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1. 1 day ago on Endtown

   Stand by to repel boarders.

2. 2 days ago on Working Daze

   Hackenschmidt held up a Timex watch that had taken a licking, but had stopped ticking. “This, too, is consistent.”

3. 3 days ago on Working Daze

   Yakomoto grinned nastily. “You know, in the old days, they made cue balls out of a type of celluloid that could, if hit just right, explode. One COULD do the same with pickleballs. Ask any Accountant of Fortune™.”

4. 5 days ago on Working Daze

   Yakamoto scratched his head. “Would this make Rita an Amazon Prime?”

5. 5 days ago on Working Daze

   (I have a bunch of different K&E slide rules, as well as some of the detailed books explaining how to use them. Very high quality. One quirky variant, made by another firm, was used from the 1940s to the 1970s to calculate how to load certain types of bombers for the USAAF and USAF, depending on fuel, crew, bomb load, &c. K&E overall had some lovely products.)

6. 5 days ago on Working Daze

   Hackenschmidt hefted his trusty Keuffel & Esser slide rule, in order to make calculations. “How much will Ed One be paid?”

7. 9 days ago on Working Daze

   Yakamoto chuckled in a sinister fashion. “A 5% raise on a very tiny base…”

8. 10 days ago on Working Daze

   Hackenschmidt raised an eyebrow. “Surely, our good NCO would be hostile to a chap who spends a good portion of his existence skiving and sleeping.”

9. 11 days ago on Working Daze

   Very good Borgman pastiche.

10. 14 days ago on Working Daze

    Hackenschmidt waxed nostalgic. “I remember that era well, when a lot of those firms spent enormous sums on assorted tchotchkes. High quality, too; some have outlasted their sponsoring firms by 25 years.”