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Or further back--10,000 years, give or take--for the ancestors who did just fine without metal. For that matter, why not go back twenty million years, and congratulate the ones who hadn't evolved thumbs yet, and still had tails? Or about 550 million years to the ones who only had a single cell...

All I have to say is weird. It's not often I see anyone who looks much like me (other than my dad), and the one time I saw a true doppleganger, we both eyed each other dubiously until he got off the bus at his stop. The guy was freakishly like me; same red ponytail and beard, same beefy...

In all seriousness, I think it was an 'error of style,' where somebody wanted to go with the style of listing the descriptor after the 'class' of item, which one finds in 'technical' jargon, like military designations ("Rifle, .30cal" for the M1 Garand, for example), and old hardware catalogs...

My roomie got one off the rack at Fred Meyer a few days after we moved into this apartment in November. I noticed that they still have a big pile of them in the tech department when I ventured in for light bulbs last week.

Well, I ran a homebrew scifi campaign where one of my players--16 at the time--wanted his Synth (e.g. robot) PC to have a large, single-shot plasma-cannon built into his arm as a backup weapon. This struck me as cheesy rather than awesome. All I could think was 'damned kids.' That said, this was...

Seattle (which I just moved about 80 miles north from in November) is home to a number of game companies, including WoTC, as well as surprisingly large Penny Arcade Expo, but, for pen-and-paper gaming, it's not exactly what I'd call 'vibrant.' There are literal boatloads of pen-and-paper gamers...

If professional gaming (e.g. PC and Console games, like Halo and Counterstrike) becomes more mainstream, I can definitely see 'Gaming Law' becoming a legitimate field, but that doesn't really translate to pen-and-paper gaming, and associated, well, rules-lawyering, which is the OP references...

Sins of a Solar Empire, duh. It's like the Total War series, in space, but real-time (however, the real-timeness is slow-paced enough to essentially be a 'smoothed out' version of the turns you get in the TW series). It's like freakin' crack. Thanks to that game, and a chemistry midterm, I've...

Sometimes I'll get up in the morning, and have a total lack of self-awareness until I look in the mirror, then realize "Hey, that hairy giant of a man is me!" It's not a happy or unhappy realization; just sort of a 'huh' moment. It's more the realization immediately afterward that I wasn't 'me'...

Well, you asked for it...

Flashman's Lady, for the time being. Next, I'm going to try to find a copy A Game of Thrones and start rereading the series.

ROFL! That's quotable. EDIT: I just realized the irony of what I just said. Recalibrate Ironimeters accordingly. That is all.

Congrats! Having been accepted to a university just five months ago, and starting one month ago, I can safely tell you that it'll be some time before that glee goes away.

I liked the yellow-faced sunglasses guy. "I saw him again in my dream..."

*Hypocritically admonishes Galeros for making pointless posts to up his count*

I actually came up with an amusing game a couple years ago which I call Crapjack. Every player starts with the standard set of 7 polyhedral dice (D4/6/8/10/12/20/100), and everybody rolls, and the first to get the highest under 22 (e.g. 21 in one roll of D100 would trump all other rolls) wins...

Yep. Temperature Kelvin is essentially how fast the atoms and molecules in an area are moving on average. To be a negative temperature kelvin, the particles would have to be wiggling...backwards (which is nonsensical, because motion is a vector; it can only have a positive or zero value, and a...

It's -273 Kelvin here. It's snowing...backwards.

It is dark. It is very likely you will be eaten by grues.