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Max:

In Clancy's novel Rainbow Six, he had a terrorist attack at Euro Disney, with plenty of shooting and hostage-taking. I don't know what arrangements (if any) he had with Disney, but shouldn't this set a precedent?

~Tom

Wonderful, JP!

Just goes to show what a little research will do. I wrote my poem about the very first thing that popped into my head.

~Tom

Mikira:

After reading the "Use in fiction" paragraph, I would agree with you. I'll leave the logo on the sketch and if we hear negatively from nynative1 I can scrub it off. I am sure that you mentioning that the shuttles were built by Volkswagen would be a fair use and, as you say, it gives them something to shoot for in the coming centuries.

~Tom

Thanks, Dirk.

I use Pale Moon, which is a derivative of Firefox, and the add-on called Tab Mix Plus. I've setup the tabs so that if I leave a page, it will log me out. When that happens, I have to log back in to TNBW. True, the review is still there, but it is still a pain and can be avoided.

~Tom

I have a service-related hearing loss in both ears (Morse code and static crashes for 20 years will do that). So, when I get ready to do some serious writing, I take my hearing aids out and go for it! Music, at that point, does not compute. Sometimes, to put me into the mood, I listen to classical or very old rock (circa 1950's) records on my turntable. Ear buds cannot compete with suitcase-sized speaker enclosures and a recliner between them.

~Tom

Strange as it may seem, I'd like to meet someone who was on 'the other side' of my struggle against the Soviet Union while I was in the navy. Someone who was in the trenches, running the same kind of gear against me and my country. Someone of equal rank with whom I could hold a frank discussion of just how effective we really were - or thought we were. It may seem rather pedestrian, but I'd really like to know that my 20 years was worth it.

~Tom

Would getting a small bonus of points for reviewing a non-connection work? Or reviewing a new writer if s/he is within, say, two months of joining?

~Tom

I also prefer to have Connections at the top. Those are the ones I'm most interested in. New entries (not of my connections) could be next.

~Tom

Boy, do I identify with that! I'm the same way. I do know what "looks good" and "sounds good" to me, and that's what gets put down. My own personal albatross is writing passively and not actively. I struggle, but I sometimes fail.

~Tom

Funny, Dagnee. I hereby find myself guilty of at least three infractions. I won't say which ones, however.

~Tom

Everyone in my family says I'm a little unbalanced anyway, so why not live the role? I spend a lot of my days sitting here on my computers writing, editing, programming, or working on a web site. Mikira is right. If a person is in balance, that person is a pretty dull person. It's the imbalances that spice up anyone's day. Some things that will tilt you off-center are strange, some a great, most of them you can deal with right away, but some take a while. Go with the flow.

~Tom

Hey, Dirk! Why not have the operator push a button and turn the aircar into a briefcase? This worked for George Jetson.

~Tom