Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, then upgrade it. The upgrade was usually the size of the original again, so then you had something twice as large doing something three times as complex. Eventually, it would break, be fixed, and be upgraded, accumulating extra parts like barnacles growing over a sunken ship. My aunt Sally had a fridge that she ( Read more... )

The prickly feeling along the back of his neck was the tap--tap of scorpion's claws as it climbed up from the base of his spine. He closed his eyes against the crawling sensation. Hawk had startled him when it first fluttered, fish's flop over his stomach was pretty unsettling, but the crawl of scorpion up his spine was the worst of them so far ( Read more... )