I've got a distillery within 50 miles of me that makes an amazing white whiskey... so I sure hope so. =)

Over the years I've developed what I consider to be a fairly dry, ironic wit (must have been all that British TV I grew up on, and Edmund Blackadder is still my hero in that regard), but I once got challenged by my father-in-law to "tell me a joke"—and I completely floundered. I couldn't call anything to mind... I…

I'm pretty sure I was taught this in 1999.

My $30,000+ associate's degree. Biggest mistake ever.

I heard that the flavor varies from person to person.

I watched it. I was basically exactly the guy he describes above. I expected fan-film quality, was blown away by the production value and got genuinely dramatically invested, and then at the end, I was like ".......WTF was that?!"

Someone else mentioned that for them, HFCS tastes sweeter than real sugar!

Right! Flavor is king :D

It's probably got a lot to do with what we're primed for. Like I mentioned, I drank way too much regular US soda growing up, so I'm probably inured to the sweetness of HFCS, whereas it's the other way around for you.

It is probably entirely the ever-increasingly-potent Placebo Effect (or possibly conditioning, given just how much soda I consumed as a youngin'), but I find that, for me, real sugar is sweeter than HFCS, which means that my taste buds shut off and say "no more" at a much lower level.

My earliest memory of computers looked something like this...

Excellent news indeed. My wife and I watched the pilot and were enthralled. I can't wait to see what they do with it. The atmosphere, visual effects and acting seemed pitch-perfect, with no big-name actors to draw attention away from the characters. Even Rufus Sewell (who is one of my favs) seemed almost invisible in…

Hm. I feel the concept for a new horror flick, Lossless, coming to me.

My wife and I had our first date on February 16th. We eschew Valentine's in exchange for a nice day on our anniversary instead, and to our luck never have to deal with the awfulness.

When I first learned about Augustus, I was briefly convinced that he was a time traveler of some kind. The man seemed to totally understand his culture, the dynamics of the rising power of Rome, and exactly where to apply the perfect leverage in order to basically make himself the master of the world... but his plan…

Wow, I really, sincerely wish I had the time to apply for this as a second job right now. I love Roll20 and game mastering.

For anyone who hasn't read it, I highly recommend checking out The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein. It is such an excellent story, which uses the mythos without retreading the constant refrain of the usual suspects.

M:tG may be WAY more confusing than when I played it regularly (...which is now 20 years ago, sigh) but say one thing for it, say they always nail the artwork.

IMHO, it's always been very important that before the Star Trek world ended scarcity, World War III knocked the population back down to the hundreds-of-thousands. That's a real apocalypse, and one that might actually cause people to wake up and realize how stupid most of our everyday squabbles and frustrations are.

Aha, then there's a comparable phrase requiring precisely the same amount of non-interaction: