I remember doing that. The ability to make a boot menu came in DOS 6. Good times!

Love the guide. That brings back a lot of memories. :)

Batman dancing with ancient Egyptians? What in the unholy hell???

Skip DOS? Sure you didn’t just use a custom config with some sort of RAM handler?

Most people do indeed think that Amaro Lucano and Carpano Antica Formula (the vermouth with the old timey label) taste bad. Growing up with an Italian dad ensured I have the kind of civilised palate that can appreciate that stuff. ;) Certainly in Italy and some neighbouring countries like Austria the acceptance of…

Well put. And as usual Whedon knew this over a decade ago.

My Boeing colleagues still say “stick and rudder”. I guess “yoke and rudder” sounds a bit silly, or non-respectful of the heritage. ;)

Some aircraft have yokes and some have sticks. Also yokes are often officially “control wheels”.

I thought it was originally from Hitchhiker?

Wasn’t that broken wing the result of an error while refueling, not a design fault?

Fair point.

Never heard that one, but I can believe it. By all accounts, Mark Twain was a shape-shifting time traveling alien so he was probably pretty well informed.

Indeed.

I don’t know if the title is really clear enough about what the machine does. Stops does it? ;)

You often hear people say things like, “no science fiction writer could have predicted the Internet,” when they’re talking about science fiction’s lack of predictive power.

Judging by past articles mentioned RP1, there are other people who feel like that.

The site seems to have been slashdotted. Oops.

I loooooove A Civil Campaign...