I wasn't sure at first how to go about annotating Weapon of Choice, since unlike our usual plain-text format, it hasn't got line numbers to work with. I experimented with a couple of different ways of doing it, and ultimately came up with this:

The Annotated Weapon of Choice

The trick was finding a way of making the tooltips that didn't require server plugins, since I don't have system admin privileges on the server where EPU is hosted nowadays, and I didn't feel like badgering Dave about it. After a bit of snouting around on the Web, I eventually came across Easy CSS Tooltip, which has to live up to its name if I'm able to make it work. :) (cf. the discussion of other CSS matters over in Featured Docs the other day.)

The tips do have an irritating habit of scrolling off the right side if they're anchored to a word that happens to be over there anyway, but as Phil said during testing, that's why we have scrollbars. :)

--G.
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The tooltips also have an annoying tendency to be obscured by other things if they're off to the right.

In more important considerations, does Logan just buy the better beer, or does he actually drink it as well?

Peter Eng
--
"You're still buying this crap?"
"Kirin Ichiban and Guinness're behind it. So stop buggin' me about it, okay? I'm buyin' pricey beer, doesn't flamin' mean I hafta drink it."

>In more important considerations, does Logan just buy the better beer,
>or does he actually drink it as well?

He'll probably drink Kirin, Japanophile that he is. Besides, since the Earth Alliance crackdown, it's been mighty difficult to source Molson Canadian offworld. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

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Knowing Logan, he probably shows up at the brewery on Earth out of the blue, buys as much as he can carry, then disappears again, without anyone being able to figure out how he managed to get there or back to New Avalon.

So... not Asahi or Hitachino then? Asahi's a cheap-ass Japanese lager, Hitachino XH is matured in old sake casks except for the last three months. Then it's matured in old shochu casks. Because... well, because people have a thing for barrel-ageing these days, and probably will do in the future as well.

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

>So... not Asahi or Hitachino then?

Have to take your word. My interest in these matters extends only so far.

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Ah. Sorry, I keep forgetting there are members of society who aren't rampaging alcoholics.

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

There's also the distinct possibility your man Logan'd like Norwegian sake. I am not making that up. Mob of screaming-mad modern Vikings trading under Nogne O from the quite wonderfully named town of Grimstad make it.

It is often the young, who have just recently discovered such pleasures, who are most likely to frequently partake of them and to announce this to anyone in the vicinity.

As one grows older, the consequences of indulgence mount, and temperance often becomes a necessity rather than a choice.

Commercial microbrewing also happens to be both my passion and, if all goes well, my career plan, so, y'know, there's... that.

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

>Commercial microbrewing also happens to be both my passion and, if all
>goes well, my career plan, so, y'know, there's... that.

Then excellent for you and do well!

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

>It is often the young, who have just recently discovered such
>pleasures, who are most likely to frequently partake of them and to
>announce this to anyone in the vicinity.
>
>As one grows older, the consequences of indulgence mount, and
>temperance often becomes a necessity rather than a choice.

Another thing many of us discover with age is a talent for, and indeed a capacity for positive delight in, buzzkillery. As we arrive in middle age, we cannot wait to tell the young how disappointing the world they've not yet grown into is going to be when they get here; how their peers, their leaders, and especially their bodies are inevitably going to let them down; how they, too, will one day be doomed to wear eternally the chains they forged in life; etc. Some of us ultimately adopt wiping the smug smiles off their fresh little faces as our chief, in some cases sole, recreation.

You're welcome, kids! One day you'll do the same to the irritatingly brash and cheerful little punks who are being born around now, and we'll watch you do it from the porch and nod sagely, reserving to ourselves the even more satisfying knowledge that it gets far, far worse than even the middle-aged you knows. :)

--G.
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Oh good I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who gets a kick out of doing this.

I used to purposefully stand next to the newest freshest faced kid during the onload of ship's stores when I was attached to a cutter. Then I would purposfully show them the "Not fit for human consumption unless in military" written in fine print on the boxes of meat. It was a nice way to give them 'the future isn't going to be that bright kiddo' reality check. Of course after a bit they changed it to simply "For insitutional use only" So half the fun is gone.

"For institutional use only" - This means its good enough for crazy people, prisoners, and you... doesn't that make you feel special?

>"For institutional use only" - This means its good enough for crazy
>people, prisoners, and you... doesn't that make you feel special?

No, it reminds me that college could have been worse.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

>>"For institutional use only" - This means its good enough for crazy
>>people, prisoners, and you... doesn't that make you feel special?
>
>No, it reminds me that college could have been worse.

Snopes, I am told, will try to tell you that the institutional hot dogs labeled "Grade D But Edible" are a myth. Snopes apparently did not live adjacent to the stairwell that came out by the Morgan Hall Dining Commons loading dock at WPI in 1991-92.

At the time, according to the chart on the wall of the Dining Services manager's office, WPI was actually receiving a lower level of DĀKA services than prisons customarily sprang for. We were getting DĀKA "C", while their standard institutional offering was DĀKA "B".

--G.
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blegh I don't even wanna know what that level of food tastes like.

It could be worse: Back in the '90s, an Ontario university was caught reusing food.

They weren't simply putting out stuff that hadn't been taken by the students the day before, they were taking leftovers from returned trays and serving it.

Needless to say, the health inspector had a field day with that one.

>>>"For institutional use only" - This means its good enough for crazy
>>>people, prisoners, and you... doesn't that make you feel special?
>>
>>No, it reminds me that college could have been worse.
>
>Snopes, I am told, will try to tell you that the institutional hot
>dogs labeled "Grade D But Edible" are a myth. Snopes apparently did
>not live adjacent to the stairwell that came out by the Morgan Hall
>Dining Commons loading dock at WPI in 1991-92.
>
>At the time, according to the chart on the wall of the Dining Services
>manager's office, WPI was actually receiving a lower level of
>DĀKA services than prisons customarily sprang for. We were getting
>DĀKA "C", while their standard institutional offering was DĀKA "B".
>
>--G.
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>Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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>Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Maybe because they knew Prisoners would riot, and Students would just demostrate...

Craig

>Maybe because they knew Prisoners would riot, and Students would just
>demostrate...

The thing that really amazed me about that chart was that there was such a thing as DĀKA "A", which was allegedly served at a number of high-class resorts, hotels, and what have you. Posh DĀKA - the mind still rather boggles at the thought.

--G.
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My country's national sport is misery, so when I get to the Peugeot stage of life (i.e. the part of my existence where important bits stop working for no readily apparent reason) I'll be nice to them and take a genuine interest in what they do, make, listen to, play &c. There is no surer way than this to piss young people off.

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

"It's about damn time" is right. Not one, but two competing franchises beat him to screen time. :)

Michael C. Fortner
"Rule 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

The Fifth organization capable of the procedure might have been the Salusian STG.

The Omega pizza delivery line reminds me of this Dominos commercial http://youtu.be/7iT-bWpi9do

"If people bring so much courage into this world, the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them." I don't think I have ever heard this particular quote before, but it brought to mind another one. When I did a quick search to find the author of the second quote, I was surprised to find that it was actually the second part of the first. "The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway
(off-sides, I used a website called thinkexist.com for the search, it's very useful for finding quotes)

>"If people bring so much courage into this world, the world has to
>kill them to break them, so of course it kills them." I don't think I
>have ever heard this particular quote before, but it brought to mind
>another one. When I did a quick search to find the author of the
>second quote, I was surprised to find that it was actually the second
>part of the first. "The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many
>are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway

I'm not fond of Hemingway in general, but the passage both those quotations come from has always been a favorite of mine. The second bit you quoted above ("The world breaks everyone...") is in Year's End Confrontation Blues - Wakaba and Kate reflect upon it while helping Utena deal with the bad memories her clash with Vigdis Brightblade stirred up.

A fuller form of the quotation appeared way back in Neon Exodus Evangelion 3:6. DJ quotes it when he's talking with Asuka about her mother's suicide:

	DJ took a deep breath, let it out slowly.  "Perhaps it wasn't
that she was a coward... perhaps it was that she was too brave."
	"What do you mean?"
	"'If people bring so much courage to this world the world has
to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them,'" DJ quoted.
"'The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the
broken places.  But those that will not break, it kills.  It kills the
very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.'"

--G.
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I would wager that pizza delivery guys on Omega are so hardcore because they use Malakites instead of Ofanites...

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.