A technotard is a person who is unable to get around on their phone or computer or has to hand over the remote to any new technology.
Between 1818, when The Heart of Mid-Lothian reinvented the heroinely heart, and 1824, when Redgauntlet signalled Scott's joint reclamation of his complex literary heritage and of his simplest personal fantasy, the literary world changed.
We demonstrate that if the coefficient of friction is high enough, the sliding localizes within stick-slip pulses, which transform into opening waves propagating at intersonic speed in the direction of sliding or, for high Poisson's ratios, at supersonic speed in the opposite one.
One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.