I bought almost none* of these, but I made a number of other stupid purchases instead.

That was hella good.

That was hella good.

“Is there anything I should be more clear about?” or “Is there anything I have not made clear?”  It shifts the responsibility from the students to me.  I learned this one from my high school drama teacher more than thirty years ago when I was volunteering in his class to get come cred to apply to teacher’s college. …

+10 would watch

+10 Will buy.

My take on the whole Stan and Jack thing is that they were absolutely both essential to the success of what they did together. The best proof of that is the crap nature of what they did apart. Without Stan, Jack Kirby was increasingly ungrounded. Some of his DC stuff is fun, but his indy stuff in the 80s was nonsense.…

See, this is the kind of comment I look for when I go read the comments.  Positive and appreciative.  I hope something good happens for you today.

I was a kid and all, but I remember being frightened by it.

Yeah, it’s true that I go cheap. I’ll adjust the following prices into American approximates for you. I won’t spend more than five bills on a computer, usually. For that, I was getting windows machines that would last, as I say, three or four years, and be miserably slow in the last year. Now admittedly when I started…

I’m adding it to my TBW list. Also on that list: The Office.

Thing is, I’ve never owned a Windows laptop for more than four years. Generally they average about three and they’re too slow, with batteries that will no longer get through more than two hours of work.  Plus five minutes to boot up and an hour for a system update.

Oh, so I was missing something.  I’ve never actually watched Archer.  Should I?

Should have scrolled down.  Someone else got it way before me.  I did say it was right there.  Serves me right.

I like the idea here, but try Terminators of Endearment.

See, either one of those as an opening I could have respected a lot more.

The internet and society interact. How the internet will look like in 2030 depends on how society will develop. History is the history of class and social struggles, which is why the future is not determined and relatively open. It all depends on human praxis. The future of society and the internet range on a…

I’m totally deaf in one ear.  Can I leave one of them at home and then switch out when I lose the other one?

I love me my Pixel Slate, warts and all. Sure, there are software glitches, and sure I wish it were 20% lighter and maybe 30% faster (and had been 40% cheaper...) but I can get work done on it, and then use it for all kinds of games, reading and other consumption.

I love those too. Stephen R. Donaldson had a good one with The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through, though some people don’t like his tortured protagonists. The Magicians by Lev Grossman does some good portal stuff. Joe Hill’s Nos4A2 has some good portals. Steven Gould’s Wildside had just one portal in it,…