Bollocks.

stay tuned everyone

The way people in the first three movies speak of the Jedi has always seemed strange to me, as if they were some myth from 2000 years ago. Luke is what, 18-20 years old? There were tons of Jedi just 18 years ago, all over the galaxy! It’s like if we collected Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer and Boyz II Men CDs and posters and…

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Ashley Madison should get credit for passing the Turing Test.

The politically incorrect asshole inside is screaming “Magnegro”.

I’m inclined to listen to these objections, just because the extremity of Ms. Newitz conclusions is so counterintuitive. I can fully accept that men vastly outnumbered women on the site, and that a huge number of women’s profiles were faked, and certainly that the owners of the site were crooks, but I find it hard to…

Probably the only rub that was had.

Buying a home has a nonzero chance of accumulating (or at least retaining) value over time. Rental housing has ZERO chance of ever giving you any return on investment whatsoever. It’s just a black hole that you shovel money into and never see a dime of again. And, oh yeah, rents keep going up.

Black Widow + Cap vs Winter Soldier stands out in my mind. Sure, there’s been some great martial arts films over the years, but for straight up fist fight with a little bit of tech thrown in...it’s so damn fun.

I wasn’t ready for this at all. This rant really came out of left field.

Based on my own experience, people are terrible at estimating another persons height even when they are standing right next to each other. I’ve had people guess that I was only an inch taller then them when I was actually three inches taller.