Yeah, while in part The Last Starfighter used CGI to standout from other movies at the time— “Look at us! We’re revolutionary!”— the fact remains, all the CGI is in service of the story, to the point that you don’t care that it’s not at all real, you’re still swept up in the adventure.

Hey, did you know that was Daniel Craig?

This debate continues to be ridiculous. A pilot who is faced with decisions that could result in the life and death of innocents, the life and death of fellow Americans and allies, all with significant— and potentially catastrophic— geopolitical consequences shouldn’t have to argue for recognition superior to that…

In my jackets I find the molded ones work fine. In the pants/jeans, the flat ones can be nice because they don’t require a perfect height to be comfortable, i.e. most pants vary on how well you can adjust the height of the knee armor, sometimes making the molded armor feel uncomfortable, especially when not sitting on…

It’s the same difference in autos between Detroit muscle, Euro carving, and Japanese drifting. Love it or hate it, each fill their niche and satisfy their audience.

Get thee some Forcefield net armor, either molded or flat. Thick, but super flexible— the most comfortable I’ve ever used, all the stock armor gets swapped out for these now.

Star Wars toys have been in the news, as people reacted angrily to the distinct lack of merchandise based on The Force Awakens’ main hero, Rey—culminating in rage over a Rey-less Monopoly set.

Earlier this week, Ukranian media noticed a slight glitch wherein Google Translate was giving “Mordor” as a translation for “Russian Federation.” The good news is that they’ve fixed the problem.

To insulate large buildings while keeping overall weight down, many supertalls have what’s called a thermo-plastic core, which is essentially layers of polyurethane sandwiched between aluminum cladding. But that polyurethane can also be flammable.

#OhaithereCosmology101

Don’t necessarily need a hive mind; give me an alien species with photographic memory and the ability to speak in the radio spectrum at burst speeds— they’d be able to transmit tremendous amounts of information across great distances. You’d have a biological internet, reliant on “nodes” to store and dump data as…

How ghastly, the African-Americans in Australia must be absolutely horrified.

The obsession with EMR is one of the biggest frauds foisted on the American public. Not only is it ruinously expensive, it counter-intuitively makes care WORSE, as not only does it introduce software and medical coding errors into the mix, by forcing doctors and PAs into a rigidly defined set of notation, you lose the…

I wonder what happened to that “precision medicine plan” the President proposed a while ago. Oh well, thanks Congress.

Sadly, I wonder how accurate this miniseries will be. Many people too young to remember Jim Jones undoubtedly will fixate on the “Reverend” part, and forget just how hugely influential the communist Jones was politically in Democratic and Leftist circles. He made the likes of Al Sharpton look like pikers.

Wow, that definitely adds a measure of style!

Sheesh... next thing, some guy’s going to try and tell me they speak Austrian in Austria.

Version 2? Very much yes.

Pshaw...

Okay, I’ll give my hot take: I’m glad the television show can’t spoil the books, because the television show is BETTER.