Hard to be 100% certain, but finding short-term privies that coincide with the approximate route of the expedition, combined with high levels of mercury and multiple references to heavy laxative use, is pretty good evidence.

sorry man, we just do what we’re paid to do, it’s the engineers and planners who name everything.

“The Big 12 is going to keep shooting itself in the foot like this unless it institutes a championship game. Until that day comes, the Big 12 will always be a bit of a joke.”

I realize he’s not “technically” the monster in the movie, but Isaac from Children of the Corn is so f’n creepy.

Yep, after I noticed it was gone. Hard to believe, considering I got mine from a thrift store grab bag.

No idea, I’m the only remotely geeky person in my office! They left many other things, although those would also have been far more obvious.

they’re trying to imitate some imaginary noble savage that exists only in their imaginations and writing.

So, by a return to form, you mean that THE CRAZY TWIST in The Visit won’t be obvious within the first 5 minutes of the movie?

sorry, it’s been a long week here.

The Deadspin “Why Your Team Sucks” articles are exaggerated humor pieces, with fans of the teams in question gladly providing most of the self-loathing material, not completely unlike Dorkin.

Is a mug broken into 2 pieces one or two artifacts?

Several people already have (note: I am not one of them, I am a lowly bureaucrat archaeologist).

There are artifacts within the games, and one thing they (the archaeogaming community) are studying/thinking about is how the relationship of characters and artifacts in games can be analogous to archaeology, and how artifacts in games can condition how modern people relate to real world archaeology.

I make it a point to not argue opinions. I loved the book and had no problems with the writing. That’s really all that matters to me, and I wish him continued success and luck, as he clearly is creating something that is resonating with and bringing joy to a lot of people, and as a person he seems well-deserving of it.

“All the weirdass stuff that you can’t even see, let alone use, is over there on the left. Only Nest even has a product you can buy.”

It’s not high literature but I don’t personally see it as bad writing, and I have read a good amount of bad sci-fi (like a lot of late-era Heinlein).

Ah, the notorious haters of the geek community, ready to eat one of their own for getting popular.

He might even have 2, as one of them has yellow and black hatching on the side along with the Ghostbusters symbol on the door and ECTO-1 as the license plate.

There is now a body farm at (well, technically outside of) Texas State University in San Marcos, in a different climate/ecosystem (although not a desert situation).