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Spaceships and guns!
Chicks in chain mail!
Unicorns and dragons!
Disease and catastrophe!
Aliens and time travel!

Remember?

Science fiction animation

At one end of the SF animation scale there's the state of the art: Avatar.

And then there's episode 1 of the 1973 Star Trek animated series "More tribbles, more troubles". William Shatner doesn't make a very convincing animated figure.

Supermarket trolley redux

Rememer that tricky corner in the supermarket carpark? Of course you do. I've taken it a few times since then but today I think I finally nailed it despite--or perhaps because of--a shocking undersupply of spoons. Perhaps neccessity was the mother of invention and today I could only afford the most economic of motions.

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