I've been known to say, "If we were living in a dystopian future, would we know it?"

As always when our favorite futurists write the future in front of our feet, there's one facet that culture will throw up in front of it that changes everything.

One of the good parts of the "Blue Ant Trilogy" was realizing just how much of the wild sounding stuff he was writing about actually existed. I remember I saw a video of an Air Penguin a few months after I read it and was stunned that he hadn't made it up.

Until I have my Hosaka and a trode set or a set of VL shades, we're not there yet. Close...but not yet.

My rocket booster fired and now I've got space on my hands...

Is Corpare Metal still around?

I recently had a year like that - mom died, guy I'd dated years ago died, dad died, brother-in-law died - it felt that I couldn't catch my breath, waiting for death to catch up with me. And it does, eventually. You have to remember that, without obsessing over it. Friends and family - love them while you're still here…

I know we all talk about Hannibal Lecter as suave and cool and things but...the guy's a freaking CANNIBAL

The Mayor of Sunnydale

The Fischer pens can be a little hit and miss I've found, they also don't sit that well unused and older ones are very bad for stopping after a while. I'm not a fan of them because you can't see the ink level, generally to ensure my pens always work I just use the V5 style nib pens, as long as they have ink they work.

Thank you so much for sharing that with me. Really, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.

I've been using these sites since back in the halcyon days when Fleshbot and Consumerist were still part of it. At least 2008? I hate to say that the design has gotten better, even though I hate Kinja was all the force of the empty place where my soul used to be.

Are you kidding? Those stickers were why I decided to hire him.

They really didn't need to pay anyone to get a drunk guy's opinion. Just read the comment section any given Friday night!

Well, shit. Now I feel like a fool for drunk-using Gizmodo for free all these years... :(

I'm 34 and my mom is in that stage now, only she's just in her 60s. I think about getting old a lot and desperately want to think about it a bit less. I know it's good to be aware but I'm TOO aware. May I ask how you put it aside eventually?

I'm 52. I think about getting really old every time I get out of a chair.