There’d still be an East from any point no matter what convex shape it was.

This is what my old housemate did, starting in the 90s. Worked out quite well for him. My dad used went round the world with the navy in the 50s and used to talk about how some other cultures did stuff like this.

When people have tried this they found you can’t just stay awake. Your brain ends up turning bits of itself off at a time, so while you can talk and move around you’re basically not fully conscious and will mix up words or not be able to move at the same time. They called it “microsleep”, and it’s the main reason why nobody tries to go for longer without sleep any more: beyond a certain point you’re not really awake or asleep.

You could do that with any of them. Super strong? Crushes friends when trying to hug them, etc.

git () { if [ "$1" = "cd" ] then shift cd "./$(command git rev-parse --show-cdup)$*" else command git "$@" fi }

Same in Edinburgh. The buses and trams have a capped fee per day but it doesn’t count if you’re coming from the airport for some reason…

The Gulf of Obliviousness

Languages and nationalities are not a one-to-one match anyway. What would you expect from a Canadian flag? French, or English? The USA has NO official language, so that makes even less sense.

I wish people would stop trying to replace words with cute little images.

Guarantee it’ll be called FloorPlanFinalCopy2.ppt and will be for the company’s previous office.

Every bad connection in the year 3453 still sounds like analogue static. Every dodgy video connection from a FTL spaceship gets VHS tracking lines as it breaks down.

Aliens connect their nanoprobes to your the main character’s PC and download the Internet so they can judge humanity.

Even if they had magic tech to do this, they’re still constrained by the MC’s shitty 10Mbit DSL. Somehow they can download everything humanity has ever done in 5 seconds, and all while pictures of it are showing up on the monitor for no good reason.

My partner has the same name as her mother.

It’s not the only way I’ve got a raise. I also got a raise once by saying I was planning on leaving. But I guess that’s pretty similar :)

Not going somewhere else to get more money isn’t the same as losing money. That’s like saying I’m saving money by not buying $expensive_item when I wouldn’t buy that type of thing anyway.

If I’m a painter, I’m not losing money by not being the CEO of RandomOtherCorp. Conflate ye not.

I’ll be your data point on the other side of the record: Tailwind is the worst thing to happen to the web.

you have an animated tattoo?

Replace “nobody” with “nobody who contributes to society; nobody I gave a shit about in the first place” and you’re on track.

I have a Binatone one in a crate here with essentially the same selection of games on it. It was a really common thing to clone, there was one chip that played them all.

No, Radofin was a UK-only brand.

You could definitely kill a villain with my laptop, if you fired it with sufficient force from a cannon.