1983 worldcon in Baltimore he was giving out autographs but only if he could write on women's bodies. He wasn't unusual for famous SF authors of the time.

Anyone who has a Klingon cosplay has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

I've never been there, I will have to try it out

I'm still betting on malicious overcompliance

Maxfield Parrish is my guilty pleasure artist. Sure, it's pastel and pretty. If I'm feeling bad about something I can just fall into one of his paintings and pretend I live there.

This sort of thing has happened before from time to time - someone is erroneously reported dead or they have the same name as a dead person. SSA's DEADA system collects the state systems' death reports. It's a decades old system, but the devs are sharp and.. oh wait.. did they retire unexpectedly?

Jimmy Bond from the first Casino Royale

Tough to read something about being anonymous when it first wants my email

I have a friend who's in that chorus, they're very disappointed

Missing the obvious difference between "enrollees" and "beneficiaries"

Script kiddies can't tell the difference between false and unknown

And the rest of the story

Some of the story

I may or may not know of an assembler language program still in use I cannot confirm or deny that I worked on it

Anecdata one team member was going to retire in May but is taking the "buyout" retirement so he has a few more months of service credit

Do you follow AOC here? She's been kicking