PepperdineG

My first computer was an Access Matrix that I'd play on at my dad's office. It was such a neat computer back in the day as a proto-laptop with built-in modem and printer.

I blame W.H.F. Talbot

I can say for me that after my father died I posted pictures of him at some of his favorite places or from favorite trips.

I suspect the key was you used Dr Emmett Brown to tune up the equipment then plugged your electric guitar into his amplifier.

why is boxing, for example, divided into weight classes?

A combination of boxer safety and having more competitive matches.

The Beach Boys also unabashedly liked money. I saw The Beach Boys - what was left of them anyway - with one the original members talking on stage basically talking about how he still did touring because he liked driving around in a Bentley.

Both can be true in homes being unique while also functionally being like commodities. Whether a home or a spec home or tract home the pricing is based similarly to sports stats and no matter how one-of-a-kind a home is a mortgage on such a home can then be packaged with a bunch of other homes into a bond where bond investors will look at the stats of the combined homes and who the borrowers are.

They also have the GDP equivalent of JetBlue Airways

Never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly less well-known is never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

To locate spies look for 'Boris' wearing all black and 'Natasha' who use the code words 'moose and squirrel' to describe their mission.

It's interesting to me that a stone age lifestyle might for some people resemble factory work.

There was not only factory work but unpleasant factory work like making birch tar and rendering fat.

I think of the recent study with raccoons how they like to solve puzzles. That was something well-known but not actually scientifically demonstrated and measured until now.

DemBones.exe

Given the mention of Rockaway this sounds like a story that Richard Feynman would tell about how his wife.

They rather put in with Cortez then send their kids off to the annual Aztec Hunger Games [Flower Wars].

“Sooner or later everyone comes to Babylon 5."

If someone was in college this could be a way for them to get going right after they graduate without having to take some other non-art job instead.

Dog the Bounty Hunter

Recycling expensive media is a thing that was going on before the common era. Egyptian mummies were for instance wrapped in recycled papyrus. Look at the BBC wiping tapes, which when something is expensive to buy, economics can be the driver in erasing versus buying additional new media material. Even Neanderthals would recycle their expensive stone tools using the cores-on-flakes method to make smaller tools out of the old broken ones.

Do you know of any civilians anywhere in the world that currently use pagers?

Dennis Duffy, but he is the Beeper King.

catalogued and archived in some warehouse

"We have top men working on the Ark right now."

Raccoons are also social animals so they like to maintain good relations. My mom is friends with wild raccoons and they never try and break in even though they know there is food inside. The raccoons try and open the sliding glass door but they don't become home invasion robbers if they don't find food outside and can't get in through the door. What's funny is that her cats like to watch the raccoons for entertainment and will touch paws on glass but if only a screen door separates them the cats get very upset and frighten the raccoons who just want to be friends. Their intelligence seems to help them get along, like there's one raccoon that my mom has named and it comes when called and can understand my mom through the Ring doorbell. It understands that it is her voice but not her presence so will wait like a dog that has taken obedience. The raccoon is disabled having only one eye, so it survives through intelligence like befriending my mom and is the friendliest of all the raccoons.

Stephen Moore was the original Marvin, which he voiced for both the British radio and TV versions of Hitchhikers.

Yeah, have to watch out for S.R. Hadden

For all we know civilization exists inside our car battery.

Rick Sanchez uses a microverse battery

"Excuse the mess. Most unfortunate. A diode blew in one of the life support computers. When we came to revive our cleaning staff, we discovered they'd been dead for thirty thousand years. Who's going to clear away the bodies? That's what no-one seems to have an answer for."

with an annual contribution of €13.61 and a real rate of return of 3%, 400 years of annual compounding would be over €7 million. With a rate of 4% it would be €280 million.

Reminds of Futurama with billionaire Philip J Fry after unintentionally leaving 93 cents in the bank for 1000 years.

What is the point of eating something that is hard to process and digest and has no nutritional value for you

Wouldn't that make it dietary fiber then? What's functionally dietary fiber varies from species to species, but like with humans we eat things exactly like that for GI health. Birds of prey for instance eat casting (fur and feathers) which is functionally like dietary fiber for them where it would be unhealthy if you just gave them a steak without having them also eat the indigestible bits as they wouldn't be able to properly form and regurgitate pellets. Certain animals might not need something that functions like dietary fiber but for at least certain animals - like humans - eating certain indigestible things is important for good health.

Also it can depend on what people consider nefarious. For a long time I noticed drone coverage over my area regularly at night, which how they were operating over a populated area would be illegal for a civilian. Eventually I figured it out to be law enforcement drones. It's perfectly legal for there to be cop drones but people might consider them nefarious and law enforcement has been taking a boiled frog approach to drone acceptance.

You might end up with Khan Noonien Singh who will try and steal your ship then stick a bug in your ear