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You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.

My grandfather was in the Army Air Force and spent the war in Alaska and the Aleutian islands. As far as he was concerned the weather was as big of an enemy as the Imperial Japanese were.

My dad's job during WWII was aircraft quality control across multiple factories. He was not only exempted from the draft, he was kicked out (and sent back to flying his private plane over the western US and Canada making sure airplane parts from factory A connected properly with parts from factory B ) all four times he enlisted.

Speaking of the defeat parade, apparently the T-34 caught wind of a rumour that it was to be sent to Ukraine after the parade and tried to injure itself to avoid going into the grinder. https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1655946975836262400?cxt=HHwWgMDS2YfAjfstAAAA

Thus causing millions of people to get more exercise by taking the stairs, instead. Brilliant!

Can I believe someone who claims to be an expert on the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Explorer hanging out with The Human

I admit that I am impressed they even have a vaccine against shingles. I'd like one. I once almost got hit by a falling roofing tile during a storm and it scared the hell out of me.

I seem to be over most of my COVID symptoms other than a sore throat and an occasional cough. Hopefully I can get over this in a few days.

Does this mean Diane is one of those "fast women" my grandmother was afraid would get me?

So I'm at the restaurant waiting for my omlette when a cook tells a waitress "we have no bananas". Why is there never a barbeshop quartet arround when you need one?

"I'll hang out in The Human's lap for a while" - Explorer the Cat.

My partner once got six economy-sized bags of cat treats she didn't remember ordering. When challenged on the matter, her cat pretended to complete innocence.

Proof the world is not flat: if it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.

"When In doubt clean. Words to live by" - Explorer the Cat.

"I'm not in the way and I'm not grumpy! I just look grumpy and your tea isn't done yet." - Explorer the Cat.

"I'm under the desk. Not in the way of anything except maybe your legs. You can scoot around" - Explorer the Cat.

"The Human seems a bit upset. He doesn't know for sure if I knocked the glasses off the desk or not. He found the lens after only a few minutes crawling around. He needs to keep his glasses in the glasses case when he's not wearing them" - Explorer the Cat.

I imagine Odin and Athena had quite a play-by-mail chess game going with Nymphs and Valkyries delivering the moves back and forth as well as acting out the game on a giant board.

Well, yeah. Suspension is the most important thing for cross county at speed.

"The Human is feeling under the weather. I'll hang out with him until he gets up." - Explorer the Cat.

I see Arthur setting down the report, dialing the phone, and asking "Edward? Do you know any young people who are not ridiculously overpowered?"

"Taking a nap in the sun light. I like this" - Explorer the Cat.

I have a feeling that the Immortals are less than 100% free to rewrite their laws any way they like - that there are some constraints they can't violate, or maybe they can violate a little bit over on this edge if they are careful to stay sufficiently clear of that edge over there. And that the "can't go through walls" is a side effect which they discovered after agreeing to new rules.

"So I'm on the desk. So what? I'll get off in a few minutes. Calm down already" - Explorer the Cat.

That may not be the worst thing in the world. Unlike many small towns, Yogurt has an active culture.

No. Due to security requirements, The DoD soup is required to include numbers and symbols to meet its cryptologic standards. However, the new digital soup only needs Is and Os.

https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/wie-108 Be careful which piece of your mind you give away, Rich. You don't have a lot to spare.

/me and you get a star on your page.

Truly not D & D.

I've been cleared from supervision on the edema in my legs! I've been wearing regular compression stockings instead of Unna boots for the past few weeks, and my legs haven't rebounded on the edema side. I saw the Wound Care doctor who's been taking care of me on that yesterday, and he released me from regular checkups. So, now I can look forward to scheduling a pre-op appointment to get my torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder fixed soon. I just have one podiatrist appointment to get out of the way before I can do that.

A good comparison would be the “Robber Barons” on the Rhine River in centuries past, who would place barricades across the river to block any traffic until each vessel paid tolls. And there were dozens of such petty nobles doing this, each with their separate barricade. It eventually got so bad that the Rhine stopped being a viable route for shipping. That is what happens when there are too many unregulated fingers in a single pie. In short, we don’t want lots of small road-owners each placing their own fees such that we have to pay a hundred charges in order to cross the country. Instead, we would want nation-spanning “Road Corporations”, akin to rail or air travel, where you could cross the continent on a single company’s system, while having the choice between a few competing systems for reaching most major destinations. Of course, that brings on the same sort of regulatory issues that apply to railroads.

“We were so poor, we were naughty on purpose at Christmastime so that Santa would bring us coal for the fire!”

Rock AND Roll, to be specific.

"Gonna roll around on this stuff, then go help The Human with his stuff on the desk." - Explorer the Cat.

"I'll look alert! Not sure what I'm alerting for, but I'll look the part!" - Explorer the Cat.

Show of hands: how many people aren't surprised? *raises hand* Noah's left eye has been seen before, as a normal human eye, so presumably he learned eventually. Or his emotions are affecting his shapeshifting. Or magic glamour. Or something. Also, is it just me, or are there some parallels here between Uryuom/Seyunolu antennae sensing stuff and autism? What with the whole 'can't handle crowds and everything is loud' thing. Or am I misinterpreting things?

Explorer next to The Human where it's warm this morning

"Think I'll sit here and look 'Heroic'. At least that what The Human calls it when I look like this." - Explorer the Cat.

There are different degrees of immortality. Absolute eternal existence would likely drive a human insane, especially if that means literally outliving the heat death of the universe. On the other hand, the “no natural decline with aging” kind of immortality could be good—you stay healthy indefinitely, even though mundane injury could still kill you.