(1) EXACTLY.
https://twitter.com/pnh/status/678309964369235968
(2) NO SERVICE. Geek Bar Chicago has posted an announcement that anyone discussing Star Wars spoilers before Christmas will be asked to leave.
The folks at Geek Bar have been extremely stoked about the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” even offering customers a discount if they show their ticket stubs. But that’s also forced the bar to instill a strict no-spoilers policy, so strict that they’ll boot fans out of the bar if they ruin the movie for other customers. They even posted a sign on the bar’s front door as a warning to guests who blab about important plot lines.
(3) TOLKIEN’S LANGUAGES. John Garth observed on Facebook:
Among this quarter’s crop of additions to the Oxford English Dictionary is “waybread” – a coinage by Tolkien, whose first civilian job was as an assistant lexicography at the Dictionary. Never mind inventing Elvish languages: he’s still helping to invent the English one.
Around 500 new words, phrases, and senses have entered the Oxford English Dictionary this quarter, including phablet, waybread, and bank of mom and dad. You can read more about the new and revised words and meanings in this article by Jonathan Dent, Senior Assistant Editor of the OED
(4) FREEDOM. David Brin does threat analysis in “Who Controls the Internet” at Contrarian Brin.
The End of the Internet Dream? Ever since Congress passed Al Gore’s bill, around 1990, setting the Internet free to pervade the world and empower billions, repressive governments have complained, seeing their despotic methods undermined. And yes, democratic governments have often muttered: “Why’d we go and do that?” as their citizens became increasingly rambunctious, knowing and independent-minded!
As we’ll see below, the ruling classes in undemocratic lands have been striving to adapt, and showing real signs of success. So frets Jennifer Granick who was keynote speaker at Black Hat 2015 – a hacker’s conference. “In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that.”
(5) RECOMMENDATIONS. Rocket Stack Rank has published a consolidated list of short-fiction recommendations for the 2016 Hugo Awards.
These are divided by category (Novella, Novelette, and Short Story) and result from combining the recommendations of eight different reviewers.
In email, Gregory N. Hullender answered the obvious question head on:
So is it a slate? I don’t think so. The buckets are alphabetical by title, and none of the top few totals to exactly five. Also, we’ve gone out of our way to show people how to (legally) get copies of all these stories; no one can accuse us of urging anyone to vote without reading.
(6) AUTOMATED CODE WRITING. Platinum Rule, The Code of Conduct builder supplies appropriate language based on the user’s answers to basic questions.
However, I found it would quit working when I reached the question about sponsors, which means it’s more a curiosity than anything else.
(7) BEAR INTERVIEW. Suvudu interviews Elizabeth Bear, co-author of An Apprentice to Elves.
SUVUDU: Elizabeth, it’s a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk with you. You and Sarah Monette wrote one of my favorite short stories, “Boojum”, which I’ve raved about for years. Stumbling upon the Iskryne series was a real treat. How did the two of you meet, and what is it that first got you working together?
Elizabeth Bear: We were introduced by a mutual friend on livejournal because we were both interested in Elizabethan Theatre. I was working on the book that eventually came to be called Ink and Steel, and she was writing her dissertation. We kind of stuck, and we started writing some collaborations to blow off steam from our allegedly real work.
(8) THE BLUE MARBLE REDUX. NASA has released a new high-resolution Earthrise image.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon.
“The image is simply stunning,” said Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “The image of the Earth evokes the famous ‘Blue Marble’ image taken by Astronaut Harrison Schmitt during Apollo 17, 43 years ago, which also showed Africa prominently in the picture.”
(9) LOCAL STAR WARS. The BBC explores the question “Could a war in space really happen?”
In the past the nuclear balance between the US and the USSR helped to prevent war in space. The modern world is more complex and already some 60 countries are active in space. So is a war involving attacks on satellites now becoming more likely?
Millions have been enjoying the Hollywood version of conflict in distant parts of the universe as the new Star Wars film is released. It’s enjoyable escapism – space conflict is, after all, nothing to do with reality. Or is it? According to military analyst Peter Singer of the New America Foundation, “the idea of… fighting in space was once science fiction and now it’s real”.
Space wars may not involve intergalactic empires or spacecraft zapping each other. If they occur they are likely to be focused on things that matter hugely to all of us – satellites.
(10) LASERS AT WAR. “US Air Force planes armed with laser guns soon and maybe shields too” asserts Marie Singer at Market Business News.
US Air Force planes could be armed with Star Wars type laser guns by the end of this decade, and maybe shields that protect aircraft from incoming missiles and bullets, says the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which is scheduled to demonstrate the technology by 2020.
Larger aircraft are already able to carry laser weapons fit for their size. However, developing effective and usable laser technology for the smaller warplanes is more challenging. Apart from being small enough not to undermine the fighter jet’s agility, they need to be accurate and effective when travelling at supersonic speeds.
(11) Today In History
- December 19, 1960 – NASA’s first successful launch of a Mercury Redstone rocket. (Via io9.)
- December 19, 1986 – The Little Shop of Horrors musical remake, was seen for the first time on this date. Both Martin Scorsese and John Landis were attached to direct before the job finally went to Frank Oz. The original had an unknown actor playing in the title role, Jack Nicholson.
(12) Today’s Birthday Boy
- Born December 19, 1975 – Brandon Sanderson
(13) FORWARDING ADDRESS. Jeffrey A. Carver has moved his blog Pushing a Snake Up a Hill. Click the link and you’ll discover where.
(14) BANDERSNATCH REVIEW. Sherwood Smith reviews Diana Pavlac Glyer’s new book in “Bandersnatch—writing and writers’ groups” at Book View Café.
In The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, (which I talked about here) Diana Pavlac Glyer established herself among the foremost Inklings scholars. It’s one of those rarities, a deeply academic book that is also immensely readable.
That book proved that the Inklings really were a collaborative group, and not a bunch of lone geniuses who got together regularly to read bits then retreated to their man caves for more solitary labor.
In Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings, she shows how they did it. I reviewed the book specifically over at Goodreads, but in this post I’d like to use the book as a springboard to write up some thoughts about writing groups and different meanings of collaboration, as this is a subject (or net of subjects) that I always like discussing.
(15) THE BOOK OF PUPPY. Matthew Foster’s Welcome to the Doomsphere: Sad Puppies, Hugos, and Politics was released in Kindle form on December 17.
After several years of unrest in science fiction fandom, a gang of authors under the banners Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies came to town to change the Hugo awards and perhaps publishing, and to turn over a few tables. Regular fandom responded, with many of the major names in F&SF literature being drawn into the brawl. What followed was cheating, lies, insults, rape and death threats, challenges to duel, letters to the police, harassment, boycotts, racial slurs, accusations of censorship, and according to one major Pup author, sodomy…so much sodomy.
For nearly six months, the best authors of our generation stopped writing books and started arguing. Was it the culture wars entering literary science fiction? Was it mainly White, mainly male fans trying to turn back the clock? Was it an attack on freedom of speech? Was it revenge for past slights or a cunning plan to sell a lot of books?
Foster told his Facebook followers the book has already received the first of what he predicts will be many one-star reviews.
(16) THE DOCTOR. I didn’t know any Antonelli apologists before Dr. Mauser raised his hand in “The Antonelli Affair” at Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas.
If one takes the position that Gerrold is merely an internet blowhard, and that he doesn’t actually mean any of it to take place outside of his fevered imagination, then contacting the police over an internet crank was probably taking things too far. And to Lou’s credit, he did what any proper gentleman should have done, he admitted his mistake (such as it was) and apologized.
His apology fit all of the criteria I’ve spelled out before for what makes up a proper apology. He laid out exactly what he had done, owned it, admitted that his actions were inappropriate, made it right by retracting his police complaint, and promised to not do it again. He did not try to justify it by saying anything about what Gerrold had said that concerned him enough to think a police report was necessary. That would be trying to shift blame, and not proper for a true apology.
Mr. Gerrold graciously accepted the apology, and in any civilized society, this would be the end of the issue.
Of course, this is not a civilized society we’re talking about, this is Fandom.
In any case, the SJW side of fandom rose in coordinated furor over this revelation, making all kinds of demands for Lou’s head, literally and figuratively.
Dr. Mauser finds fault with everyone else’s behavior but Antonelli’s, who immediately abandoned the self-imposed penance he announced at the time: “I need to ponder the hurt I have caused. To give me time to think, after Sasquan I am taking a half-year hiatus from attending any conventions and/or submitting any fiction.”
(17) THE LONGEST DAY. Robert Kerr shot this picture at the Hollywood and Highland Metro Red Line station on the way home from seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens yesterday.
Jedis on the subway. Photo by Robert Kerr.
John King Tarpinian’s caption: “After a hard day at Padawan school even Jedi need to take the subway back to Coruscant.”
(18) POINT AND SHOOT. Grim humor from Cheezburger – a comic “That Wouldn’t Be a Long Movie – Sean Bean as 007 in….“
[Thanks to Will R., Iphinome, Michael J. Walsh, Soon Lee, Steven H Silver, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Will R.]
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SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
This one is painful. But I think Empire takes it
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Ok, so we’re down to movies I’ve seen and care about.
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2001 is a very nearly perfect movie, in my opinion, assuming one forgives its pacing. There’s a bobble with liquid clearly being affected by gravity when it’s supposed to be in a microgravity, and the weird lightshow towards the end really doesn’t have any informational content. But I love it.
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Not even difficult. I never like TESB, still don’t, never will. And Bladerunner is my second favorite sf movie.
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
Ok, that one was close.
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
I feel really good about this one. I’m weird, my favorite ST movie is The Motionless Picture.
Ow.
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
1. Metropolis
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars
4. Star Trek II
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. 2001 (1968)
2. Bladerunner (1982)
3. Star Wars (1977)
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
DEATH TO THE MACHINES Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED! Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Yuck, I voted for a Star Trek, but only because it was running against a Star Trek parody that I never finished watching. If only it had been running against the first Zap Brannigan episode of Futurama!
1. Metropolis (1927)
2. Bladerunner (1982)
3. Star Wars (1977)
4. Galaxy Quest (1999)
1. Metropolis (1927)
2. Bladerunner (1982)
3. Star Wars (1977)
4. Galaxy Quest (1999)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
Sorry Fritz.
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner
Empire is the best of the Star Wars movies but Star Wars is the better movie. Empire beats Star Wars because it pulls us into the ongoing story and brings the characters to life with better dialogue. However, aside from ‘this is how you do sequels’, it simply isn’t the demonstration of film-making that Star Wars is and without Star Wars there isn’t Empire. Hence, I’m going for Bladerunner in the above match-up and Star Wars in the one below.
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Flash-Forbidden-633-Squadron-Fortress-Gordon, the sequel to this movie is Quentin Tarrantino’s Pulp Fiction.
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
This film made Star Trek immortal.
This is atrociously, gleefully awful. I would like ALL the forehead cloths:
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
Not all the sequences work in it, but HAL is one of the greatest villains of all time, and more memorable than any single Metropolis character. HAL also spawned one of my favorite commercials:
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
OYYYYYYYY.
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
Voting for Empire above; can’t vote for two Star Wars films, and Aliens is spectacular: tough, hardened Marines against an even tougher opponent. People told Cameron they couldn’t build Ripley’s fighting machine at the end, so he BUILT IT HIMSELF.
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Star Trek II is essential to Galaxy Quest, and one of the two best movies of 1982.
Side note: I hate the fact that I (a comedy writer) voted against the only comedy left, but… it’s KHAAAAAAAAN!
Greg: Khan having made it this far, people must really like it. To me, Wrath of Khan is too campy to upvote beyond a certain point.
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1.2001 (1968)
2.Bladerunner (1982)
3. Star Wars (1977)
4.Galaxy Quest (1999)
It’s like I’m channeling Lydy.
builds fort out of cases of cloths
1. 2001
2. ponders deeply, whines, flips coin Blade Runner
3. sighs in relief Star Wars
4. buries self in cloths, moans quietly, flips coin repeatedly Abstain
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
I will grant camp points for Ricardo Montalban dressed in an Elfquest mullet and fur vest and fake pecs. And Kirk’s red-faced trembling cry of “Khaaaannnn!” is iconic.
But I think “Galaxy Quest” is a better film.
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
I might give you a different answer on a different day, but that’s where it is today.
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
See, here’s the thing, I think Blade Runner and Aliens are better films, but I grew up wanting a lightsaber. So there you go.
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
Urgh, ow, ow, ow…
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Aliens (1986)
You have got to be shittin’ me!
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
2. Empire Strikes Back
Because I have always loved Star Wars
3. Aliens
Because I have always, oh wait, because….
4. Galaxy Quest
…I am all about Team Sigourney
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
Ouch, ouch, ouch
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Oh, painful but the parody wins
Eek!
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
Meh. I haven’t seen “Metropolis” (I know! I’m horrible!) and I didn’t like “2001” really.
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Oh no you didn’t! Very tough, and I’ll regret this vote some time soon. ;-(
(calls to @Cally) HEADCLOTH!
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Those last two are very ouchy. I’m making what I think are underdog votes. I almost did a Kyra-tie for both of them but decided that was wimping out. I will be satisfied with whatever film wins in these two match ups. Just sad at the ones that lose. 🙁
1 Abstain
2 Bladerunner
3 Aliens
4 ST2:WOK
@ Cally, I’ll take one gross of forehead cloths.
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Voting closes in one hour.
VOTING IS CLOSED!
RESULTS: SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927) – 18 votes
2001 (1968) – 28 votes
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. So it is easier to just pull the plug. Daisy, Daisy, the clock has stopped for Metropolis and tower of Babel comes stumbling down.
WINNER: 2001
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982) – 19 votes
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – 29 votes
It’s too bad Bladerunner can’t win, but then again, who does? All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain.
WINNER: The Empire Strikes Back
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977) – 34 votes
Aliens (1986) – 13 votes
“Everythings under control. Situation normal. A slight weapons malfunction. Everything is perfectly alright now. We’re fine now. We’re all fine here now, thank you.” But around Han is a mountain of alien corpses. They have been
nerve gased, shot, bombed, nuked and sent out of the airlock.
WINNER: Star Wars
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) – 24 votes
Galaxy Quest (1999) – 21 votes
At their first clash with Khan, Security Chief ‘Roc’ Ingersol is killed. “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged!”, says Dr. Lazarus in a threatening voice, but he is missing a replacement Beryllium Sphere on board. Khan activates the Genesis Device inside the Thermians Klaatu Nebula – they missed out on the Barada Nikto part. As the matter of the nebula is reorganized, together with the NESA Protector and its crew, Commander Taggart lets out a final scream of frustration:
“KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!”
WINNER: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
*coff* “Never give up! Never surrender!” *coff*
The Semi Finals are open for voting here.
Y’know, this would be easier if you guys had eliminated more of my absolute favorites earlier on, instead of leaving so many of them to go head-to-head in these final rounds!
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
It’s a tough call. Both classics, but neither a particularly compelling watch for me. They’re beautifully made, and gorgeous to look at, but a bit short on the interesting-story part and long on…being long. Overall, I think Metropolis wins on the rewatchability front just a touch. Though 2001 sure is purty. But it’s hard to follow if you haven’t read the book.
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
Ouch, very hard choice, but I have to go with the one I think is a better story. Yes, it left out big chunks of Dick’s novel, but it’s one of the few adaptations that deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the original. Whereas TESB is…a sequel.
And now, the really painful choices….
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Aliens (1986)
This decision took me a long time. This and Star Wars are probably the two movies that left me most stunned when I first saw them. It’s really, really, really hard to choose one over the other, but I suspect that Aliens is a bit of an underdog, so I’ll go with it.
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
And my two favorite Star Trek movies, head-to-head. Which, since I seriously love Trek, is incredibly painful! But ultimately, I don’t think the actual Trek movies were as good as the TV show, so I’m going to go with the tongue-in-cheek version. We need something funny in the next round; funny is always underrated.
Edit: whoops, missed the deadline. That’s what I for being distracted by the holidays and such. Oh well…
Down to the best of the best! Thanks again, @Hampus Eckerman!