When I saw that book in the elementary school library it was a revelation: There are books explaining the cool mysterious stuff like that! And written for kids to understand!
I think that one book is a big part of what sent me on the path to geekdom.
It wasn’t technically my first nonfiction science book, which would be “Our Friend the Atom” but I wasn’t old enough to actually read that when I had it (probably got destroyed before I could). I liked the pictures though.
Oh come on, I only have met like 1 - wait, 2, oh yeah, 3. No, 4… You know what nevermind.
I can’t read that without imagining a very extended boss fight.
Danny Trejo is of course Machete (or Uncle Machete to the Spy Kids) - even if he does occasionally rangle Rancors or other roles.
(But only when I can see him. I had no idea he had that many voice roles until looking him up just now)
I always assumed diffraction. Nice that it’s even simpler.
I actually try to watch for those at line wraps, but
but this one got me.
Sounds like time for another “Things I won’t work with”.
You might find Lojban interesting if you are not already aware. (I haven’t tried to learn it myself, I just know it exists)
Trump was explicitly the inspiration for rich-Biff in Back to the Future part 2, so if you’ve seen that, you’ll have some idea of how people thought of him.
Just people I know to be trans and working in tech. I didn’t guess about loneliness. Actually I would guess about 1/3 of those who come to mind are trans men. Also not especially antisocial compared to the rest of us, but then the joke is that the whole region is antisocial.