#because nerds

[deweydecimalchickens]

Terry Pratchett references I have got thanks to Well There's Your Problem podcast (about engineering disasters, with slides):

The Breccia pork futures warehouse in Men at Arms /Thud! probably refers to bonded warehouses and using warehouse receipts for nonexistent stock as currency, most specifically the Tino de Angelis salad oil fraud

Vetinari disguising himself as an engine stoker in Raising Steam calls back to Lenin using the same method to escape from then re-infiltrate St Petersburg before kicking off the Bolshevik Revolution.

[vagrantblvrd]

A piece of Star War knowledge a friend told that I think about time to time is the dianoga (the alien in the trash compactor on Death Star) was named Omi and she was Force-senstive.

[awkwardbananapeel]

Boy and I are planning an apartment warming party next weekend that involves him bringing his Wii and us playing Mario. xD

[lets-go-bananas]

My students keep asking me what I got my man for Valentine’s Day and I have to watch their faces when I’m like, “A beer stein…with a Magic the Gathering logo on it………”

[ticktockkillthecroc-archive]

Going to a friend's. Might be on mobile.