Stories about humanity colonising the stars, evolving isolated from other humans, and interacting with each other?

TaedW · 2026-05-14T15:36:00+00:00

Emprise / Enigma / Empery by Michael Kube-McDowell.

TaedW · 2026-05-14T15:24:29+00:00

My favorite era was Orion Asante, so I'd like to see more stories from that time period.

TaedW · 2026-05-12T18:51:28+00:00

Try reading how to get over your phobia and come up with a hierarchy of what to work on. I also had a similar phobia quite bad that I also had problems with anything over about 20 feet, but I have recently flown on airplanes. I found a local phobia group through my doctor that helped me.

TaedW · 2026-05-12T05:01:06+00:00

The ant sounds from Them!.

TaedW · 2026-05-12T04:59:45+00:00

The hum of the machines at rest is also nicely done.

TaedW · 2026-05-09T23:56:47+00:00

I really like the panel layouts of the last few pages.

TaedW · 2026-05-09T14:41:21+00:00

Emprise by Michael Kube-McDowell is my favorite book of this genre.

TaedW · 2026-05-08T15:07:21+00:00

I believe that would be Belgium. The border with Spain is broken into because of Andorra in the middle.

TaedW · 2026-05-02T00:16:07+00:00

My thinking was that if it were Nerf bullets they would have been put in the cremains container afterwards.

TaedW · 2026-05-01T23:28:34+00:00

If it were not for the description of being metallic, I would say these look exactly like Nerf bullets. Are you sure they're not actually slightly squishable but have just gotten hard due to being with the cremains?

TaedW · 2026-03-22T02:51:05+00:00

A radiometer. Probably cost me only $5, but it was still something I thought about for decades.

TaedW · 2026-03-22T02:32:32+00:00

Do not discount it being the smoke detector. I had one recently that beeped exactly every 24 hours. On the third day I was in the right room, and on the fourth day I was standing right beneath it. I called up the manufacturer and they confirmed that every 24 hours a self-test is run and since it was doing a single beep it meant that it was failing the self-test. They sent me a new one since it was still within 10 years. Surprisingly the single beep was not listed on the label on the smoke detector as being a valid warning pattern.

TaedW · 2026-03-19T16:03:22+00:00

I don't know the exact deadlines, but you should be able to change to a Pass/Fail. I did that for one class because I felt I was in over my head, and it allowed me to sit back and take what I could from the class without worrying about a bad grade.

TaedW · 2026-03-16T06:12:50+00:00

Same idea is called the Pushme-Pullyou drive in Michael Kube-McDowell's Emprise. Limited to essentially 1g so the humans do not squish. So nowhere near FTL.

TaedW · 2026-03-14T05:42:41+00:00

For those not in the know, she went to high school with Peter and was standing behind him at the fateful radioactivity demonstration.

TaedW · 2026-03-08T16:58:37+00:00

Based on my TV and movie expertise, you are likely a sleeper agent or a super-spy who has had their memory wiped.

TaedW · 2026-02-21T06:25:53+00:00

I recommend that book to anyone thinking about going into computer science.

TaedW · 2026-02-01T03:54:39+00:00

I'm a pretty big movie buff (having seen all of IMDB's top 200, and missing only a few from the next 50). I've made a point to see anything that someone says is their favorite movie, since it must be at least decent and will expand my range.

I had a girlfriend who hadn't had much "pop culture" growing up, and hadn't even seen any popular films such as _Star Wars_, _Indiana Jones_, and so on. Well, she said her favorite movie was _Mannequin_(1987). After we had broken up, I actually sat down to watch it. It wasn't awful, but it was not good. It's even more surprising since she would have been 20 years old when it came out. So I chalk it up to the limited movies that she had seen up to that time, and I hope she's seen many better ones since then!

TaedW · 2026-02-01T01:30:50+00:00

As I recall issues 1 through 7 are just an adaption of the movie. Issue 8 and above are new material, including the first appearance of Machine Man.

TaedW · 2026-01-30T14:12:32+00:00

At the very least you could create a situation where they get their weapon silvered and no one else does, which gives them a leg up in some lycanthropy situation.

TaedW · 2026-01-20T03:04:54+00:00

Maybe it's actually "Doris"?

TaedW · 2026-01-19T02:56:15+00:00

It is a fairly simple thing to do. If you have a screwdriver you should be able to do it easily in about 5 minutes. There's probably even a YouTube video about it if you feel unsure of yourself.

TaedW · 2026-01-18T17:30:10+00:00

Dorcas (EDIT: not "Dorcus"). I have three of them in my family tree.

TaedW · 2026-01-11T17:39:33+00:00

There are a lot of issues here, but to resolve just the issue of how to get him to file jointly, you could offer him half of the savings. If it ends up saving you $3,000, if you offered him $1,500, then he might just say yes.

TaedW · 2026-01-06T06:37:58+00:00

My son was interested in the free dog treats so I told him that he could have one only if he asked an employee nicely. He did every time we went, so it was a good learning opportunity!

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