Yeah, because you really want to put a guy with a phobia of being buried alive inside a small capsule, seal him up and shoot him into space where there's no air.

I appreciate the response. Are any of the above techniques doable on a budget by one's lonesome?

Eh, it was 1982 according to Wiki.

I believe the 9mm Glock 17 debuted in 1983. I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure. Why I know this I have no idea.

He may have said it in bookclub, but he said it again in the last video interview for the io9 show he did. He has said in the past that the future was too close to the window to get a read on. Some of that goes as far back as when Pricilla Presley married Michael Jackson. Someone, a sci-fi author [possibly Sterling]…

When did that novel come out though? For a long while the Glock 17 was the most common, no? The .40 I thought gained popularity over.

Gibson said, here in fact, that he needed to recalibrate his yardstick for the weirdness of the future, hence the Bigen trilogy. He's now recalibrated it and writing a new science fiction novel set in two different futures. It's called The Peripheral. He hasn't said anything else about it to my knowledge.

That would make sense. I forgot they were having him be solo after the Ponds. That ending for them wasn't all that satisfying as a viewer. It felt a bit contrived to me.

Is there a reason it's changing plot-wise?

There's a novel coming out called Darwin's Elevator that shares some of the abandoned Earth and then return vibe. It's by Jason Hough and sounds really good.

"Someday I will come up with a good reason why I am friends with the neighborhood crows."

Not a surprise.

I wouldn't presume to argue with iCarly.

Angel's Nipple is my favorite ice cream.

I find it makes me look like a nipple.

I love Playmobil. I had the pirate ship and it was awesome.

It was the first word that came to mind for the sentence, but you're right.

He tried. No one cared, or not enough cared. Here we just take it for granted. I think many parts of America do. Politics was pure and truth driven for about as long as it took the ink on the Declaration of Independence to dry.

He made Cornell Boxes. There's an AI wanting to speak with him about that....

That said, I'd have sympathy for a simple Mormon that had to go in against a Chicagoan with the presidency on the line.