Rey knew her parents weren’t good people. He even tells her to say it out loud. The whole “they are coming back for me.” is her making up a narrative so that she doesn’t feel so alone.
That is her greatest fear, being alone and being unremarkable. Luke’s fear was turning into Vader (hence the dark side cave where he…

I used to routinely call Comcast and tell them to cancel my service until they gave me another 6 month or a year of discounts. My discounts were up two months ago so I called and told them I was canceling. They passed me on to the retention office and that person straight up called my bluff and said, “what day do you…

I mentioned this in another comment, but I thought the same thing. Apparently it is only one section of a much larger National Security spending bill.

I was wondering that too. I mean why would the president need to sign off on what software the military is using. But apparently this is a small part of a much larger National Defense Act spending bill so I would imagine those are people who are interested in military spending.

That is a mech suit! like all of my childhood dreams of having a big robotic mech suit so that I could destroy my enemies coming true mech suit! Put some guns on that thing and get rid of the tether and you’ve got the future!

Came to the comments to say this. I have the ear that apple designed their buds for. They fit snugly and I don’t have to cram them in my head and get that weird stuffy feeling.

My son cries every time I make him do this because he can never get it exactly even so his brother always gets the bigger piece.

I talk to people about how much I use my apple pencil and even people who had one would look at me like I was crazy. I couldn’t figure out why everyone wasn’t grabbing it all the time.

I wonder how many people use it because they think it is correct even though it goes against their normal speak patterns. So you would end up hearing it more in formal setting than in no formal ones.
For me the biggest of these is “I feel badly that these things happened to you” Which is of course wrong, because you…

This is that really weird puce lollipop movie right?

I finally got to the point where I told my kids they can watch pretty much anything (within reason of course) as long as it has a plot. They have to be watching some sort of story. The mindless youtube personality talking about games or opening up toys just seems to rob them of any sort of need to think. At least a TV…

I found my 8 year old watching videos about grown people going to the bathroom because he searched for “potty humor” and that lead him into a very weird place. The boy wanted to watch some fart jokes and found some strange fetish stuff instead. The internet is a scary place.
With that said, we didn’t know he was…

Blue Valkyrie is about to die.

Sounds like my life. Then out of quarters (or tokens depending on how old I was) I would go around pushing in all of the “return” buttons on the games and feeling in all of the coin return slots hoping for a spare token. I think if I were to still find an arcade I would stick tokens in the slot just for kids like me.

I wanted to jump on the “why” bandwagon, but I thought about it, and a comic book reader that had two screens so you could get the full centerfold image would be nice. It would be overkill just to read comics, but would be nice.

I was going to star the Hamlet reference, but my heart says that the Hobbit gets the star. Well played.

I love reading on Kindle. I get angry when school books aren’t digital. But with that said, I read my kids “I am the Cheese” a few months ago and as I held that book I realized that it was the same book that my mother had read to me when I was a kid. Not just the same story, but the same copy of the book. The physical…

Photos of kids really may be the one exception to this. Facebook is the official family photo share platform now. So pictures of kids is a way to keep distant relatives in the loop. It may be best to set up groups on Facebook and only share things to those groups, but with kid photos there is always an aunt or uncle…

What I like about the “no haggle” price isn’t that I get the best deal, but that I know that the next guy doesn’t get a better deal. It isn’t that I don’t want to haggle for prices, I just don’t want to feel like if I had argued a little more I would have gotten a better deal. For me it is the feeling that I am…

So on a tangential subject. Who is more smug people who have gotten rid of cable or people who don’t use Facebook?