The original opening sequence had Gordon completing several hundred grant applications, but it didn't playtest well.

Rule 34 in particular is an excellent read, and expands on some of the concepts in the post.

I can has Chesebro?

Fun fact: in the entire run of Pinky and The Brain, there were only two occasions where they were pondering the same thing: once when Pinky had been made temporarily super-intelligent, and once when they were both pondering how unlikely it was that they were both pondering the same thing.

Cosmetics, apparently: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2015/04/14/baby-foreskin-facial-boston-hydrafacial/

I've lived in a house with these windows for the last 15 years, and didn't know this.

Did he also eat his meat raw and sleep in trees?

I'm not sure this will work out...

I think that counts as "cruel and unusual".

Scholar of the SECOND Sin.

I remember the first time that I read this, before I'd read any of Weir's more popular things. I was on a crowded bus at the time; after I'd finished the sorry, I looked around and had a bit of an Existential Moment.

Just after Salmon(d). Presumably, the next one will be the well-known Scottish politician Davey Coelacanth.

He somehow manages to simultaneously look like both Beavis and Butthead.

"again"

I'VE GIVEN THEE COURTESY ENOUGH

Same; I'm Scottish, so anything over about 35C will literally kill me. A week's diving in Malta during October, though? Lovely!

This guy is plainly off to hunt some trolls.

Thanks! Since getting the Tele, I've got most of the bases covered now: N2 for Floyd Rose-y stuff, Jackson for alternate tunings (it spends 90% of its time in drop D), Telecaster for clean tones and twang, and the PRS for everything else.

It's an N2. And yes, they're really nice guitars.

Mine too! Between that, The Martian and Artemis, I'm pretty much guaranteed to buy anything else that Andy Weir publishes.