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and so Moonraker was instead chosen for Moore’s second Bond film.

No, but she shouldn’t wear leggings or pajamas either. Regular pants, like any 10 year old girl might have, would have been fine. Read more

What’s especially despicable about United is the fact that this latest jaw-dropping incident doesn’t seem out of the ordinary for the airline. It was just a couple of weeks ago that United refused to allow three young girls to board their flight, because they were wearing leggings. United didn’t apologize for that… Read more

“C-130 jet”`?!? Read more

Automated Teller Machine Machine?

I...hmmm...there aren’t many well known firestarters. Read more

Musée Méchanique in San Francisco has a great collection of both 80s arcade machines and other penny arcade-type gaming devices going back a good hundred years. I remember walking by another 80s arcade under construction near my hotel in Nob Hill (this was about 4 years ago) but I don’t know its current status.

or have a real live girlfriend that can appreciate an awesome $150 droid

Which obviously you have not, as you have time to post insulting comments on a website devoted to toys.

we still watch but I was sad when “perky” Penny was replaced with “worky” Penny.

I really don’t understand all the Big Bang Theory hate. Yes, it amplifies certain stereotypes to ridiculous levels, but that’s what comedy is. As a scientist and engineer, I love it.

MICRO MACHINES ARE BACK?!?!

In an interview, Leonard Nimoy said he had a flip phone for a while, when those were a thing, and one day he was using it on a street corner somewhere, and it finally hit him that he was using a thing like the show had, for real. He said he just laughed and laughed at the realization and his slowness to notice it.

I’m more sad about the lack of cookies than I am about the lack of friends....

The right analog stick not being horizontally aligned with the D-pad bothers me.

I want to try printed meat now.
And I’m not stopping at beef, pork, and chicken.
I want to print and eat some panda steaks, hippo ribs, and dodo wings.

This is, I bawled by damn eyes out when the news footage of this thing went live. I mean wept like a little girl. There’s no way in hell I could get through this movie without breaking down and collapsing in the theatre. Read more

Don’t know, I guess it’s better as well. Try connecting TNO otherwise? You’re the writer, so you could ask them!

I enjoyed it viscerally, both as a spectacle and because some of the acting was really good despite a bad script and plot (especially from Raffey Cassidy). Maybe it’s because the movie was so goddamn earnest that it rubbed off on me - I loved that it had an unabashedly optimistic message.
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Are you gonna go get the papers now?