I am looking forward to finding an airline that will package a bottle for me before I return home.

When my girls are sick, I sit up with them at night and we watch the same shows. My oldest daughter loves Gamera and Godzilla, and “flying squirrel”. (It was Rocky and Bullwinkle and monster movies for me and I found them comforting.) Recently, after a terrible bout of was likely norovirus, she turned to me and…

As an adult my sister is still creeped out out by Talky Tina, from the Living Doll episode of The Twilight Zone. It’s the only episode she won’t sit though.

As a kid, I had asthma. Medication back then wasn’t’t particularly effective, tasted awful, and had significant side effects. I spent many long nights fighting for breath, checked in by parents who tended my humidifier and their worries with regularity, wondering if I would die.

I can’t remember, but I think that I had my finger scanned when I lost my ID on the way to the airport. I had my credit cards, but not my ID. I know I had to use the same credit card to check in and get my tickets, but I think I had to also submit to a fingerprint scan at a the ticket counter. I think they also…

I have used OCR for a long time now, and searchable PDFs (even locked one’s) are a-thousand times more useful than a bookmark.

Free, as in free unless one wishes to save the PDF. Then it’s software-as-a-service.

They can and will do both.

I don’t see asking for ice as a major faux pas, but rather something to highlight cultural differences. It’s a great conversation starter.

A block or two away from Paddington station.

At a wonderful bed-and-breakfast a kid at the front desk asked if he could get me anything before he left for the night. It was hot and muggy and I asked if I could have some ice to make iced tea. He brought me 3 sad little melting pucks on a China dish. He was proactive about it the next night, and that gave me a…

Absolutely do this! But some thieves are forgers too.

We live in the Matrix. Everybody had the same third grade teacher. ;)

Did you spin around as you got stung? That’s what I reflexively did.

As drLouie below notes, it’s painful but survivable.

Thank you. It is a wonderful thing to visualize, and had you not posted it, I would have never had the visual in my head.

How do you know this? Why would that not make it onto Family Guy? 

That may have been some time ago. I just talked with a 911 dispatcher and they do not have any lookup system for that. They could call the phone company and they maybe able to find that information and call dispatch back, but that could take a long time. Likely they would find a person lost this way by pinging out…

It’s more like they make the plates smaller, stop refilling chafing dishes, reduce the quality of the food and then finally ask you to leave.

Correction: Change caption of second drone photo to match article. It should be TU-143 (a parachute recovered Tupolev drone) as noted in the article, not TU-134 which is a jet built by the same company. Both are outdated these days.