The EU books, games, and comics before the prequel movies was peak Star wars. Thrawn trilogy, young Jedi series, rogue squadron series, bounty hunter short stories, x wing and tie fighter games, old Republic games and comics, dark forces, etc.

Some code I wrote is buried in an archive storage underground in the Arctic

If you had some code in an active GitHub repo before February 2020 you may too, https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

I asked him about his novelty “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go” front license plate. We lived in a state that just requires rear plates. I think I was around 8 or 9. That was my first introduction to unearned authority and fucked up nepotistic power hierarchies. He also had a couple good songs about destroying the company store and a few about fortified/bum wines (not an alcoholic himself but grew up around them).