Well, they recently closed down their production company in Chicago, so...

Prediction: reconstructed simulation of the dead characters from their recorded minds when they were in the Matrix. And now the movie is all about epistemological questions about what is alive or desd. Which has been beaten to death in SF for decades.

I guess they’re going to resurrect Neo and Trinity by having them now be simulated constructs in the Matrix? That’s a very venerable Cyberpunk trope (see Dixie Flatline from Neuromancer)

I don’t know which is worse: the idea that this whole “buy Greenland” thing is a deliberate distraction designed to deflect attention from something else (and we took the bait!), or the more likely scenario where Trump actually meant it when he said the USA should do it.

Maybe I’d do the same thing, but I’d know for the rest of my life that I was a craven coward.

Why does she not have the option to remain silent? I bet Disney wishes she had not decided to be vocal on this. 

Did anyone else notice that Gizmodo is advertising air travel on Emirates today? So much for swearing off air travel!

Her geart is in the right place but there is no possible way that a racing yacht is carbon-neutral. Are the sails dacron? Made from oil? In a factory? Transported by truck? Is the hull epoxy-kevlar? Or (gulp) *aluminum* (very very energy intensive to mine and smelt).

I guess getting Tony Stark to mention it *several* *times* in Iron Man... 2? didn’t pay off in raising awareness. I laughed out loud in the theater when I saw that. Wonder how much they wasted to get that ham-handed product placement?

Thus! I work for a company that competes with AWS in many product spaces, as well as with Microsoft Azure and Google. Oracle is not even on the radar screen of public cloud. Not even B-tier. C-tier or gelow!

I think that it’s no big deal that this mission got delayed. Isn’t it true that space launches (particularly major ones using new hardware) get delayed all the time?

Demogorgon. Not “demigorgon.”

Most audiobooks on Audible cost WAY more than $15, so that’s where the benefit is. I found I was buying at least one $29 book per month on average, so I bit the bullet and got a subscription.

Most audiobooks on Audible cost WAY more than $15, so that’s where the benefit is. I found I was buying at least one…

I will have to point my 14 year old daughter (crazy avid knitter) at Ravelry... though she probably already goes there and will roll her eyes at me :-)

In an odd twist, my 14 year old daughter is crazy about knitting and has created a circle of high school freshman knitters. If she didn’t have a batch of other “normal” teenage hobbies I’d be concerned :-)

This kind of thing is reported as if a knitting website decided to take a political stand. But I bet the main reason is that a formerly civil community of hobbyists has devolved into political vitriol over the past few years. This happened with the tiny hobbyist website and mailing list that I ran. Every topic turned…

I thought so too, but it appears to have resurfaced to mean information security. Not kidding. I was at a security conference last week and they were using that word in that context, and it made me cringe every time.

The English.

This is what you get for Britwashing quintessentially American characters. Spiderman... Dr. Strange... Stringer Bell... Jax Taylor... Dr. House... When will this cultural imperialism end?

Georgia: “Good riddance! That’s fewer godless liberal Hollywood elites ruining our pure god-fearin’ state” /s