Hello... Major Motoko Kusanagi (the character being portrayed by Scarlett J.) wears (is?) a full body prosthesis. Have you ever seen a prosthesis look Asian? White? I didn’t think so. Shut up and finds something more important to suffer over!

On a related category... (we) native Spanish speakers have a hard time for a while when first confronted in English with the challenge of telling apart "shit" from "sheet" (we hear one and the same word... whether someone else is uttering it, or whether it is us, trying to explain - to everyone's amusement - that…

Changed my mind. Upgraded body. Ready.

Existence By David Brin. It has 92 species aliens, AI, autistic heroic kids, roketeers, smart possies, uplifted dolphins, monkeys and octopi, like 2000 channels of virtual reality overlays and more... totally digging it.

Animal uplift...

You're driving your ship. You see a contract (another ship). You note is bearing 090. You note it's range. 5 miles. Some time passes. You note the contact's bearing, again 090. You note is range 4 miles. You immediately know how this will end (with a crash between the ships), unless you do something (which you do)

Sorry, but approaching someone by maintaining CBDR is simply the quickest way to intercept. Initially it may be counterintuitive, as the chaser might be tempted to head for where the chased IS, rather than where he will be. But once you get it, geometrically it is simply the best way to do it. That in itself is…

The Power of the Dog (Rudyard Kipling)

Wimpifying: a whiny, complainy, my-sister-is-being-mean-to-me-but-I-don't-feel-like-moving-2 feel-to-get-away-from-her, attitude sometimes adopted by 4 year old boys; sometimes adopted by their sisters. See wimpificating.

River Tam: You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn.
[she dives through the closing doors, grabs the medikit, and throws it to Simon just before the doors close]

Interesting. Hurricanes are clearly forbidden from crossing the equator.