Here’s a fan project with illustrations for the Silmarillion. It’s not entirely my style, but interesting.

Also valid. I agree, those numbers should be included.

My kid had online high school during the pandemic, and some of the questions were laughably impossible to answer. Making up an example, because I don’t remember them, but some were like:

Good. Now adjust the death rate for nuclear energy to cover the entire period that the nuclear fuel is dangerous for humans. You may have to let a few centuries pass to gather that data.

I think that “young Elrond” was already about three thousand years old at this point. I think that he’s old enough to buy beer!

Hey, you can’t run a death cult if you keep letting people live.

Stand off and nuke him from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Melon with Melon Baller.

As an AT&T subscriber, all I can say is, “Wow, the grass isn’t green on either side of the fence. In fact, it looks dead.” I hate both AT&T and, now, Verizon.

Pardon me, sir, but I’ve come to see if you’ve heard the word of Our Lord Cthulhu?

Back in the 1920's, the US Navy had some rigid airships that could launch and retrieve biplanes. To return to the airship, the planes were fitted with a ring above the top wing, and the pilots had to thread the ring onto a hook dangled from the airship, turn off their engines, and be winched up. After reading about…

It’s a good question. It requires students to be able to discern the differences between pure evil and idiocy.

I’d have gone with “furshlugginer,” but I have partaken too deeply of the writings of Alfred E. Neuman.

My grandfather really liked Certs.

First thing that I think of, whenever leprosy comes up. And I didn’t even like the books.

Doesn’t Oculus Quest 2 require a Facebook account? If so, then that’s one hell of a differentiator for the Vive. 

I share my passwords exclusively by pneumatic tube.

American Telephone & Treason

What do you want? They consulted with security expert Rudy Giuliani!

World War III happened, there just wasn’t a mass exchange of nuclear weapons; the Soviets invaded Western Europe (at least West Germany... Bonn got nuked), US forces fought (and lost) in the USSR, US intelligence and military were “Watergated to hell and back” following the loss of the war, and there were definite…