Rincewind / Twoflower?

Magnesium has worked for me, sometimes. Other than that, brute forcing my circadian rhythm by getting up at 5am for work has helped.

For those wondering what "Batman's Aff His Nut" sounds like in a proper Glaswegian accent, here's Robert Florence, who penned it, reciting it over a Batman teaser...

It's a neat description of the sort of game ending situation that avid players of Civilization (like Banks) are familiar with.

The first stage after diagnosis is always grief. Look after yourself

If you give a user a free text field and ask them to write "apple" in it, you will get 43 different spellings of "orange"

C. S. Lewis wrote his series and then decided to bookend it with Genesis and Revelation.

"...If a certain level of skill - of competence - translates into the gift of life or death it becomes malice when you don't bother to exercise that skill, because people are relying on you to do just that"

Ian Banks nailed it in Complicity

"We all have a moral responsibility, whether we like it or not, but people in power - in the military, in politics, in professions, whatever - have an imperative to care, or to at least to exhibit an officially acceptable analogue of care; duty, I suppose."

#Excel

It means 50% of your journey and 80% of the aggro is behind you