> Glock 26 - a ceramic handgun that can't be detected by airport scanners (a reader informs us that the Glock 26 is only partly ceramic, the bullets are metal and is can be detected at airports - so we should really shift this one into the X-file list)

They pulled this directly from "Die Hard", the Glock 26 is just a cut-down Glock 19, with a big fat metal slide being integral to the gun's functionality.

... and if I recall, the Die Hard quote was about a "Glock 7", which does not and has never existed.

Correct, the Glock 7 is not a real gun.

How useful is that list if it includes words like fish, cards, redhead, Texas, and so forth?

heh, Crypto AG is on that list. prescient. though so is "speedbump" and "meta" so meh. such a weird list, extremely specific keywords like listening post codenames but then extremely common ones too.

Saying the word "privacy" triggers the global warrantless surveillance system? That's pretty amusing. They must have quite the dossier on a lot of people here, including me.

That's back when people still wore DeCSS on tshirts.

I had one of those shirts.

Unfortunately even in my circle of nerd friends, I was the only tech nerd. Everyone else was either an anime nerd or a M:TG nerd.

Yeah, that was pre Ice-Age expansion, before it all went to hell. ;-)

I started during Fallen Empires and quit shortly after Planeshift, though I never played competitively. My group of friends had just a few house rules for deck building: Minimum 60 cards, no more than 4 of any card that wasn't a basic land, and no Circles of Protection. Proxy cards were allowed, but only if you could prove you had an original.

In all the years I played, I never really learned what "Type 1" and "Type 2" deck building rules were. I basically only played during lunch in high school.

You were lucky: you actually had nerd friends...