I found that the author glossed over a lot of stuff.

Pretty slick oil say.

It can’t be worse than tex!

I bet you’ve already read some Iain M Banks? If not, that’s an obvious choice.

I’m not sure if I read a lot of hard sci fi, but I’ve read some maybe semi-hard good stuff over the years.

Tried Gregg Bear’s Eon series?

Juice by Tim Winton was good.

I loved Gateway by Pohl, but don’t bother with the sequels.

Roadside Picnic by the Russian brothers? Super weird and intriguing.

J. G. Ballard? Alfred Bester? China Meiville?

This is all pretty mainstream stuff, I bet you’ve read it all.

About half way through Revelation Space by Reynolds.

Enjoying it so far.

Fantastic. Sounds good!

And thanks whoever randomly downvoted, lol.

Does it handle outline cover art (e.g. cover.jpg) correctly?

Beets didn’t, which is why I’m still manually filing my music.

This ^

If we want to be pedantic, the setup would have ended with “… hoping to win”

Then we have “no pun in ten did [win]”.

But really, it’s fine. Bravo.

apple-ing pun

And it has a poop hatch too!

I can make much better coffee at home, and I can take one with me to work in a flask.

But lots of people don’t want to, dont have time to, or can’t make fresh coffee at home and therefore buy it out.

But even if i make it at home, if I want a second coffee during the work day, I’d have to either have instant coffee from work or buy one.

FWIW: My take on Starbucks is that their coffee is a) usually quite average at best, b) variable quality depending upon where you buy it.

Where I live there are lots of alternatives which serve better coffee for about the same price, so I don’t really see any need to use Starbucks.

Last time I had a Starbucks was on a road trip at a motorway service station. It wasn’t very good coffee at all, and afterwards I resented having paid service station prices for a coffee I didn’t enjoy. But in that scenario they have a captive audience.

Yes, but there is a line at which point the art can no longer be seen.

For example, I can’t listen to the lost prophets any more.

Idiocracy.

Loved the idea. Film itself… meh

Does picoreplayer work OK on the first gen boards?

Stop+a crew.

Sun keyboards had dedicated copy and paste keys.

Also the illusive “Stop” key that you needed to break into the boot rom.

It’s not so 0xBAD

Ah, an 0xF00D joke.

Ha. Haaaaaaa. Noses of dowels!