Well, it finally had to happen...

[conuly]

Somebody finally looked for Ender's Game. I can no longer say "it's never Ender's Game, it's always Virtual War" - though, interestingly, they didn't even a little mention the remotely fought war aspect, nor the eponymous "game". The words "virtual" and "war" did not even come up.

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Comments

Time capsule

[lauradi7dw]

I watched part of the time capsule unpacking as it was live streamed (near the end, as it turned out, so I didn't see the struggles to open the box). It was cool to see the almanac emerge, but I realized we have books older than 1875 in our house. Probably nobody expected at the time that almanac data would be easily searchable online when the box was dug up.

[adrian_turtle]

I had never thought of bundt cakes as specifically American things, nor as particularly things of post-1960s world. Certainly not so new as to be unrecognizable! If I brought someone a bundt cake in a tupperware cake holder, I'd expect them to be more surprised by the tupperware. Tube pans for angel food cakes had been a thing since around WW1 (though I don't know how popular angel food cakes were, outside the southern US. I think I first tasted one as a teenager in the early 1980s and thought it was a bad joke of a dessert.) But I'd seen the pans in stores, and seen the cakes in bakeries.