Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

...as it appears they can sneak aboard trains, and steal the driver's lunch. Is this the rehersal for a new train robbery...

A company spokesman said the ferret ate the driver's cheese sandwiches and biscuits before he noticed the intruder.

(from news.bbc.co.uk)

Two starships, with raggle taggle crews, driven by market forces and implacable governments to the edges of civilised space. Two ships, with outdated technology and unpredictable stardrives. Two ships, caught up in capers, crimes and strange new situations...
( ...I give you.... )

Chris Baldwin's Bruno is one of the most open, heartfelt and downright wonderful pieces of sequential art on the net today.

Read it.

From the beginning...

The emergency safety pillow is now held up by the miraculous power that is staples. The Duck Tape was just not sticking on its own. I think the adhesive wasn't bonding well to the plywood.

So I stapled the tape to the wood.

Bingo.

The pillow is now in a cradle of tape, and the tape is securely held to the temporary ceiling. And we can still use the ladder to go in and out, when we need to talk to the Daves.

Staple guns. When you just need to make it stay up.