No argument here on funding.

Okay, I can see a lot of mad here about TOR over this, but I think some understanding might be in order.

Should have thought of that.  Thanks.

I will admit to forking loving that show, but I think the most I will do with this is put it on my wife’s computer. Without telling her.

Mainly the risks are that others will look at you and feel schadenfreude.

With the right drug cocktail, it can be managed down to lingering angst.

You know us well.

People who can be identified as members of groups must be taught to advocate for themselves in individual situations.

Honestly, I think it’s both because tone is hard to get on the interwebs and because some people are actually very disingenuous assholes.  Glad to see that you’re not one of them.  This has now become my favourite online conversation of the week.

Thanks for the kind words.  I was procrastinating writing, and figured I’d do something at least partially constructive.

I’m going to guess that a whole lot of people are going to pile on telling you what a foolish question this is.

Shark:  Sorry, did you just say you’re MEATIER?  Tell me more...

Yeah, my worry is that I’d get the thing, see it working like a dream, then switch to Win10 and have it turn into a pumpkin.

Except that it still is. Every Windows laptop I've ever owned slows down and needs me to weed the garden.  You can tell me the registry works more efficiently, and if you throw enough buzzwords at me I guess I'll believe you, but my experience is that Windows slows down over time, the way that, say, my Pixel C does…

You’ve almost got me convinced on this thing. I need to run some crap legacy Windows software, so I can’t go full Chromebook right now. My problem with Windows machines is that they end up running so much crap in the background and having such bloated registries, that they always slow down. Is this gonna be like that?

I’m not sure if his stuff has dated well to someone approaching it for the first time, but I still have a huge affection for his writing. When the new one came out a few years ago, I read it right away and it was like comfort food. I hope I haven’t led you wrong. If you’re going for it, the one I read first was Emerald…

I don’t think I can beat that — though I did invest emotionally in Daniel Keys Moran back in the early nineties. His “Tales of the Continuing Time” was, I don’t know, projected at something like thirty books before it was done. I think there might have been five in total. One came out a few years ago, but it was after…

As a guy who started reading A Song of Ice and Fire more than twenty years ago, and is only just now beginning to get a little peeved at the delays, I’m fine with this.  They can take a couple of years and still be way ahead of Martin.  As long as they do the story right, the way they have all along, I’ll wait for it.

Now I have the Yorkdale radio jingle running in my head.

Hunting and eating delicious tardigrade.