Not a phrase you usually hear. From Fearnet:

Pictures and descriptions here. It's eerie; feels like a trip back to Jurassic Park after all the unpleasantness. Disney things aren't supposed to be abandoned. Makes you realize how much they own down there - and how they're probably planning a new park in secret. But what? It seems as if they have everythng covered. Nature: check. The Future: check. Europe: check. Hollywood: check. Old West: check. Wonder if there's anyone in charge of coming up with the next theme park idea, and every night he or she goes to bed drained from the effort. Another day. Nuthin'.

MONEY From the website Billfold, the social capital behind checks:

You almost hate to go to the comments, because there will be someone who says "What's a check?" (So far, no.) Never understood why professing ignorance of something that was big in the recent past is a sign of cleverness, especially when it invites a straight reply: well, it's a piece of paper understood to symbolize a medium of exchange, much like money itself; it contains a series of numbers that tie it to a bank account, and a register in which people may enter their transactions so they have a running total of their financial resources. Does that help?"

But no one asked that so I'm punching a strawman, I suppose.

ABOUT THAT CITY IN CHINA This article on Motherboard speculates that tipping might be on the way out. Don't see that happening, but it makes interesting points about wags, tip-pooling for the back kitchen staff, and so on. Apparently there's no tipping in Australia, which led to this exchange in the comments:

To which a sour person replies:

Hey, let's go around the internet and look for people behaving like Americans, and put them in their place! Some people. Really.

RETREADS Anything left in this schtick? We'll see:

If that doesn't interest you, try this:

The reason fans are excited:

So we'd get an ending. Maybe we'd get an update on what Evil Coop was up to; one shudders to think.

VoTD Finally, a reminder: black ice is everywhere. Slow down. Or:

It begins on the bridge. Doesn't stop there, alas.