Don Edwards

Have you tested speed between your computer and your wife's, just in your home network over wifi?
That speed is an absolute upper limit on the speed at which you can get anywhere else. (Assuming your wife's computer isn't so lame that it can't run its network connection at full wifi speed.)

It could also be the fact that you just had surgery...
Unless an actual doctor says otherwise, I would suggest that you push yourself to the point of discomfort or tiredness, but not pain or exhaustion. And if the discomfort or tiredness starts coming sooner and sooner, you need to talk with one or more of the docs again.

I will be very careful to never consume a half ton of bananas in one day. It might be difficult, but I think I can manage that.

Nowadays we could put a smartphone - with the possible exception of a battery to last all day - in a wristwatch.
But imagine typing on that on-screen keyboard...

Fruit is intended to be eaten - in hopes that you (or some animal) will swallow the seeds and deposit them somewhere else in a nice lump of fertilizer.
This even extends to hard-to-eat fruits like ghost peppers. (Yes, botanically they are fruit. So are tomatoes, and several other things that are culinary vegetables.) The catch there is that the seeds will rarely survive the typical mammalian herbivore's teeth and digestive system, so US eating them is not good for the plant's genome. They can pass through a bird's beak and digestive system with a rather high survival rate, though... and birds don't have the receptors to notice capsicum.

I love the way you word that - it sounds like either you or the person you're addressing are an alien.

Regarding Elliot's conjured clothing, I'd draw a distinction between two categories... one of which, I suspect, will not interest him any time soon.
Haute couture stuff, runway showpieces, fursuits, and the like - those are pieces of art, and part of their draw is their uniqueness. If he conjures a duplicate, that's taking something important away from the designers and purchasers.
Stuff that is in mass production... well, it's in mass production. There's no uniqueness to take away. And his conjuring one does not deprive the sellers of one, so he isn't taking anything physical from them. At most, he's taking away a potential sale... and were it not for his powers, he wouldn't be buying a dress anyway.
The ethics get slightly more complicated when he creates clothes for his sister or female friends, but it's not much different than a group of girls trading clothes among themselves.
Although I do think he'd bug the holy cr** out of the other contestants on Project Runway.

I love the way you word that - it sounds like either you or the person you're addressing are an alien.

And I'm in the process of writing a story where time sometimes goes backward.
(Chapters 1, 3-4, and 6 - that's how far I've gotten to date - cover from Wednesday evening through Friday evening. Chapters 2 and 5 are the following Monday morning.)

I know Dan doesn't read this forum, and I'm only one voice among many, but I'm saying this here anyway...
I'm currently regularly reading about 80 webcomics, and among them are maybe three I'd read for the graphic art. EGS is not one of those few. I'm here for the story and the characters. One of Dan's characters cosplaying as some other character will rarely interest me more than a blank page would. If his sketches and pinups don't reflect on his characters or story, then I'd actually prefer he not take the time to post them. (And I know how little of his time that should take.)
Feel free to disagree. It's largely a matter of taste, and people have different tastes.
 

I know Dan doesn't read this forum, and I'm only one voice among many, but I'm saying this here anyway...
I'm currently regularly reading about 80 webcomics, and among them are maybe three I'd read for the graphic art. EGS is not one of those few. I'm here for the story and the characters. One of Dan's characters cosplaying as some other character will rarely interest me more than a blank page would. If his sketches and pinups don't reflect on his characters or story, then I'd actually prefer he not take the time to post them. (And I know how little of his time that should take.)
Feel free to disagree. It's largely a matter of taste, and people have different tastes.
 

Oedipus gets a bum rap.
He was separated from his parents at a very early age (due to a prophecy that he would kill his father the king), so he didn't know his biological mother and father.
Years later some stranger attacked him on the road for no apparent reason, and he successfully defended himself from the murderous stranger.
Continuing on his journey, he arrived at a city in crisis. In addition to said crisis, its king was missing and presumed dead, and had no heirs. He resolved the crisis and in exchange was offered the throne if he would marry the prior king's widow - whom he had never met before. He accepted the deal.
Later he found out that the stranger who had attacked him was his father and the widow he had married was his mother. Which he got more than a bit upset about.

From one of my favorite webcomics:
"I'm afraid I've come to the conclusion that students go into psychology for ulterior motives. Either they want to learn how to manipulate people, or they're kooky. So, is it really any wonder that the basic psychological model of the mind is that of a manipulative kook?
"Psychology really hasn't had its Einstein yet. Well, actually, I don't think they've had their Newton yet either. Or Galileo. (I'm not even sure about Aristotle.)
"I kind of get the impression that their basic model exists on the back of a giant turtle in a bowl of water, supported by four giant elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle...
"... and most of their research goes into find out what color the elephants paint their toenails."

He was being hyperintellipygian.

Nancy Sinatra's song is not applicable in this case.

Seems like if it's a good cup, it won't live long.

Warn her, apologize in advance, and let her know you appreciate her.
In fact, even when everything is going great, let her know you appreciate her.

Warn her, apologize in advance, and let her know you appreciate her.
In fact, even when everything is going great, let her know you appreciate her.

Warn her, apologize in advance, and let her know you appreciate her.
In fact, even when everything is going great, let her know you appreciate her.

Warn her, apologize in advance, and let her know you appreciate her.
In fact, even when everything is going great, let her know you appreciate her.

Except that in some versions of the multiverse theory, every universe (and therefore every collection of those universal constants) that could exist, does. (Or, perhaps, did or will. Depending on how time relates from one universe to another.)
Therefore, all the combinations that allow for star and planet formation exist.
We think this one is special - and it is, to us - because we can see it.
But somewhere out there is another planet inhabited by sapient beings. They refer to themselves as "us" and the place they live as "here", and they gaze at the stars and wonder if they are the only ones...

Also, as I've suggested, it could be partially true... i.e. first-generation elves can't have children with humans but if two "sterile" elves get it on, things can happen, and what their children are capable of is not necessarily the same. Between elves being rare, and elves not being told about the exception...
(If first-generation elves could have children with humans, keeping that a secret from the first-generation elves would be more than a bit difficult.)

A witch's broom is, of course, a thinly-disguised magical staff.

A witch's broom is, of course, a thinly-disguised magical staff.

Odd speculation: 1st-generation elves can only have children with each other (and, nowadays, they are rare - and have only been told that they can't have children, so they don't seek each other out for the purpose). But when a pair of elves have a child, there is some chance that the child will be able to have children with pure-humans.
Odd speculation #2: it used to be that elves could crossbreed freely with humans, but that was taken away in some previous magic reset. Because things were getting to the point that magic use was commonplace. Those with "too much" fairy ancestry became sterile - but some small amount was allowed, so there would be apparently-human magic-users.