I wish I could island hop across the Pacific in a classic flying boat. Leisurely traveling to islands like this. Back then flying was more like traveling on a train. Spacious compartments and lounges, restaurant service, a bar.

Thank you. It's been about 10 years since I've visited Discworld and figuring out how to start up again has kept me away.

Thanks!

Thanks for linking to the latest version, I appreciate it :).

i think the funnest way was how i did it. i received copies of "small gods" and "lords and ladies" in 1992. i'd never heard of him at that point (he was largely unknown in the U.S. woefully) but after a bit of time i got around to reading "small gods" and loved it. after immediately ploughing through "lords and…

The first book I read was Witches Abroad that a coworker loaned me. I fell in love instantly, and started searching for more more more! I followed it with Weird Sisters which I know is backwards, but it doesn't really matter. They both work as independent novels, and reading the previous one isn't necessary to…

I stand corrected. Apparently it was originally published with illos, then republished as a short novella without them. Pity. I wish I'd read the illustrated one as I quite like Kirby's melty cover artwork for the books.

Due to cold shrinkage, Lake Superior is now just Lake Adequate.

Dinosaurs are too a gateway drug to science. I snorted a crushed Ornithomimid phalanx in Grade Nine, and now I can't leave the house without peer review.

Two things to note before I escort myself out of the comments for being annoying:

1 - Coolman as a surname really must lead to great expectations and pressure being placed on him.

2 - From the article:

>>>While you and I write numbers using base 10, or "decimal" this civilization used base 12 ("duodecimal") and base 60…

That's the urethra.

I'll just leave this here:

Everyone should just go ahead and subscribe to Smarter Every Day. I've been for some time. He's great and needs all the support he can get.

He's great. Absolutely great. I love this. I love how he engages the kids, challenges them and then explains the theories they came up with, whilst keeping them totally hooked. ..such a great science educator. I'm a scientist and I am forever setting up "so take this..." examples in real life to show people.. I'll be…

The quality of Destin's content can't be overstated. Smarter Every Day is one of the most consistently interesting series on the internet today, chock full of fascinating subject matter and – this is the real kicker – remarkably lucid explanations. It doesn't hurt that Destin's enthusiasm and love of learning are…

What? I don't know—AAAAAAGH!!!

It even works for me to convert to the Canadian journalism weight unit, the grizzly bear, in that 1 African male bush elephant weighs the same as 10 coastal male grizzly bears (or 1 African male forest elephant = 10 inland male grizzly bears).

The dog looks more like Hitler than Hitler in this photograph.

Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler - there was a painter! He count paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!

Hitler joined a Bavarian reserve force after failing as an artist in Austria,