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This came out the same year as The Day After and also freaked me out a good bit:
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“Donnie Yen’s character is a blind badass who believes in the Force; he dies flipping a single switch. Defector and erstwhile Imperial pilot Bodhi Rook is blown up while plugging in some kind of data cable.”
The io9 reviewer was one of the people complaining.
Oh joy, spoilers in the headline again...
The audition process can’t all that selective, considering I got accepted back in the day. Still convinced it’s because I sang a show tune rather than a pop song.
The new canonical book “Aftermath” takes place (or begins) several months after RotJ. There is a sequel “Aftermath: Life’s Debt” that was just released, to be followed by the third book of the trilogy.
I found (the hard way) that Tecnu, which is a poison ivy wash, works with hot peppers as well. I guess the same thing that gets the urishiol to bond to it and wash off with cold water also works with capsicum oils.
Beginning in the mid 19th century (although the practice is far older) manganese was commonly used as a way to “decolor” glass, making greenish tinted glass clear. This ended around 1915, due to the First World War among other factors. Purple/amethyst glass is thus a highly diagnostic artifact for archaeologists who…
Most of the replies were very complimentary of his curiosity and interest, with offers to help him learn more. That’s why this interview is so weird and pretty insulting.
You realize that one of the “big hitters” who came out against the kid is a so-called savant who got his start in Maya archaeology at the age of 12 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship/Genius grant at age 18.
The rebuttal was that his archaeoastronomy theory (which is flawed to begin with, using Western constellations and not taking into account time drift) has been tested and disproven in the past by many Maya scholars. There’s also the fact that the cities on his “star map” were built over millenia, many were not…
Teotihuacan was built by the Teoihuacanos. They were not Maya, and in fact had a strong influence on Classic Maya culture and politics, including warfare and installing rulers in some Maya city-states.
David Stuart is one of the most prominent Mayanists there is these days, so not at all obscure in relation to the topic at hand.
His opener on “Clap Your Hands” is peak, quintessential Phife (c/p from Genius):
Always loved that Testaverde reference, and it became oddly funnier when Testaverde had that crazy game where he set the single game record for completion percentage. Like Phife motivated him or something.