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So ... get some secret hand signals together and talk to your wife with them...

Actually, I did that once. My wife and I play in the SCA and for a few years we sat as landed Baron and Baroness. We'd hold courts and pass out recognitions and honours and looked quite poncy with our robes and our little silver hats. It was fun.

But it also involved speaking in public as a team, often to reasonably large audiences (sometimes several hundred or so). My wife and I sat next to each other on thrones and we always held hands (awwww!). It wasn't just affection, though. We used a series of pre-agreed secret hand signals -- tap on the hand with a finger meant "Shush for a sec, let me get this point made." Two squeezes meant "I'm floundering here - could you please interrupt?". Three squeezes meant "if we don't wrap this up soon my bladder will explode" and four squeezes meant "you are so sleeping in the garage tonight for that". There were a few others, but you get the picture.

There were a number of other signals that were for our Baronial Guard - if I made the hand gesture that looked like Kirk flipping his communicator aboard, it was "beam me up Scotty" - i.e. somebody please intercept this time-waster for me. I also had pre-arranged and rehearsed with my Captain of the Guard (a particularly well-armed and mean looking dude) that I would pass my goblet up and behind me without a thought or a glance, and he'd refill it for me - and it all looked very authentic and automatic, because the signals were worked out beforehand. It made good theatre.

So there's more to communications than packets and wifi signal strength. If you get it right, it can look like ESP.

http://www.sca.org/ or http://www.sca.org.au/ if you're in Australia. Society for Creative Anachronism. Brilliant:Jerk ratio relatively high in favor of first term. Amazing what a bit of play-acting can do to drag skills out of you. Oh, and to remain on topic -- there's a fair component of serious archaeology and sociology study mixed in with the play acting. And some damn fine music.

And pie.

20% of my 4x4 SUV has never been off the road. I got the SUV because my last two cars melted under prolonged exposure to the SCA.

Ah, yea, the SCA can do that. Are you a member of SCA? I'm not a member now but I've been thinking of joining my local kingdom, Midrealm.

20% of my 4x4 SUV has never been off the road. I got the SUV because my last two cars melted under prolonged exposure to the SCA http://www.sca.org.au/

i was going to suggest using chux superwipes but those scrub pads look like a hell of a lot better & rigid.

I might try this out on my front case fan when i get a chance.

I imagine that duct tape would have many uses in space, but not this one in zero-G. (At least not as much.)

The ability to properly illuminate latin texts is probably dying out as well.

Dying out?! Nonsense its going through a revival! Geeks all over the globe in groups such as the Society for Creative Anachronism are keeping it alive. Take a look at some common work for a better idea (remember that being good at illumination doesn't make you a good webmaster though.)

Yes, I know, I'm a geek.