Wait wait wait... Are you saying that coal *doesn’t* grow back if you let the empty mines lie fallow for a couple years?

Part 12 of the Carmina Burana features a swan moping over being cooked and eaten. One of the lines — dentes frendentes video — even makes you clack your teeth together as it’s spoken, mimicking gnawing on the bones. The Goliards, punk poets of the 13th Century who wrote about drinking, gambling, and shoplifting, knew…

Mutton Dew? The gamey drink for gamers?

I keep an ancient freeware file manager called ExplorerXP installed specifically for batch renaming. In addition to Replace, it also has options for Re-number, Trim, and Insert (removing/adding X number of characters starting from a user-specified point). It’s incredibly useful, but I wish there was something newer;…

Sky High. Its cast list is a real who’s-who.

I hope they’ll offer the remote for sale separately. I love my Shield, but I freaking hate the volume slider on the remote with a fiery passion. It’s slow to go up and down, and tends to not work when I want it to, but is plenty responsive when it falls face down on carpet. Oh, and mine has a habit of climbing up to…

Am I missing where he mentions the actual total of the bill?

Good grief, what a terrible, misleading headline for a terrible, misleading article. A BALLOON is not a satellite.

So basically, the only pure Homo sapiens are the ones who never left Africa. Who’s gonna tell the white supremacists?

They very much consider “influencers” to be part of their marketing team, willing or not. On the other hand, King is a genuine fan of the director’s other horror movies.

There was that book cover a year or two ago called (had to look it up) “The Man Who Was Thursday” whose cover was adorned with what were intended to be sticks of dynamite but could only be seen as tampons.

The SQUIRREL! press focuses on their fratboy antics and never bothers to point out that little detail.

It’s not “hacking” if you invite them in.

No mention of Wilbur Ross is complete without a mention of his stint running Russian mob money laundromat the Bank of Cyprus, or of the business he owned with Putin’s son-in-law.

“This would be like my position being reclassified as part of the marketing department. “

I watched an episode of that MacGyver reboot where one of the characters was at spy school for super duper spies, and he was reading a textbook titled “Criminal Methedology”. So no, CBS isn’t exactly highbrow.

Boy, that “When A Stranger Calls” schtick isn’t going to be plausible for much longer, is it? “Mommy, why is that huge cell phone stuck to the wall? How do you play Minecraft on it?” As it is, you had to have *two* landlines in the house for the original trope to work. (It would be weirder to do an homage to the…

Rouge Trooper? I thought they were blue.

Also, people constantly using “projection” when someone is caught accusing someone else of doing something that they’re actively engaging in. Projection is subconscious; you don’t realize you’re doing it. When it’s done deliberately to deflect suspicion, the right word is “misdirection.”

It’s even worse - the cannon was in an entirely system entirely, so even the blast traveled at the speed of plot. And the entire planet, by nature of the cannon’s power source, would have to be hyperspace capable. If that’s possible, why even bother with guns? Just go old-school Lensman and hyperspace entire moons or…