Echo-niner
Echo-niner
Echo-niner

I do have shitty hearing. Too much time around military aircraft and too many concerts, I think. I actually had someone test me yesterday and I have pretty significant high-frequency hearing loss.

The Uncanny Valley just got more canny.

Like Nathan Fillon and Chris Isaak had a baby...

This book is the book I try to get non-sci-fi readers to read. I have more luck with Ender's Game, but this is the one I prefer more.

I read all the manifold books, but that was by far the best of the three.

So it wasn't just me that couldn't hear the dialogue in the movie?

The prison in Tron similar, but more comfortable.

Less of a sub-plot and more of a tone/setting issue, but when I read the Hunger Games, I envisioned (and I feel the book described) Appalachia in our world and it is a lot more depressing than the Appalachia of the movies.

This was also the movie I immediately thought of. I came out of the theater feeling like they filmed the beginning and the end of the movie and totally forgot the entire middle part. Such a bizarre series of choices for what the film was about.

Excellent point. I do like the fact that they actually put thought into it, even if I don't care for when they alter the source material.

My mom used to do oral versions of the twilight zone episodes as bedtime stories. My mom was awesome.

I am usually one of the last people on the plane. I sit at the gate, reading, perusing the Internet or snarling Cinnabon. Once the hoi polloi has subsided, I will calmly gather my belongings, saunter up to the desk, and present my pass, then directly walk all the way to my assigned seat and place my single small

97% of all porsche's purchased in the last 25 years are still on the road.

Probably going to require a rim better suited for a high profile tire. Can't see a twenty inch rim outfitted in these with good road manners

^this is the definitive comment on this thread. Please place it at the top of the column.

Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles.

Unless the device is moving through* time and not an instantaneous jump. If that were the case, it would be affected by gravity during the course of its travel and would stay securely affixed to the earth.

And what do you do for the cause of human advancement? Can we criticize you in any way? Probably not, because it's highly unlikely you've ever done anything of note.