I so feel this meme… and just putting it out there that there’s a good chance that pretty soon NUCs are likely to be deeply on sale.

He’s a good man, and thorough

You mean coitus?

I’m surprised no one has mentioned The Culture series by Iain M. banks. Much like Dune there is a ton of world building that occurs in the novels but it’s not the focus of any one novel. You can read them independently and still enjoy them. The concepts he tackles in the novels were way ahead of their time and his prose and s second to none. The novel Consider Phlebas is typically where most people start, but I started The Player of Games.

I was a roadie for Metallica, Speed of sound tour

I dabbled in pacifism once

Do you have a job sir?

Mind if I do a J?

Sioux City Sarsaparilla?

Yeah but that creep can roll man

At least he’s not Guy I Rub?

Don’t be fatuous Jeffery…

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

Say what you will about the tenants of Sauron but at least it’s an ethos

It would really tie the room together

Da email, da email, what what, da email!

Do I look like I’m married?

We want ze money Lewbowski

Because they were just recently discontinued by Intel and generally speaking discontinued equipment tends to go on sale.