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I store the action groups for each class in my database, so I only need to pull up the class information page of the webapp to check them.

Either ASTEROID or MOUSETRAP on the ZX-81. The cassette also has STARS and CHASE listed on it, but I don't remember either one of those.

Yeah, inland Texas can get quite cold. However, if you were in Austin, you didn't hit the "wall". You need some real Gulf Coast humidity for the whole effect.

May or June of 2012, I guess. 0.13.3 demo. The 0.15 version was the current version at the time.

I deleted the downloads from my system to free up disk space. (Of course, when a new version comes out, I archive the old install with all the mods I'm using.)

I've lived here most of my life, and I know that feeling exactly. Coming out of baggage claim, into the heat and humidity and the car exhaust of a parking garage. Bleh.

I consider it "paperwork" even if it's handled electronically.

"Let's have a telecon to discuss the meeting we'll be having tomorrow to set up the agenda for the videoconference next week." >Hey, <coworker>, what's the videoconference about? "I think we're supposed to be discussing the lack of output. Something about the reports we spent last week putting together."

We do not build new sidewalks every time they melt! We just wait for new ones to congeal out of the air. Summer is not my favorite time of year around here. I'd have to seriously question your former boss's sanity if he moved here after visiting in the summer.

Any "paperwork about paperwork" should probably fall into that category. Hence: Also, any paperwork that is grossly unnecessary. Seriously, if you want to declare something as not "Publicly Available" ten years later, there's something wrong, and no amount of meetings and paperwork is going to fix it. Especially when the paper is available on ebay, Amazon, and assorted booksellers; contains a particular typo that makes it very clearly responsible for an entire line of Apollo hoax theories; and has been cited in numerous books, papers, and internet forum arguments to show that there's no way the Chinese haven't noticed it yet. What we need is a reduction in clueless bureaucrats, really.

The "Paperwork Reduction Act". Which only creates more needless paperwork for all the paperwork.

What the hell is "snow"? Is it related to that ice stuff that shuts this city down? (It's quite impressive to see an entire seven-story office building empty out so everyone can go look at the snow. And it's melting as soon as it lands on anything.) I like winter. It's when the leaves (slightly) change color and drop off the trees. The temperature dips into the 50s, then back to the 80s, then into the 60s, then the 70s, then the 30s for one night (which makes everyone fear the overpasses), back to the 80s, then the 40s for a week, and then we put on shorts and celebrate Christmas. Nothing quite like an evening at the mother-in-law's, with the fire roaring while I'm roaring that it's 90+ degrees in the house, are you people insane?!? Of course, in cold weather, you can add as many layers as you want. In summer, you can only take off a finite number of layers. (And that number is even further limited by HR, of course.) It's just tiring having to check the overnight hourly forecast to see what time you need to switch from the heavy blanket to the thinnest sheet.

1 = 1. 1 + 1 = 1? Edit: 1 + 1 = 1 1 + 1 (- 1)=1 (- 1) 1 = 0 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) = (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) + 1 (except this one is one of the ones that is actually not one, but zero) 2 + 2 = 2 + 2 + 1 2 + 2 = 5 :. Crimethink doubleplusungood. I love Big Brother.

One of my personal requirements is that all crewed vessels must have a pilot onboard. This includes doing an Apollo-style mission, both vessels must have a pilot. I can revert to prevent Loss-of-Kerbal events, but I don't. Lives saved must be done legitimately. Every vessel should be designed with an LES to prevent Kerbal loss. (I edit the Sepratron to be available as soon as the decoupler is, just for this purpose.)

Kerbals are not an expendable resource, and shall not be treated as such.

Simply put, that's wrong. The people that create the paperwork are very different from the people that make the need for paperwork.

Holidays? Bah! Humbug!

Clarification: Is this the people that create a need for paperwork to be done, or people that actually create the paperwork? And if Bt is total, should the variable be Bp instead?

*Yakety Sax*

I am deeply saddened by the fact that I can only like this post once.

You don't get to claim that engineering is weird when you have established that actual space wizards exist. That's like complaining about magic in Harry Potter. In short, at some point, you have to take the brain off the hook and just say "ok, groovy", or it's not going to make any sense. I have a problem getting into any super-hero/comic book type of fiction because my mind just can't accept such nonsense. Even something like Batman, that involves no super-powers at all, but ignores how the world works. How does Batman ever get anyone arrested? Does the concept of chain of custody of evidence ever enter the minds of anyone? "Well, normally, we'd need a warrant, or at least probable cause. But in this case, that crazy guy that dresses like wildlife told us these guys committed a crime. I guess we should lock them up." Seriously, how has a federal investigation not taken down the entire political machine in Gotham?

Ah. I can see that. (Going with ST, since SW never addressed it, and I haven't gotten that deep into the extended universe.) Federation ship designs are pretty standard. You have a saucer section + engines, and maybe a secondary hull. Those are pretty standard parts assembled into a starship. Now, for example, let's take a saucer section. It's simply a series of layers, stacked one on top of the other. The bottom layer is small, the next is slightly larger, continuing up to the mid-deck, and the getting smaller again until the bridge level, which is a single "room". If you look at a "standard" deck, it's made up of concentric rings, surrounding a central core (which if memory is not corrupted, contains the main computer). Each corridor is identical. The rooms are identical, with certain special rooms (sickbay, transporter room, etc.), since most of the rooms are going to be crew berthing. It's easy to see how each section could be copied and extended, making extensions for each concentric ring of corridor. Once you have the internals blocked out, you can run plumbing/cabling/whatever they use in the spaces outside the inhabited areas, and then cover over the whole with a (for some reason) streamlined hull plating, much like a submarine's outer hull covers the pressure hull. You ever seen construction of a submarine?

You're willing to accept things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, magic sensors, mater-energy conversion, single-biome planets, physics that changes on a weekly basis, and so on, but orbital construction is where you draw the line? Even though we've built two space stations on orbit? Seriously, though, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? While the Star Wars canon never revealed much, the Star Trek canon discussed construction/refit of starships in orbital facilities.

I took my kid to see the first Hobbit movie. He'd read the book and seen the animated movie. At nine, he knew enough to know we wouldn't be bothering with the other two.

It took me many years and many attempts to finish the books. I've recently restarted it, though. The organization of The Two Towers is odd. Telling the entire story of one party before switching to the other party makes a large divide in it. Perhaps it would have been better if the stories alternated by chapter, or some other way.