Old man? Old Man??? I’m 75 and I kick ass at cell-phone photos!

Magnificent, sir/ma’am. Thank you.

Gratitude to you.

Poem source, please?

Flight would impress anyone. Even me. Now. But what would impress the Romans most would be roads. Roads were there obsession, as were the chariots that traveled them. Roads allow control of the empire. Our interstate system, begun by Eisenhower, was fashioned after the German road system of WWII, the conduit for war.

A copy of Annalee’s book is a great starter for any go-bag.

Sorry, but there’s a 1,000-mile-long shelf, mid-Atlantic, that’s ready to slip free, underwater, and if it does, you’ll not have time to worry. No place on Earth is worry-free. That’s the beauty of the universe.

Wondering if Pratchett books will be available to read in the future would have been like asking the same question in the day of Chaucer. Pratchett lit is good and valuable, and it is helpful and endearing. People will always rise to the challenge of trying to sum him up. And they will fail. He is an infinite variable.

The pen also has a tiny built-in vacuum cleaner, for those hard-to-reach places. It will not be sold commercially, but will be included with the Dyson $5,000 Extra-Suck model.

Poop released from airplane lavatories has been gradually collecting in the atmosphere and will reach critical mass October 22. This will, like every other destructive scenario, including the California super-quake, wipe out Manhattan.

Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Azimov are all part of the multi-parenting unit that raised science fiction into a big girl/boy.