Full speed ahead or evasive maneuvers? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.

And thus the principle of Chekhov’s elephant jetpack is confirmed.

Invisible mountains raise questions that demand answers! Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied (slightly early this week) on Wednesday and the result shown on Friday.

This is definitely going to end well! Oh yes!

Which question will Cromwell ask next? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.

And so off they went to Vegas! The End.

Disagreement? Or significance? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.

What if we also throw in a free toaster oven and new set of kitchen knives?

Terribly worrying or terrible metaphor? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.

It is with a heavy heart that I come to type the phrase “elephant jetpack” for the last… well, the last time until there’s an emergency, anyway.