How are you fulfilling your patriotic duty to consume ad nauseam?

[pchang]

Glory be! Foie gras is back on the menu in California! I will be consuming a bunch of that shortly.

[Aeson]

I have a subscription to Netflix.

[Elok]

I heard on a podcast lately that there's this one farmer in Spain who makes free-range foie gras. He's some kind of goose whisperer or something, he's worked out a way to convince the geese to gorge themselves naturally. And, apparently, it's really damn good foie gras, if you like that kind of thing, because the geese get a marvelously varied diet that all goes to the liver. Anyway, enjoy your fatty goose parts, man.

[Bereta_Eder]

I just finished the whole series that Leviathan Wakes is a part of. Do you read it in English or have they translated it to Greek?

In english, it's not yet translated in greek.
Since we are on the subject, what is the exact meaning of "bulkhead"? I found this word again and again on the book but I'm not sure of its meaning. It is where people sleep on a (space)ship, or is it the curved gates spaceships might have? Or something else?
edit:The dictionary has it as "diafragma" which usually means the little thing you've got between your two nostrils in the nose. I suspect that's not the correct meaning in the book's context. It also has it as "ship division" or "ship viawall". No idea what those are either.

Also other books on a similar trend that I've read and can recommend" Man on Mars"
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian (this I finished in two days but it was translated in greek)

and "across the universe" trilogy
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...s-the-universe. this is a bit girly but still worth it.
(it's apparent sometimes I prefer to leave this planet)

[Elok]

"Bulkhead" is what they call a wall inside a ship. That's it. Kind of like a toilet in a ship has to be a "head," and left and right are "port" and "starboard."

[N35t0r]

I'd say that it would be a wall that divides different 'rooms' inside the spaceshp, the outer hull would not qualify as a bulkhead.

[Thoth]

left and right are "port" and "starboard."

Left is only port if you are facing the front of the boat.

[Sir Og]

I ate KFC in Bulgaria. They put a hash brown on a chicken sandwich.

USS DONALD COOK (DDG 75)?

[Bereta_Eder]

the bulgarians are on top of things

[Sir Og]

I caught the news about this ship being in Varna this morning but there seem to be no KFC in Varna.
Also that ship is a destroyer and Albi is supposed to be in the marines. Are there any marines on destroyers?

Anyway the only KFC on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria is in Burgas according to KFC's website.

[ricketyclik]

Left is only port if you are facing the front of the boat.

*Head upside down looking between knees* Are you telling me there isn't any port left?

[Thoth]

*Head upside down looking between knees* Are you telling me there isn't any port left?

The port is like the rum: It's always gone.

[The Mad Monk]

"Bulkhead" is what they call a wall inside a ship. That's it. Kind of like a toilet in a ship has to be a "head," and left and right are "port" and "starboard."

Not just any wall. Bulkheads are structural elements of the hull, designed to compartmentalize the ship in the event of a breach. Unlike ordinary cabin walls which can be made thin with "normal" doors, bulkheads are thick metal with hatches.

[DaShi]

Yeah, educate yourself!

[ricketyclik]