But Fido is done. The Walking Dead is still a living show.

Wow. You are amazingly shallow.

Do you know the difference between "patriotic" and "jingoistic"? Look them up. Fox News is the latter, and anyone who supports them is, too.

Very noble, fighting other people's battles for them. Wearing your underwear on the outside has gone to your head.

I always heard that, too, but it's got to be more complex than that. I've noticed a few things over the years: trees that are near (or in) wetlands tend to go first; trees in mostly piney woods where the soil is acidic tend to have predominantly yellow leaves; trees where it's mostly deciduous run the gamut of yellow…

I know a guy in the photography unit in the Navy who was issued an old bellows camera. The kind you put on a tripod. This was in 1994. It's kind of amazing the armed forces can get anything done at all.

I haven't called you a single name. Go look, I'll wait.

If you say so, Aunt Gert.

It's weird here in New Hampshire this year. Some trees have gone early and are already bare while others are still mostly green. Oak trees always lag behind maples and elms, but I have one oak that's already changed over while a couple others are half-and-half, yet the maples are in mid-change.

I am not a hockey fan, but I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Everyone brought their A game, and Liev Schreiber was brilliant as usual.

If you say so. I guess I'll take one for the team.

You really are as dumb as a box of rocks, aren't you? Sorry, that's an insult to boxes of rocks. You really are as dumb as a Fox News panel, aren't you?

Ah, nicely done. I love the flexibility of the English language.

Thanks, kid! I'm old enough to be your dad and I've been on the internet since before the Web existed, but I appreciate the warm welcome! You're a stand-up guy!

I was riffing off of this stupid line of reasoning by the flight attendants:

This is true; a book by Stephen King or Brandon Sanderson could be used to take out a flight crew. Providing you have the upper body strength to swing it. Same goes for a toddler.

Me on every flight:

I used to work with guys who were coffee aficionados and the day they drank Turkish coffee they looked like this.

Is it even possible to be "out of range of a Starbucks"? I was in the Australian outback last year and someone was selling Starbucks coffee in the middle of nowhere. No flush toilets anywhere, but they had Starbucks.

I'm not getting worked up. You, however, very clearly are.