I miss the era when the only proper response to "How do you do?" was "How do you do?"

The Memory of Sky, by Robert Reed. The third Greatship book, one that is so far removed from the others (thus far, about halfway into it) to almost qualify as a different universe entirely, except for the presence of one member from an alien race that appears in the Greatship setting.

Searching as I do from time to time through the video game crossover wonderland that is FanFiction.net, I happened to turn off the mature story filter for a split-second, during which I encountered the raunchiest, steamiest Shadow the Hedgehog-meets-Borderlands story I've ever read.

Works for me.

I'd like to burn that witch, if you know what I mean.

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Plaid Mars.

Only if you want your children involved in some weird, naked, dirt eating ritual. At least, I think I recall that from one of the Mars books...

People still watch Jeopardy?

Wow. I live very close to a Japanese community, and interact pretty regularly with a number of half-Japanese people. At a glance I wouldn't have even guessed she had Japanese ancestry, let alone a Japanese mother. I'd be interested in seeing what her father looks like, maybe his traits are just super dominant.

A crashed alien spaceship.

At first I was like "floppy disks, wtf police?"

steel jets can't fuel melt beams.

79. What is felt?

76. What is the distance between the earth and sun?

Well, shoot. He was just working on a brilliant book series with Stephen Baxter.

Ahhh...

It's possible to be liberal and hate the idea of inept governmental agencies. In fact, I'd say it's only sane to dislike waste no matter where you are on the political spectrum.

I bounce location to location, and change what I depending on the game, but navigating by gamepad is equally annoying for the lack of shortcuts. I don't use it, as a result, but I tried for a fair time because they keep pushing it as their next big thing. Back when they first unveiled Steam Machines, they had an…

Swing and a miss, kiddo. I'm all lion.

What do they mean by that? Can I not just create a new account and have a go at it once more?