Okay.

Did I see Delia Derbyshire's name in there somewhere?

@I Think We're Property: 3 jobs ago. Not a very good one. Food service. Segregated kitchen. Owner of the franchise was a Swiss citizen (with very good accountants), so he actually hired us as contractors, which meant that we were responsible for our own payroll and tax expenses.

@will.I.spin: I wound up seeing it at a forced church community center lock-in. It was the most interesting possible thing to do there, and it bored me to death.

I once spent an entire December 21, 2006 explaining to coworkers that there is no way to predict earthquakes, solar flares, rogue asteroid impacts, dark matter-planet collisions, the Earth's core suddenly and inexplicably dying, the Moon falling to earth, the Third Impact, the atmosphere boiling off, the Earth's…

VIOLET HOUR! CONCEAL YOURSELVES!

I tried doing this with the sun room of my fraternity house. In my case, I just punched holes in a black bedsheet and pushed LED Christmas lights through them.

This sounds more like an unscheduled chemical release from a plant or refinery than anything else. Houston and Beaumont, TX, have several of these every year, and it results in the sickening of hundreds of motorists downwind of Port Arthur and Pasadena when it does happen.

@Chip Skylark of Space: Was that the one where Bryan Cranston had to keep driving westward or his ears would explode into his brain?

Kudos to her for taking the initiative, but it looks like "grinding" is going to take a pretty quick backseat to corporate telecom when (not 'if') this tech gets off the ground.

@Vundal: If you liked "Sleepless" you should check out "Mek." It's an earlier Ellis experiment focusing specifically on biohacking subculture. I think it's printed in the same anthology as "Red" and "Reload."

"Just to be clear, our lab wasn't attempting to mix strains of the common cold with Ebola. That would be 'WRONG.'" [nods]

OMG that's David Tennant....in his natural accent...

@AlexJDA: OMG I KNOW. I just realized this on the third watch-through. I was so used to his estuary accent that I forgot that he was Scottish until just now.

@8x10: I won a Boy Scout decathalon in the Boundary Waters by identifying the difference between native Great Lakes mussels and invasive zebra mussels.

I grew up on the Illinois River, and watched invasive Asian carp very quickly take over the entire river system, eating everything in the environment.

I am from the Midwest. I have driven through a foot of snow in blizzard conditions on regular-weather tires to see a concert.

I never really thought of Nick Fury as a less visible character than half of the Avengers, whichever roster they had.

@QLAB: Ditto on Myth for backend, XBMC for front.

@rebeldevil: Lived in Austin last year during the record drought, and my AC only worked every other day.