Man, that is a really good point.

"It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand." ~ Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Fuck. All. Those. People.

Actually, based on that list, more than I realized.

I'm pretty much on the far end of that spectrum when it comes to names. I'm embarrassingly bad at memorizing them and can know somebody a week or more before their name 'clicks' in my head.

This isn't new.

You're not imagining things. The yellow brick road starts at a spiral. The other color in the spiral is red: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/18644/1027

The technical term I heard as a kid was "skip". Enabled me to listen to Deutsche Welle in the U.S. on my homemade vacuum tube regenerative short wave receiver. ;)

But are there integral trees?

I work in IT, so no, I am definitely not an early adopter of new technology. Wait for the reviews, followed by subsequent patching and revisions before jumping in.

Shield Motto : "Hail Hydra"

Things were harder for bomb squads in the old days. Imaging trying to figure out how to cut the red or blue wires in black and white.

Because Coach was the man.

I'm not such a fan when he talks, but nevertheless you've (embarrassingly!) forgotten the original - Wile E. Coyote, Genius (Super-Genius).