One of my cats periodically likes to stick his head through the window blinds at 2 in the morning to look outside. When he does that he makes these terrible choking noises, which causes me, if I’m awake to hear it, to run out and check on him. At that point, he’ll pull his head out and look at me like I’m the idiot for being worried about him…

Oh, it’s a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.

This reminds me of the book Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. In it, a company uses a mulcher to grind down all the books and shelves in a library, then uses scans of the scraps to reassemble the books in digital form for an AR version of the library.

Current hourly forecast says we’re gonna get thunderstorms around 5 here, but the rain will start at 3.

I thought trains were the most efficient way to ship goods, though I’ll concede that trains are notoriously bad at crossing oceans.

I’m similar, but it’s internal drives are planets, while external drives are moons.

I don’t name my machines anything special, but I’ve started naming my internal hard drives/samba shares after planets, and external drives after moons.