Casting an extremely attractive adult woman as a young boy—what the heck, NBC?

Sears's Tower!

A quibble: she is actually on the skeptical side, since she's going against the conventional wisdom.

I only remember the German class version.

It's been established that he was at the doctor's.

One problem with "Where Eagles Dare", which is shared by a lot of films, is that we are supposed to believe that Clint Eastwood and the others can speak German well enough to pass as natives, which is basically impossible. And it's even weirder when he's speaking English.

It's just weird. Do they do this in other countries? Do Italian movies which take place in Hamburg have Germans speaking Italian with a German accent?

There are orbits around black holes that spiral in, but there are also stable orbits that don't. But a conventional spacecraft would never be able to get in/out of such a gravity well.

I'd assume there are many people who don't like Clarke, namely because he can't write. Last year I gave him one last chance and read half of "Fountains of Paradise." It is objectively horrible.

The cash is a nice touch, because it covers most of the taxes on the total $150K value, but probably not all. Also, I'd like to point out that the term "orbit" is not valid, this is barely space, etc. I really don't think this thing is going to catch on. If you want to experience free fall, you get much better deal…

70s-era Woz was not fat and nerdy-looking. Just because he's fat now doesn't mean he was then. Would I cast a corpulent dude to play 1987 Val Kilmer? No, that wouldn't make sense.
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Probably "Der Tunnel". It was pretty good. It sounds a lot like like this description, except this new film apparently deals with a bunch of idiots trying to escape into East Berlin. I think it's going to be a slapstick comedy starring Abbot, Costello, and Schultze.

Well, the whole discussion was about why men are paid more. So either chem doesn't pay as much or the number of chem graduates is less than the number of engineers. I don't know; I'm starting to think this is just all about women having a different set of priorities. If I'd been trying to maximize my income, I…

Well, fine, then the fact that there are few women in engineering should be increasing their incomes then.

Well, OK. But if I can offer some advice to the ladies out there: if you want to get paid above average, go get a bachelor's in engineering. Companies will want to hire you. It's a good career.

I don't know if there is a biological component or not. It's hard to sort that out. I'm not sure if paid leave is a factor. I studied some engineering in Germany, which has very generous leave policies, and the numbers of female students was miniscule.

I've never tried to discourage any women from studying tech. I don't think I'm responsible for the dearth of women in my field.

That may be. I'm just saying that everywhere I work, it's all men. Maybe there's some bio lab where it's 5% men and 95% women.

I don't have any vested interest in women not studying tech. And the people with the most opportunity to teach girls that math might be useful are mothers. Mothers could be teaching their daughters chemistry, but are not.

That's sort of a separate argument, but I'm not sure it's valid. When I talk to young women, they tend to say things like, "I don't want to work in a cube," "I don't want to work with people, not computers," "I want to work for a nonprofit and change the world," "I despise math." Several of the few female engineers…