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{tap, tap}
Is this thing on? {hooowlllll rowunnnnnd}
Is there anybody in there?

Wait, it's all coming back to me now: the fellow prior to the fellow prior to the scarf-wearing one (the fellow whose adventures were notoriously demagnetized for being black-and-white, and hence useless for re-runs) was the original wearer of the fez. Reincarnation, however described, does not con...

And handing a MBP (for finishing this round with an excellent example) and the chalice to Rockdoctor, I shall beat a hasty retreat... Eye of newt ... tip of Sullivan's cue ... Interestingness of Davis. Let's try brewing up something really weird. Give me a few minutes to find the aqua regia . Check...

ffutures wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 5:43 pm

And handing a MBP (for finishing this round with an excellent example) and the chalice to Rockdoctor, I shall beat a hasty retreat...

Eye of newt ... tip of Sullivan's cue ... Interestingness of Davis. Let's try brewing up something really weird. Give me a few minutes to find the aqua regia.

That definitely qualifies. One to go! The topic being "parallel universes", preferably with interaction between universes. Charlie Stross 's " Merchant Princes " series, which starts with an uncertain number of parallel universes, in one of which a family discover they have a re...

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:19 am

(There's an hour I'll never get back. )

You get it back - doubled - in Purgatory, when you have to re-watch everything you wish you'd never watched in the first place.

HOTAS = Hands on Throttle and Stick ( ie : Joystick) HOSAS = Hands on Stick and Stick ( ie : 2 Joysticks) HOSAK = Hands on Stick and Keyboard HOSAM = Hands on Stick and Mouse My BDASM vocabulary is (un-)suitably expanded? From boat handling, there should also be a HOWATs - hands on wheel and thrott...

What does "HOSAS" mean?
(This may be a normal term in the "joystick" world, bit it means nowt to me.)

lets speed this up a bit.. a couple of clues and there are many clues available British author PFH STNG enemy "species Taking "PFH" as an understandable misspelling for Iain M Banks, in Excession the ImprobablyNamed GSV, after hearing about the eponymous Excession, dumps most of it's...

not my first rodeo... i survived cyclonr tracey darwin christmas 1974.... we just had the 50 year anniversary and lets just say the cyclone monument? memorial? display? whatever it is was an insult. looked like it had nothing to do with darwin or the cyclone... it looks like a tree fro "The Lo...

it soon developed a drunken bias to steer to the right, Worn potentiometer? Should be replaceable - but watch out for log- versus linear- tracks. Alternatively a dry joint, sporadically giving a change in resistance on the circuit. Ah, the joys of sensor troubleshooting. It never leaves you. Though...

Should I be knowingly cruel and ask if there's a Windows PowerShell equivalent? There doesn't seem to be any PowerShell equivalent, but you can check out gogrep on Windows. It's quite fast from what I have seen and works both with zipped and unzipped files. Can be run from within PowerShell or stan...

-exec zipgrep dealEnergyDamageWithinDesiredRange {} ... ... ... I had never heard of "zipgrep" before today, but the moment I read that, I knew what it did, most of it's usage, why it was called that, and why it was invented. Should I be knowingly cruel and ask if there's a Windows PowerS...

Firstly that it be mysterious... Achieved. Not necessarily the way you wanted, but it's definitely mysterious to me. I wish that there be a reason that some systems initially appear to be inaccessible Sounds intriguingly mysterious. Once the clash with "Email System.OXP" is fixed and I re...

I was trying gas-giant skimming a few days ago. I blew up. I don't have the Deep Horizons OXP. Here you go: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File:Deep_Horizons-Gas_Giant_Skimming.zip Ah, so the DeepHorizons address in the Wiki is wrong (as well as almost-dead). You have a Wiki-editing key, don't y...