(As folks are sure to recall, we've been doing this for more than 11 years, but a quick search of the forum shows I've only been using this thread title since 2008...)

We are starting our annual week at the beach on Long Beach Island on Saturday.  As has been usual the last few years, we have more than enough consumer electronics handy that I will not disappear from the boards as I used to in the early 2000s.

The place we've stayed at the last couple years turned out to be way too small if everyone wanted to be in it at once, so in January Peg and I did some legwork down in LBI and found a much larger place for about the same rent, just fifty feet from the beach and just two blocks away from one of the family's favorite restaurants on the island.  Everyone's looking forward to it.

I'm not sure what Bob's policy on linking to them is (or for that matter exactly where to talk about them, since they're not fanfiction...) but having chanced across an aggregator site for them while browsing, I became curious about the title of one of the "just in" new ones - "Her Appetite's Too Big for Me Alone." No, it's not lewd, despite what one might think, it's referring to literal hunger.

The first chapter is 50 pages and just hit the internet, but searching for the title will easily find it for you. I don't want to spoil the twist on what is at first glance a very typical "high school boy meets girl, they talk awkwardly, her stomach growls so he gives her the snack he'd packed" meet-cute, but it's an interesting one, at least for this first look. It's got some nice art in both the color and B&W pages, and while it's not advanced enough that I'd give it more than the most tentative of recommendations it at least doesn't raise any red flags.

OOC: Rob's sidestory #5, set after "Thermal, er, Culture Shock"
OOC: WARNING: This story has spoilers for the collaborative Halloween story that is still being written... although anyone who's been reading the OOC threads already knows them.

Okay, so I've been hearing all kinds of things about how the American West Coast was utterly devastated by a super tsunami that swept out from where the SDF-1 Macross space folded out along with South Ataria Island and a decent chunk of the Pacific Ocean.

And yet, later on, we see that Minmei's home town of Yokohama is just fine.

Wut.

No really, what the hell?

Because here, this map shows where South Ataria Island (actually South Iwo Jima in real life) is actually located.

   

So, how the hell is the West Cost screwed over six ways to Sunday, but Yokohama is just fine?  Was this yet another one of Harmony Gold's bending of the facts or did someone legit not do their homework?

Or, more importantly, can such an event even spawn such a huge tsunami?  Because, IIRC, tsunamis are caused by shifts in the tectonic plates that adjust the relative depths of the sea floor on either side of the faultline.  And I would think that would be shifting a helluva lot more volume of sea water than what got taken with the SDF-1.

So.... help?

Anyone else been getting this recently? I just get an "Insecure Connection" block page when I try to go to SpaceBattles in the past few hours.

The Straight Dope has published its final column.

(I was going to mention this on the site's All The Tropes page, but it doesn't have an ATT page...)

English is my second language (spanish is my primary), and I feel that I could do a better job at communicating and building arguments in general than what I have been doing (which is building it in spanish on Notepad, then translating). Are there any books out there you could recommend to me to work on this?

Just noticed the notice. Many Happy Returns!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/...index.html

Kennedy, whom you may remember from previous hits such as:

Citizens United Wrote:"…independent expenditures do not lead to, or create the appearance of, quid pro quo corruption."

The Register: In huge privacy win, US Supreme Court rules warrant needed to slurp folks' location data

Quote:In a decision that will define privacy in the digital age, the US Supreme Court decided 5-4 on Friday that the government needs a warrant to access its citizens' mobile phone location data.