The neighbors of Marie and Heinie were also visited and these gemuetlich (comfortable) days of good food and playing board games with Marie and Heinie in the evenings or going with Dieter and his friends to a pub passed quickly.

Joab is a two-mooned habitable planet that is most well known for its mass extinction event. Thousands of years ago, Joab was home to a primate-like spacefaring civilization as well as abundant flora and fauna. However, this can only be deduced from time capsules put into the ground well outside habitation centers -- all cities and detectable dwellings were targeted in a massive orbital bombardment that turned them into vapor. The resulting dust shroud killed all photosynthetic life and all fauna dependent on it.

Mr. Jobs seized on the multitouch technology after Apple product designers proposed it as a “safari pad,” a portable Web surfing appliance.

These, apart from nocturnal ambulism, are the simplest conditions of systematised partial waking.