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And we have a release date for Peace Talks - 14 July 2020... https://www.tor.com/2019/12/16/jim-butchers-new-novel-peace-talks-will-publish-in-2020-for-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-dresden-files/

I turned them off b/c they're too 'tall' in most cases. If there are a number of single-line posts that all have 150px high signatures - the sig is taller than the content. Which makes the content piece harder to see. If we can add a few 'return' lines of padding before the sig block, that...

Storage more than back-up. And space is a factor, so portability/small-ness is preferred.

The last movie I watched? no idea. Last movie I watched in the theatre? Jurassic World 2 - it was kind of underwhelming, actually.

This is pretty common in retail shipping. All of the 'express delivery' packages go out first, then the rest. And a lot of the non-express packages can get pushed to the tail-end of the delivery window. Amazon is a huge shipper, so they've probably negotiated a rockin' deal with UPS that keeps...

This is possibly related to Amazon having multiple warehouses/shipping locations.

This is great - but I'm looking for an external HDD. I dunno that I can upgrade my laptop. It's about 4 yrs old and next stop in that direction is a new laptop. I need an external storage device. I've had both old skool and ssd (current one is ssd, but I'm afraid it's corrupted-ish).

I did the same thing. Watched the first time, then watched again after 'knowing' all the things - and several times found myself all 'Oh Lorca, you sneaky little so-and-so!'

So, I'm looking into getting a new xHDD. I'm primarily looking at SSD, decent storage capability and wanting a not exorbitant price. I have a Buffalo now and it's fine, except that I think it got a little beat-up when it was hooked up to my desktop PC (it would regularly 'disappear' or not...

There's been a bit of a change-up behind the scenes too: 'Star Trek: Discovery' Showrunners Out; Alex Kurtzman to Take Over (Exclusive)

From a recent signing event, he now has a place to work on this and now that "Brief Cases" is out and his promotion for that is done (or mostly done), "Peace Talks" is on the way. I believe he said to release late fall. So, comparatively - soooooooooooooooooooooooooon.

The pilots for most of Trek are just - not impressive. (No idea why.) Discovery's is probably the easiest to watch of them all. VOY's is so bad, when I went back to try to watch the show, I actually skipped it b/c I hated it so much the first time. (I still haven't made it through all of VOY...

Detmer was wounded at the Battle of the Binary Stars - she was on the Shenzhou. (I answered this in another thread too.)

Specifically about Detmer's face implant - she was on the Shenzhou at the Battle of the Binary Stars and was injured there. She's in the pilot and, iirc, gives Michael the side-eye when she first shows up on Discovery.

Agreed. I tested a bunch of different phones when I upgraded from my 'dumb' phone to my 'smart' phone and I liked the functionality of the iPhone over the others. And I now have an Android tablet that I hate (plus a Kindle Fire that's also less than fabulous). But, yes, Apple needs to support...

This is a common bit of commentary on the film. And I think I read somewhere that JJ Abrams even said he should've taken it out b/c it didn't serve any narrative purpose. (Which it didn't.) The scene would've worked just fine w/o actively showing us Marcus' underwear.

The White Council of Wizards is made up of those who are 'full' wizards - the strong practitioners. They're kind of secretive - they don't really like/want the general populace knowing about them. That's part of why they don't like Harry - he's an openly practicing wizard. That bugs them...

The White Council are not known for 'coming to the rescue'. And, they don't really get along w/ Harry very well, so they tend not to come to his aid. But we do meet several of them later in the series. "Grave Peril" is one of my faves. If I rank them, I think I put GP 2nd. "Death Masks" is...

Terry Nation only did production for some of the opening gambits. He wasn't a full producer for the show as a whole. The production company for MacGyver was Winkler/Rich - Henry Winkler and John Rich. (Yes, *that* Henry Winkler.)

'Real world magick'? Do you know something we don't? Rabbits from hats and the like is the only 'real world' magick I'm aware of. XD