Napoleon was 5’ 8”. Short guys need to find a new excuse.

This looks like the start of a Monty Python sketch.

Totally off topic, but I was at a baseball game one time when I overheard a guy talking about how he dated a girl who looked just like Jorge Posada.

(There is no mention of the inevitable nuclear holocaust that follows.)

But because she’s underage, if she had any BAC wouldn’t that have been an automatic DUI arrest?

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One thing I think is interesting about KSR is the way he seems to have thought of everything. Seems is the operative word, because I just cannot get behind his enthusiasm for 3D printing, which he treats as these magical devices that can manufacture everything from complex pharmaceuticals to spacecraft. He goes into…

I pretty much sailed through this book. Robinson can bring something to life that I don’t think I’ve seen many authors do—my ignorance perhaps—and also he has nothing short of Carl Sagan’s enthusiasm for the exploration of space.