That's a lot of girth...

And enunciates! After Cowboys and Aliens all us Hatracks were wondering if he secretly had had a stroke.

Behold the llama, scientific name: lama glama, relative of the camel.

Well, it was a pretty fancy "box of scraps."

Hulk smash!

13 was pretty much free range for books for Junior Hatrack. It was about that time that I read her Dune as an on-going bedtime story. Also, one of the best presents she gets every year is a gift card to Barnes and Noble.

More fun to play with than a (Paul) Reubens' tube.

Reading The Lorax should be required before being given voting rights. Do us all a favor and stay home next November.

For some reason these put me in mind of the Cornell boxes described in Count Zero. Beautiful little tableaux.

Kids hear and understand a lot. I wouldn't be so ready to think that this wasn't Elijah's idea to begin with and the actual follow through freaked him out more than he thought it would.

Well, if they keep "breeding up," at some point his descendants would be close to pure Vulcan. With only, what, 10,000 Vulcans left they'd be willing to pay that price?

"I don't think Star Trek was ever really supposed to be about "intimidating enemies", it's supposed to be about emotional, moral, and philosophical conflicts. "

You have stumbled upon the one method of guaranteeing that I wouldn't watch the Munsters.

Someone dies in GOT who doesn't die in the books. Hmmm, who could that be? I'd say that D.B. Weiss is yanking our chains and he's talking about Beric Dondarrion.

It sounds like it could have been mentioned in Hitchhiker's but I'm pretty sure that's not it. I read Hitchhiker's much later and would have had a huge "A-HA" moment if it had been in there.

Alright, here's something that has slightly bugged me for years and if anybody can answer it, it's the io9 hivemind.

Is that the John Cheese from Monterey? The one everybody calls "Jack"?

I will tell my grandchildren that I was born at the end of the mid 1900s when computers were the size of houses and ran on giant rolls of magnetic tape and paper punch-cards.

I don't wear contacts, so correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they shift position on your eye so that at times the image could upside down or sideways? Also, would it be adjustable so that people who need corrective lenses would still be able to see the tiny screen in focus?