has no one said it yet? do i get to say it?
I AM NATURE'S GREATEST MIRACLE!!

i will hear no besmirching of the title "burns verkaufen der kraftwerk." it's genius. well, maybe not genius, but it's damn funny.

the top that Gretchen made had the exact same cut that the judges found offensively unflattering on the very first episode from the girl they booted off.

3 things
1) so sorry to say it, Casanova, but you're right: you *have* gotten fat. how is that even possible in the tight production schedule of this show?

i'm so embarrassed that i talked about sickle-cell anemia as a virus. i meant to say "diseases." yikes.

That "each has two wins" line from our beloved Casa-no-clue adds a lot more weight to the hypothesis that he's just been playing dumb as a strategy. Perhaps not in a super calculated way… we probably all knew people in high school who did this as a way to charm and disarm their potential enemies. When he said that,…

I can't remember exactly, but I think Mondo did participate in a little of the catiness. In a quiet way, of course.

meh.
meh!

minor quibble with a great episode
The one thing that bothers me about Defector is how it jumps directly from Data saying they know almost nothing about Romulus to Data programming a perfect holodeck facsimile of a particular Romulan location. There are some circuitous ways to explain around this, but it always kinda…

there are plenty of naturally occurring viruses that certain races are much more susceptible to than others are (sickle cell anemia springs to mind as one example). i see no reason that it would be particularly challenging for 23rd/24th century technology to engineer an even more focused biological weapon.

GAHHH
I love Wilson's straight-up academic work ("The Superorganism" is awesome), and I really want to be into this book. But here I am, 80 pages in, and going crazy. How can anyone possibly care about this narrative? In addition to being overfull of truly useless, boring detail, it's written in a most…

oh, yeah, i forgot he was in the mist… he was not bad in that! but in the hung pilot, it seemed like a high-school level performance, just relying on tired stereotypes, like a privileged intellectual type putting on some kind of blue-collar affectation, which felt totally wrong for his character.

question for "hung" watchers…
i just watched the first episode, and i could not believe what a terrible acting job Tom Jane was doing. does he get better?

wouldn't it be interesting if…
so, we've all remarked on how V's weird, variable effects are a huge crutch, and now it seems like everyone in town is taking it.

Your Mom, i think you mean to say that MALE homosexuality is different.

i feel so in the loop.
just this morning, AT&T's customer support automated bullshit voice insisted on telling me about this situation (at length, eating into my cell minutes) before letting me say i needed help reporting my defective DSL modem.

learning things is fun!!
i had similarly never noticed that bumper sticker (despite repeated viewings), and i love it. thanks very much for pointing that out!

i think i may be the only person in the world who loves buffy and dollhouse but doesn't like firefly.

more attempts to bring objectivity to the subjective…
last week i endorsed an A- rather than an A (or A+) with the rationale that the episode made me *think* about calling up my non-futurama-fan friend to tell him to watch it, but ultimately i chose not to. i just proceeded to watch it again myself.

we were explicitly shown sookie inviting bill in last week. maybe because she's family her invitation counts.