rob_t_firefly

"You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the rice."

An assistive listening device, a road interchange, a series of satellites, a news magazine, an ice cream cone, and some other stuff.

I bet there's always some spare change in the pockets.

He took a seat over there?

Elon Musk wants to do a great many things he can go cram up his butt and twist hard.

If rice has feelings, consider the unimaginable horror you're inflicting when you eat a bowl of it for lunch.

Which was originally a Stephen King novel.

I feel like no matter what happened, the chances are pretty low you'll ever be the weirdest thing a bunch of professional butthole-looking specialists have ever experienced on the job.

Congrats on being done with it!

And when blue LEDs just started being available prop designers for scifi loved them because LEDs work much better on screen than incandescent bulbs, and as blue lights were something people didn't have yet in their household objects they looked new and interesting. Look at the Doctor Who and Torchwood props from the mid 2000s, everything from the iconic Sonic Screwdriver to alien zappers and bleepers and greebles of all kinds were full of tiny blue lights because it screamed "scifi" to the viewer.

Very quickly, though, blue LEDs got cheap enough for everyday junk and manufacturers immediately shoved them into every consumer product because they were new and interesting and, thanks in part to the scifi trend, made stuff look like scifi future tech you could have in real life.

Now, a couple decades on, we're still kind of stuck there.

The game Portal genuinely lived up to the slogan "now you're thinking with portals." Soon after I started playing I'd be walking around in real life and thinking "if I put portals there and there, I could get from here to that building rooftop there and on to over there..."

I still regularly replay those games.

I knew someone who did that at a rave in the 90s. I had to make sure they stayed really hydrated for the rest of the night.

Good luck with your colonoscopy. The prep is fucking miserable, but it's definitely worth it in the end.

(Don't use foaming oven cleaner for that.)