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Eeeeee! I don't always know when I have an impact′, but apparently I did at the Dallas passport agency. I went there to get what they call an emergency passport. That's one for travel in 14 days or less. And I showed them my signature guide. I explained that they help visually impaired folks sign on the line and shows us how long the signature should be. Ten months later, Greg, my friend who works for the passport center in Phoenix, went to that same agency to get a passport for his son. They now have signature guides. And the guy goes, this lady was in here in January. She showed them to me, and we ordered a bunch of them. Greg goes, oh yeah? I sent her to you. I'm gonna call her and let her know. When he told me that, I just squealed with excitement.
@cstross As I like to say: Christianity is like football in this respect. Everybody nearly everywhere in the world knows what you‘re talking about when you mention football, but add „American“ and it suddenly is a totally different ballgame.
Got to get back to troll stomping. With great weight and giant feet comes great responsibility and giant orange puddles of troll goo.
Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer.

Quanta Magazine
I got the words "jacuzzi" and "yakuza" confused. Now I'm in hot water with the Japanese mafia.
Am considering writing a somewhat claustrophobic comedy of manners about the foibles of dragon romance and how to start one. Hobbits and Hobbies perhaps? Or, Dwarves and Derivations?
Olympic sports categorized:
YEET THING: handball, volleyball, football (soccer), discus, shotput, hammer throw, basketball, water polo, curling
NO YEETING: swimming, running, speed skating, boxing, wrestling, taekwondo, breakdancing, rowing
YEET SELF: ski jump, gymnastics, diving, figure skating, high jump, long jump, triple jump, hurdles, skateboarding, skiing (freestyle), snowboarding, trampoline
YEET FRIEND: artistic swimming, couples figure skating
YEET ENEMY: judo
YEETING NOT MANDATORY, BUT STRONGLY ENCOURAGED: rugby, rhythmic gymnastics, (American) flag football
AVOID YEETING AT ALL COSTS: sport climbing, weightlifting, surfing, ski mountaineering, cycling, canoeing, equestrian, sailing, bobsled, skeleton, luge, skiing (except freestyle), fencing, relay race
USE STICK TO YEET THING: hockey, baseball/softball, tennis, cricket, lacrosse, squash, table tennis, badminton, golf, shooting
USE THING TO YEET STICK: archery
YEET STICK: javelin
STICK YEETS YOU: pole vault
Greetings from the unparalleled view of the last car of the Nordline
R2-D2 had the best quotes but it might be hard to communicate in the lab with them
Read the whole sign. It's worth it.