Unfortunately they're not painted, because my shelf got put away and I haven't really established a good location for it in the new place.

Might I introduce you to Hexa Gear, from the same company that does Front Mission? Kotobukiya. They are piloted, and the pilots are roughly the size of a classic GI Joe.

It's a horrible trick, but it works. Although, we found that it wound up making us blind to comic sans, so I wound up the check ocr font instead. I forget if it was the check, or just a 16 segment LED thing.

one of my favorite UI mockup tools by default uses comic sans for everything for precisely this reason

An interesting design, the end of where real wood was actually superior to the synthetics that soon replaced it.

It hung on for a little bit in trim, but vinyl and leather just outcompeted it on the wheel itself.

Talking bout my g-g-generation?

Kildeer, that's good water.

I might could should talk about Buffalos now.

Spelljammer babies!

Our fence construction, sort of mirrors the arms race with the mailbox.

Been there. A few times. The fun one was, because of night shadows, part of the yard looks like a driveway. We used to get pizza deliveries to other houses in our backyard. Some of them got a 100 ft in before bogging down.

Also: if you know the days of the week in a Romance language, you’ve got the list of ‘known planets’ from antiquity (I know it in French): Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi, Dimanche, ie Moon day, Mars day, Mercury day, Jupiter day, Venus day, Saturn day, Sun day.

There should have been a wooden post stopping cars from coming onto it, but that tended to vanish every so often.

To not leave the story half told, I don't know how I got my front wheel up that high, but yeah, I did some serious damage to it, and then went over the side of the hill. By the time I climbed back up he was gone. Except for the fiberglass.

I once met a Corvette coming the opposite way, on a bike path that was not only protected, but a hundred feet from any road. My best guess is that they confused the entrance for an on-ramp. And were probably drunk.
Thank God it was a Corvette, because I got on the hood and windshield. Ruined a wheel

The good news is, it looks like the next police commissioner, is the existing one, who already has some sort of grip on the department.

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The end result of that, is the person behind the riot, was voted in for the next mayor. His recent career, was not a change from his previous work.

They started a riot to prevent reforms.