What gets me about the Mad Max franchise is that every vehicle has brand-new knobby tires. I get that the reason for this is that they use practical effects and they can't have stunt drivers swerving around on bald-ass shit, but it's jarringly out of place. Having refineries in a post-apocalyptic world is unlikely enough, but no fucking way they'd be able to make new tires.
I laminated mine years ago and still used it to get my Real ID. The dude looking it over said "that's fine" and waved me in. I had signed it when I was like 10 or something and the signature was absolutely nothing like what it is today. They were fine with that, too. Being white probably helped a lot.
weird American birth certificate
My mother was born and given up for adoption in a state that seals adoption records for 80 years. We found her birth family because her birth certificate had her birth name crossed out with a single pen line and her adopted name written in above it. We surmised that her birth middle and last names were actually her birth mother's full name and since it was a rare last name we were easily able to find her in the 1930 census. This allowed us to locate her birth mother's still-living sister. All went well, but this was certainly an egregious violation of the state's adoption laws.
Take the bird's eye view.
It's also shit because you can LOOK AT YOUR FUCKING SPEEDOMETER even if you can't feel the difference in speed.
I had this idea for a sci-fi short story that involved a long-lived alien that has been watching the earth since the solar system formed. It finally decides to speak to humanity and starts telling the story about how the earth formed from the collision of two bodies, and the humans are all "yeah yeah we know. Here's a movie we made of it" and the alien is all "WTF? How do they know that?"
Mozart also invented a system that used dice to randomly generate music. My unverifiable theory is that he continued refining the system and it got so good that he used it to compose all his greatest hits and stopped telling anybody about his random music generator.
Jeopardy just depresses me now. I used to think I could have at least competed on the show, but for the last 20 years or so I've been completely disconnected from pop culture and I could never hope to answer that type of question. I also miss Trebek, god damn it. Ken Jennings is alright but it's not just the same.
The "traditional values" of heavy drinking and autocracy?
The evil truth of sourdough is that it takes about the same amount of time and effort to make four loaves as it does to make one.
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