Another question…
New to show, Lifetime, etc.

Wow, I had no idea it was that easy to become an architect in this country. It's a little disturbing when you think about it. I may need to start cultivating some prejudices against these hucksters and their flim-flam degree.

I thought it was like seven years, or something.
I just started watching the show (Lifetime). Can anyone tell me how Ted became a full-fledged architect before Marshall finished law school?

Little help?
I haven't seen a 3D movie yet. I'm pretty particular about what I watch, and unfortunately I missed Coraline in theaters.
Is the spectacle worth the general awfulness?

Or as the Indians call it, "maize."

I think the reviewer is way off-base saying that this episode needs Brock; the characters are having to look to themselves for the first time. No more deus ex machina endings for the Venture brothers. This was an amazing episode.

Don't call attention to the faux pas. It simply isn't done.

Don't try to "make it through" the book- it's totally not necessary, since there isn't any structure or narrative worth adhering to. Think of this one as the notes for a book a bit less than half the length. Skip around, enjoy the juicy bits.

Exit, pursued by doubt.

@Tom

Can one be deeply underwhelmed? Wouldn't that be like being deeply superficial? Or maybe because it contains the word "under," you go deeper as the to feeling increases? Just doesn't seem right.

"In the early 1800s there arose in England a fashion for inhaling nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, after it was discovered that its use 'was attended by a highly pleasurable thrilling.' For the next half century it would be the drug of choice for young people. One learned body, the Askesian Society, was for a time…

Bryson did give a few hundred words to the discovery and immediate misuse of laughing gas. And the tragicomic chapter on the triangulation of Venus was worth the price of the book.
However, a view by a literary historian, rather than a mediocre essayist, should be amazing. Going to the library as soon as it stops…

@ Shredder
Actually that's exactly what I meant. Except among nomads and in failed states the world is pretty damn wired.
And good call on UD. Anyone who feels threatened by a book being brought into the conversation can certainly suck a fat one and die.

Wait, was she talking about you?

Hmm. I'll try to answer your question without sounding like a kindle shill.
I used to do a lot of traveling in the 3rd world and I'd always have at least six books with me, even on a one-week trip: two guide books, a phrase book, a dictionary, a couple pleasure books. Took up more space than my clothes.
Since…

Guys, please. Why would anybody think that someone's carrying around a book to impress people, when it so clearly fails to do so?
The Kindle is pretty absurd for people who live within a mile of a library, but it is a godsend for aid workers, deployed soldiers, anyone living out of a suitcase. Just sayin'.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

I when you someone cautiously.

Is a SBC thread becoming a GMF thread? My hours on this website have been worth it.