’s like my subconscious is trying to kill me.

I remember the CIA agent who pronounced Honoria’s name like it rhymed with gonorrhea.

Yeah. Amplified music, etc. Lots of participation. It’s nice, but it can get really loud. They have a Decibel meter up at the sound booth, but there’s an ongoing cultural tension with the musicians, who like it loud.

I would also mention bringing to church.

They’d none of ‘em be missed!

I love those things! They’re cheap as dirt at Harbor Freight, too!

I’d imagine that FaceID is not protected from police exploitation, if they want to open your phone, just as fingerprint locks are not protected.

There are times when I wonder if a vote can be crowdfunded, since members of Congress seem to be insensitive to things like having their phones ringing off the hook, demonstrations, letters, emails, etc.

‘Cause I love anime, here’s one about school girls going to Antarctica.

Goddammit!

famous posthumous performances of Tupac Shakur, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson seen in recent years weren’t really holograms

I suspect he’ll be bleeding plenty without help

An experiment I tried might be a useful addition:

Looking at the picture, I cannot help but be impressed with the fins on his rocket. Or, better written, the ‘fins’ on his ‘rocket’. They look to be thin sheets of metal spot-welded onto the cylinder, like some eight-year-old’s conception of what stabilizers are supposed to be made of.

Several years ago, I read that we should switch to smaller fish, which are healthier and more environmentally stable. The fish mentioned was sardines.

The disparities between Germany and Romania or Bulgaria are, I’d think, comparable to those between Mexico and the US.

. . . in any normal country, they’d have been naturalized ages ago. (Although sadly by that token, few countries are normal . . .)