Well, to be fair it’s just “the men of science” who messed shit up.  I bet the women of science are still all peer-reviewing and publishing and whatnot.  As you do.

Next year’s headline.

Spoiler warning:  the following sour complaints contain some mild spoilers for this stupid, stupid movie.

‘Smith!’ screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. ‘6079 Smith W.!

That was one of my earliest experiences of trying to force myself to like something because I so, so wanted it to be good.  Oh, young me.  So foolish.  You’ll keep on making that mistake.

That whole “separate internet for trolls” is kind of a sub-plot in Neal Stephenson’s newest novel, Fall, Or Dodge in Hell, which is hella good.

They always show you the artist’s impression of the planet, but they never tell you the planet’s impression of the artist.

Aaaand now I’m off to listen to that song.  It’s such a good one!  That Phil Collins!

Never once crossed a theatre door.  That was it for them and the cinemas.

I blame this movie for the end of an enjoyable part of my childhood. I was thirteen, my sister two years older. My parents took us, and my take on it is that we were all so disappointed and bored that the arguments and quibbling on the way back to the car are directly attributable to the movie, and not to our teenage…

Thanks so much for asking. He’s doing very well. Mostly it hasn’t been an issue. He never went for any sports that it would have mattered in; he’s followed his brother into weightlifting for some bizarre reason, and that’s a nicely bilateral activity.

See, this is the kind of comment I like -- one that just shows appreciation.  You win one internet star, and four positivity points.  Make sure to add those to your character sheet.

Right on.  So well said.  Thank-you for saying it like it is.  He’s not going to listen, but he doesn’t matter.  Other people need to hear you take on that shit.

New Mutants II:  The Old Mutants

If none of it matters, then why bother to comment? Checkmate, bitch.

Looks like corporate is telling them to stay classy, stay grateful, and stay low. That clears the rest of us to do all the whining and complaining so we can get Sony to steer clear of driving this beautiful machine off a cliff into a garbage fire of garbage and damned souls howling for relief from their eternal…

Man, that’s a lot of machines. What I’ve realized I want is a 12 inch tablet with the weight of a 10, and a good, stiff connection to a detachable keyboard. Give me a fast processor in that (my Slate is just about enough running ChromeOS), and maybe I can do with just one machine.

Oh, it’s abandoned alright. The bullet might not have hit yet, but the gun has been fired. Seven months after they first started selling it, Google announced that they’re not making anymore tablets. They recently put the Slate on a big sale. I know they’ll do patches and keep it getting regular Chrome OS updates, but…

Have you looked at the Pixel Slate? I mean, it’s expensive (and still a little buggy), and... abandoned by Google. But personally? I love mine. It does laptop really well, and is only slightly too heavy in tablet mode.

I wonder how this compares to the production of DVDs and other physical media. My sense of it was that bits are always better than atoms environmentally speaking. I once read that when you've read 70 books on your Kindle it has paid its environmental debt. Are there similar calculations for streaming vs. DVDs?