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For those who don't want to read the assorted books for the new canon.,.. The collected "history" so far of what is known about what's happened in the Star Wars universe between RotJ and the new film... io9 - Everything We Know About Star Wars Post Return Of The Jedi Future

Remember, it's all about hanging out like a Wookie...

I just find it hard to take most nutrition advice. Every 5-10 years, it changes. Oh, too much salt is bad for you. Wait 10 years and they'll turn around and admit they got it wrong and its okay. Specific ingredients, specific types of food, specific types of fat.... One decade all the food nutrition experts have identified it as awful and life threatening and the cause of all these illnesses.. and the next decade its "well, it's not as serious as we thought" "Actually it was something else..". It comes down to eating everything in moderation and having some form of exercise in your life. Beyond that, the science seems to make it a crapshoot because it's ever changing.

It seems to be working. There's just that slightly worrying smell that could either be extremely burnt croissant.. or burnt wiring. I can't quite figure which...

I agreed to dog sit for my sister. What I ended up with was an overlarge, rambunctious german shepard that decided to whine, paw me, and do the jiggy-jiggy dance to go out in the garden roughly every 30-40 minutes through the night. And of course he actually needed to pee every time, so it's not like I could easily ignore him from then on. Of course, that had me somewhat stumble-minded in the morning, so I put the kettle on for a cup of tea, decided to nuke a croissant, went to the toilet..and came back to find I'd put the croissant in for 2 minutes instead of 20 seconds..and I'd grabbed one of the plates with the metal rim to put it on.....

For that slight look back... GamesRadar - Hitman's Most Memorable Mission

And for the not so serious... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajyNRnyPMs

Okay then... North Carolina High School Quaterback and Girlfriend charged as Adults for exchanging nude photos

Well, frankly the whole thing is set up by several variant cultures from quite different backgrounds that have a few hundred years of history driving the various elements. Okay, to be fair, it's more like a millennia and some loose change of history driving it all. Sure, the last 20 years of global politics are much more distinct in shaping it, but a lot of the slow, grinding, driving forces have been laid down for a whole heap of time.

Hitman Agent 47 It was surprisingly good for a game-to-movie adaption. As a stand alone action flick I'd rate it. It has some fairly well done characters, a bit of tension, and some nicely choreographed action sequences, plus a couple of small twists just to add to it.

I once read a Star Wars novel set after the original trilogy. They killed Chewbacca, and I threw it in the trash after that. Yes, the whole.. New Order setting and the Yuuzhan Vong was very.. offputting. They had some interesting ideas, but as a whole that part of the EU got very warped and messy. Frankly, the Thrawn Trilogy, some of the Jedi Academy related series, and a few others were pretty damn good. Just there were a lot more flawed than polished gems that did turn up.

<whistles innocently>

The Books We Call Baen

And for the other dissonance.. the Westboro Baptist Church are also joining in on the hate of said clerk.. They're hammering her for not having repented adultery and that she should get back to her first husband because if she was a good and devout Christian she wouldn't be living in sin with another man..since a true Christian wouldn't recognise divorce or remarriage while the first husband is alive.

And as we take that turn in our amusement...

Mancy means divination by means of something. So, can you tell the future from corpses? If I recall well enough, it was originally nigromancy, and was more on the art of communication and divination using the deceased. The zombies and animating the dead came later...

For the fun ending to my weekend, I went online to check my bank stuff and deal with monthly bills.. and found out that despite being repeatedly told that I would get 8 weeks of the Carers Allowance paid following the death of the person I cared for (thus giving me some time to reorganise my life) in fact they stopped paying it the moment I told them my mother had died. So I have three weeks of missing funds. So I'm foreseeing the joys of starting my week tomorrow with government bureaucracy and phone calls....

Drone flyby of the new Apple Campus 2 under construction... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqH02gN29o