The shoe story reminds me of a vaguely related story from my years running the front of a small grocery store. This was a 3-4 year period where I was basically the one cashier and produce person at a grocery store slightly larger than a trailer home. This was the only grocery store within 20 minutes, and on holidays…

Well, in T2 the same company was involved in microprocessors, presumably even before the T-800 chip was found. Sounds like the company was always more hardware and perhaps research based, and like most modern companies has also gotten into the App business. But I stand by my theory: if the consultant that has just…

I think this is due to the fact that they need at least the 1984 Arnie’s CPU, and possibly also some spare parts (Pops needs, at the least, a replacement right hand). Anything that Pops could do to 1984 Arnie up close would turn it into a scrap heap, but if Pops doesn’t get up close they risk losing track of it. So…

Cyberdyne isn’t just in the business of making OS. They’re a multi-branched technology corporation. Asking that is akin to asking why Microsoft is making Xbox and other hardware; it’s because (a) you want to cover the market as a whole, not just one small aspect (b) a private company that patents a working time…

...you are, of course, aware that the system that at least partially automates everything from the UK Predator drones (which are designated Reapers) to other modern aircraft or even submarines... is literally named Skynet in the real world, right?

Well, it’s likely part the attention and part the fact that you wouldn’t be SURE. No body, no job done. Presumably there’s factor involved in how often a time machine can be fired off; power constraints, or just a risk of going “kabloey” to the timeline.

Completely agree. He’s also probably costing people in their security department jobs, ESPECIALLY if it’s outsourced to a 3rd party (internal security would possibly be more lenient, but contractors would have to fire someone or else risk losing lots of business). Doing something like this is extremely creepy.

When I was 16, several thousand dollars went missing from the cash-up room of the large supermarket I was working at (something like $6000 in 1998). Because I’d had a few occasions in the past months where I was plus or minis $10, they made me go in there to watch the money counted up (and it was always on-par). So…

Hah, I remember those days. You know, in the early 90s it was even worse: some movies would only release rental copies of VHS (Full Moon, a horror label, is one that comes to mind), so if you wanted a copy for at home you HAD to pay that kind of money.

This is why I still have a VHS player and a PC converter. All my old VHS get periodically transferred to digital. Granted, I initially got it so that I could back up old family videos.

It’s what I used to do when I was stocking shelves at the small store I helped manage. What do you want me to do, bend over for an hour while I fill the bottom shelf of an isle with canned goods? Fuck you, irrational customer.

Yeeeeeaaaah. There’s a Jim Jefferies line that came to mind as I was writing that, specifically “licking out Madonna’s muscular vagina”.

My first gym teacher was basically “just some guy”, and looking back on it he was probably just a slightly more inspired small-town “gym trainer”. He didn’t know crap. In highschool it was extremely militant rail-thin lesbian (the kind of person who is probably 15% underweight but all muscle, so they look like a…

Wait, serious question: does this mean that I have to completely re-do my subscription folder for Marvel? :/

I really can’t argue this logic.

Doesn’t remind me of it at all, but damn do I miss that comic. That and Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic, which is also more or less dead. Ironically, after he stopped putting more than 1 or 2 comics up a year I started bumping into him around the web.

Usually there’s some increase in money upfront, and some details of salary for the future film(s) agreed in advance. So signing for one movie might get you 100k, but signing on with an option for a sequel (or just more movies with the same studio) gets you 140k and a 15% increase per movie. Studios generally have to…

My wife’s family is from Yemen, and I can’t say that I’ve ever played the game before, so it’s shesh besh to me. For what it’s worth, her father’s native languages are Hebrew and Arabic; neither of which I speak well, but nowadays I think it’s handy that I know both. I’m the odd westerner in an extended family that’s…

It’s a fast mixed with Uber-Sabbath. I can’t really tell you anything that Wikipedia wouldn’t. It’s the only fast that me and my wife observe, and you really don’t do anything at all for a 25 hour period except for sit around, be hungry/thirsty, and (for us) play a lot of shesh besh (backgammon). I’ll generally grab…

91 days until my yearly hell...