Also there's the style of delivery - old acting used to be very exaggerated and hammy, then there's the kind of flawless but somewhat natural style that OP is talking about, through to today's more realistic "mumbling" style that everyone complains about.

Bad news on the backbone
I couldn't scan a single ASN

I'm trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author uses to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like "berckben"? Pronouncing ASN as "a-sone"?

In the other post, you claim you'd ordered them from Etsy. Is it your Etsy shop? I'm struggling to see how both can be true.

I had to laugh - that lot have absolutely no clue when it comes to security. Even in a VM I'm not sure I'd trust running Clawdbot (or whatever it's named this week).

On a Boeing, they're zip ties holding them together

It's a lot quicker than reading it! It's nearly half a million words, over if you include The Hobbit/Silmarillion.

Someone was claiming that the early chapters (I think it was the Old Forest stuff, after they left the Shire) were purposely written in a dense, slow style to make the reader really feel the weary progress. I don't think I believe that, but it's an interesting possibility.

I'd assume that most people are familiar with the term Trekkie, but would have to use context to figure out Trekker ("you like long walks?")

Whatever the intention, coining/identifying as a separate term suggests someone taking it quite seriously. I just consider them synonyms.

edit: FYI, this shop is OP's shop

Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn't name (or knew I'd got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn't Commodore 64).

These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?

It's power + volume down for me, but a good top, thanks. Looks like it works even when the phone is (biometric) locked.

I rewatched all of Babylon 5 recently, and I was surprised how good season 4 and 5 were - in my head, after they'd rushed the shadow war to an early end (when they thought they were cancelled) the rest was padding, but not so.

That's not to say there aren't some ridiculous stories and the

spoiler

telepath war

should have been better but it's definitely worth a watch.

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