There is an enthusiast discussion group at

https://groups.io/g/DIGI-COMP/topics

In late 1970s, I spent two months hitching and riding trains around Europe, just an external frame backpack and a sleeping bag. A few years ago, I spent 2.5 weeks in U.K. and Ireland, with an 18-liter backpack and a waist bag (a.k.a. fanny pack ), which made getting around a breeze especially at airports and on trains. It even allowed me to carry a notebook computer. As mentioned in TFA, merino wool and no cotton garments helps. The rain was a minor inconvenience, but I did have lodging where I could get things rinsed and dried out in my room. I did buy an umbrella but should have splurged on better quality, even if I would end up abandoning it.

Best packing advice I ever received: take half as many clothes, and twice as much money, as you think you'll need.

>My dad talks of regular Nuclear War drills in elementary school.

The boomer generation covers 18 years. While such drills may have been common for those in school during the 1950s, I suspect it was much less by the 1960s.

>Yes, there is a five year waiting period to withdraw contributions from a Roth IRA

No, there is not. Per IRS Publication 590-B, "You don't include in your gross income qualified distributions or distributions that are a return of your regular contributions from your Roth IRA(s)."

There is no five year clock for withdrawing your own Roth contributions. Contributions (not earnings or conversions) can be withdrawn at any time with no tax or penalty.

I just finished re-reading this a month ago. In the book, the process went a little further. The books were shredded into confetti-sized pieces first, then as the shreds were blown about in the air, many photos were taken, and then AI was used to stitch the fragmentary pieces of text together into the original pages.

Perhaps related to a recent change, where you now must be logged in to IMDB.com in order to view the User Reviews for movies.

(2017)

>Dismissed by some as Monopoly or plastic money, the new £5 and £10 notes in particular have come in for heavy criticism.

Also featured in the 1985 novel Footfall by Niven and Pournelle.

"God was knocking, and he wanted in bad"

>Stay tuned for Part 2 where I explore the why for this practice.

Took me a minute or two scrolling through the article before I found what I was looking for, at the very end.

Somebody strings an arrow you get wary, they half draw in your direction and you rethink what you're doing.

Gun, knife, pointy stick, even a rock- It's a fundamental reaction that belongs in a philosophy or psychology discussion. Not a part 2.

I must really not be the target audience because this seems to be esoterica relevant only to that industry.