My daughter told me she read some study about the increases in oxytocin that dogs and humans experience on reunions.  For humans it was something like 5%, for dogs more like 90%.

That’s love.

As always I love these posts.

Isn’t that reaction cool, though? That holy-shit-is-everyone-else-seeing-this way Scout looks back and forth from my daughter to the rest of us is the most powerful (anecdotal) evidence I can imagine that she really does have a theory of mind. It makes me happy just thinking about it.

My daughter is off at law school right now. Every time she comes back from a few months away, I position myself to take video of the two dogs greeting her. (I greet her as well eventually, but first things first.)

Shoulda linked it before. I hope you enjoy it.

Ever heard the cover by Frente?  It’s heartbreakingly good.

The Martians and the Lunar Robots is the name of my new sf-themed prog-rock band. Our first album will be A Game of Socker on the Moon.

Thanks for your kind words. Truth is I fucking love my job. Just started my 29th year, and there’s always something new.

I’m a high school English teacher and pretty much the same way. Even when it comes to irony. I think there was an Oatmeal comic a while ago that told me to chill out on misidentifications of irony, but I’m holding the line on this one: a mere coincidence is not irony.

Hashtag down with prescriptivism lawl! You go, human!

Agreed completely. It was made without any respect for the source material and doesn't play nicely with the rest of the series. By ignoring the backstory of Harry's parents, it ends up being pretty but hollow. It's often the favourite movie among those who refuse to read the books in my experience.

I’d probably just ignore it.  Oh, maybe you could have Cole squint at him for a moment questioningly.  Real down-low, just daring us to question it.  Or something cleverer than that to make us chuckle, but I’m not in a clever head-space right now.

I don’t know about best, but she really grabbed that role and ran with it. I think I most loved Roger Delgado. I have only one Master, and it is he.

Leela was a genius invention.  Totally different from anyone in the show before, funny, honest, forthright.  I did love those days.

The Sixth Sense spin-off should have ties to the Unbreakable-verse.

When they do another clone episode in season two:  The Trouble with Trubels.

A close second to Pertwee and Sarah Jane.  Close enough, in fact, that I’ll give it to you.

I actually considered mentioning murderbot as a counterexample. I loved the first one but will not read the others at those prices. I really don't know what they're doing with that particular pricing plan...

I agree that it doesn’t look great from a PR perspective, but it is just a study after all.  If they keep their results pretty open, they may end up demonstrating that the availability of library ebooks doesn’t much depress sales.  That would be really useful information to have.