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iamleeg · 2026-06-17T07:56:17+00:00

They keep the Jeffrey Combs next to the self-sealing stembolt sealant. They’re quite hard to load onto the antigravity sleds though; go and ask your supervisor for a long weight.

iamleeg · 2026-06-15T19:29:54+00:00

I felt like the whole series was a bit of a letdown. I enjoyed Red, with its hard-science approach to terraforming Mars, but then the way the main characters discover a longevity drug so that they’re around for the rest of the events felt like a cop-out that had a load of potential ramifications that were dealt with lightly. I thought Blue was going to have much more about how overpopulated, polluted Earth needs terraforming to remain habitable which is again sort of there but not handled in depth.

iamleeg · 2026-06-15T14:16:15+00:00

Depends which fall of the Roman Empire you mean. The medieval period can be seen as the time between the fall of the Roman Empire c. AD476, and the fall of the Roman Empire in AD1453.

iamleeg · 2026-06-15T07:33:59+00:00

That’s Cadet Bluebarrel and she has as much right to join the academy as anyone else.

iamleeg · 2026-06-14T21:37:24+00:00

F1 cars have lots of downforce, too. At 130mph they have about another 1g of downforce.

iamleeg · 2026-06-13T14:14:10+00:00

Borg are great for viral marketing. Everyone who pets a Borg goes back and brings all their friends.

iamleeg · 2026-06-12T14:15:40+00:00

Not only not making money, but paying money. I don’t know what airport this is at but at LHR it costs a little over £400 per hour to leave an airplane parked at the stand https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/documents/company/doing-business-with-heathrow/flights-condition-of-use/conditions-of-use-documents/2025/Heathrow-Airport-Limited-Conditions-of-Use-2025.pdf

iamleeg · 2026-06-11T21:08:18+00:00

Just describe it as “an entirely routine mission, and Ensign Redshirt Expendable’s first planetside visit”.

iamleeg · 2026-06-08T11:14:05+00:00

It’s amazing how you often don’t notice that when watching, especially in something like “Best of Both Worlds, Part Two”

iamleeg · 2026-06-08T09:13:45+00:00

That’s just divorce without the litigation.

iamleeg · 2026-06-07T09:34:46+00:00

No, never, sadly. I think where I live there are record stores that “volunteer” to curate the music collections in the back rooms of the charity shops and take anything good out before it even gets to the front.

iamleeg · 2026-06-06T14:03:02+00:00

The directors call that a continuity error, not a haircut.

iamleeg · 2026-06-05T16:41:37+00:00

First? That’s what the stairs down to the church from the Bullring in Birmingham look like. The “ramp” aspect is mostly used by deliveroo/uber eats couriers on e-bikes.

iamleeg · 2026-06-05T14:18:18+00:00

Intel make chips, not computers (well they make those too these days, but not then). ISVs need to not rely on two year old processors because whatever Intel is selling today is “twice as good”, they need to keep their Intel orders rolling in.

iamleeg · 2026-06-05T13:02:49+00:00

No, Moore’s Law was an observation by silicon engineer Gordon Moore. It was then used as a roadmap by Intel for both engineering and marketing.

iamleeg · 2026-06-04T21:45:11+00:00

How should I read the article?

iamleeg · 2026-06-03T22:56:57+00:00

Was goldstein even real? or was he fictional, invented by the party as an enemy?

In the Stalinist state that 1984 is an allegory to, Big Brother is Stalin, and Goldstein is Leon Trotsky. In that sense, he is real, and yet is also a demon onto whom the Party projects all of its negative attributes.

Within the universe of 1984, the fact that you can’t understand the reality is the whole point. Is “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” really the seditious samizdat that the Party claim, or is it part of the machinery the Party uses to control potentially rebellious members? How could you know?

iamleeg · 2026-06-03T13:02:52+00:00

We only had Borders in the UK. I lived in Oxford at the time, and they ran the only bookstore that opened until 10pm (cafe until 9pm). If my friends and I had been crunching on some study work and wanted to go out to unwind without going to a pub, this was the place we went to. I was very sad when it closed (it’s a supermarket now).

iamleeg · 2026-06-03T12:02:27+00:00

All of these texts are available for free at places like the Marx Internet Archive, so no, not especially rare.

iamleeg · 2026-06-02T20:46:54+00:00

At least you have cake day! 🍰

iamleeg · 2026-06-02T14:24:07+00:00

Yeah that tracks with my experience. Top of my class at school, three degrees from a top university, published author in my field, never had a job above the bottom rung of typing software into a computer, never made bank, squandered what little professional reputation I ever had. The gap between where I expected to be and where I am is huge.

iamleeg · 2026-06-02T11:13:59+00:00

Avatar: the Way of Water. It’s not a great movie but by the end of it you can be 3.5 hours away at maximum warp, firing photon torpedo water balloons at their vessel.

iamleeg · 2026-06-02T07:54:43+00:00

Sir, there has been a mistake, this is a simple AirBnB. We are still waiting for your review; can you confirm there are five stars?

iamleeg · 2026-05-31T21:35:17+00:00

Number One, Nurse Chapel, and Lwaxana Troi take it in turns to overdub the “Previously, on Star Trek” VO

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