What?
I have a copy!
The novelisation also has all the Biggs scenes and tells us Luke had a puppy as a child.
It also implies that the moisture farmers didn’t just harvest water, they actually used that water for farming crops (was it hydroponics? It’s been a while since I read it).
Mucked up a whole magazine I was making. Even though I fixed it on my netbook, when I transferred it to my PC, the layout became a garbled mess. Next time, I’m gonna used Scribus, even if you have to select a different font just to make text bold.
X-creting
You think that’s trauma? Make her watch the entire holiday special, she’ll be scarred for life.
Slightly tangential, but this is the version I’d have loved.
Also there are enough tell tale signs in the original Star Wars (ie IV) that Vader wasn’t originally Anakin (4k77 even shows him as Lord Darth Vader in the credits, and Obi Wan calls him Darth). Lucas likes to make things up as he goes along :)
4e is pants! AD&D2E ftw!
This is why I don’t have a wife.
I’m still getting flashbacks. My reaction after watching it was so bad that when my niece saw me (she was 4) and I’d told her what I’d just watched, she feared the words “holiday special” for ever afterwards.
Marcus Chown’s book is a good primer on quantum theory, but it will make your head spin.
(you’ll understand the dad joke after you’ve read the book)
Some links
Flow describes an intense and focused concentration on what one is doing in the present moment, a merger of action and awareness, a loss of reflective self-consciousness. In a sense, when someone is in a state of flow, the mind enters a meditative autonomous trance, which can distort their perception of time, as they become solely absorbed in their present action.
Most of us have experienced flow at some point when we have been so absorbed in a physical or creative activity that all our sensations and thoughts have felt reduced to a compressed euphoric singularity, and our actions have felt dissociated and involuntary.
Professor Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the psychologist who named the concept, said in a 2004 TED Talk that: “When you are really involved in this completely engaging process… [you don’t] have enough attention left over to monitor how [your] body feels, or [your] problems at home… [Your] body disappears – [your] identity disappears from [your] consciousness.”
Yeah. I tried the vegan cheeses because you have to have cheese on pizza right? (Violife is the only decent tasting one I’ve found here that doesn’t contain carageenan). Then I tried making pizza without cheese and it’s just as good. So now I have cheeseless pizza. The flavour comes from the veg.
Anything creative, as a lot of people have suggested. It’s highly satisfying to see a finished product you crafted yourself. And they really make you get in the zone and hyperfocus.
Scrapbooking is a good one. Sift through your photos, find some that bring back good memories and get them printed. Invest in a small spiral bound scrapbook, some acid-free coloured paper and decorations (you can get these from poundshops/dollar stores). Look at other people’s scrapbooks online and shamelessly copy their designs until you can come up with your own.
Maybe you could even make some for the people you care about. Added bonus of being able to go over good memories with them. Maybe you can bring a smile to both of your faces.
Another cute one is making models out of greyboard (the grey cardboard on the back of refill pads).
Best of luck, I hope you feel better soon!
I use my trusty Paint Shop Pro 7 and Paint Tool SAI, neither of which support it.
My niece was 4 when I first watched the Holiday Special and my reaction was such that she would get scared at the mere mention of the words “holiday special”. It was a great way to get her to behave. “Tidy up your toys now or I’ll make you watch the holiday special.”
(also: “brush your teeth, or you’ll get palpateeth”)
I installed signal a few weeks ago just to see if it was any good and it does also take your contacts’ details (I got the popup asking for access).
Yes, whatsapp has my real name and phone number on their servers without my consent because several people I know have my details saved in their phone contacts, and when someone signs up to WhatsApp, they give my personal contact information to WhatsApp because the person signing up to WhatsApp consented to give it, not me. Tbf it’s the same for all messenger apps these days. I miss MSN Messenger.
You are a bold one!
(Roger, Roger)
I’m still waiting for Steev Palpatine.