Apart from the jetlag it's not too bad, actually. I've had worse jobs that didn't take me to the far corners of the world.

For those who didn't know: This is Robert Plant, the vocalist of Led Zeppelin. A dove spontaneously landed on his hand during a concert. They were released from cages at the end if Stairway to Heaven, and one of them decided to land instead of flying off.

Now we'll see if the following period of stupid headlines about stupid people doing stuff in support of their stupid candidate will be 2 months or 4 years.

In 2009 there were like three people in line in front of me. Must've taken at least 30 seconds before an available election official could check my ID. It was extremely early in the early voting period, and there was only one place open that early. I was going to be abroad for the next month, so I had to vote that day.

When not voting early, I can't recall there ever being a line.

"2009 election, you say??"

Norway.

Ironically, I did this today when editing /etc/sudoers

I played a lot of D&D back in the day, and while I'm normally not a superstitious person, we did have a dice jail for poorly performing dice. That light blue d20 was a repeat offender.

Yes; pollsters and advertising platforms. They've got to be raking it in these days.

Never played the futuristic ones. What appealed to me with the anno games was the atmosphere of sails and settlers.

BuT tHeY wErE WrOnG iN 2016!1

Yes, and no. They estimated a slightly higher chance for a Hillary win over a Donald win, but they were well within the margin of polling error, and they have been for every election. Plus people have a tendency of over-valuing a "51% chance to win".

While this is good news, it could mean nothing.

EDIT: 538 explained it better than I ever could:
"Statistically, too, there is no meaningful difference between a 50-in-100 chance and a 49-in-100 chance. Small changes in the available polling data or settings of our model could easily change a 50-in-100 edge to 51-in-100 or 49-in-100. That’s all to say that our overall characterization of the race is more important than the precise probability — or which candidate is technically ahead.”

2k@120

I'm not that picky in terms of resolution, but I am when it comes to FPS.

But in all honesty, 2k@60 would be fine too.

"IT Support".
Shore support specialist for this production system (server cluster) used offshore. I spend most of my time "available, on standby".

They see me postin'
They hatin'
Patrolling and trying to catch me postin dirty

1602 was the best Anno. Fight me.

Parents know which sound to attach to this picture: Blunt force impacting something moist and soft - the sound of a soggy rolled up diaper falling to the floor.

I'm WFH with a pretty chill work day except I'm on standby 24/7 in case of something stupid happens at work. So not much would change for me, honestly.

I learned a while back that his distinctive voice is not actually his voice. It's one he puts on as it works well for the characters he tends to play.

I was actually pretty late in watching Star Trek (but once I did, I fully committed. Started with the original series, then watched all episodes of every series), so I first noticed him in The 4400s. Seeing him in Star Trek again was so much fun.

I used to around 20 years ago. Some, anyway.

But I was always picky about the ones I watched. I had a few friends who liked Naruto and other types I didn't like. I always found that these two types basically boil down to either:

• Combat centric plot, where each episode revolves around some new antagonist that luckily can be defeated by this new trick the protagonist learned earlier in the episode. Example: Naruto, DBZ.

• Awkward guy spends time with attractive girls. Example: Ichigo 100%, Love Hina.

I really liked Monster, GTO, Elfen Lied, and Chobits. And there was this one drama whose name I cannot remember. I kind of lost interest after having seen those, because it felt like there were too much low quality anime compared to the ones that actually were worthwhile.

EDIT: I remember the other one, Kimi Ga Nozomi Eien. Also, honorable mention: Nana. Great soundtrack by Olivia Lufkin and Anna Tsuchiya

Dream Theater - Meteopolis pt 2: Scenes from a Memory

Related Kerbal Space Program trivia: The kerbals were originally supposed to be genderless, but the design ended up looking male anyway, so the first three kerbals ended up being named Jebediah, Bill and Bob. Then when the game reached version 1.0, the devs decided they might as well add female kerbals, so they added one to the veteran-crew: Valentina