Vector graphics were a really ingenious way to render smooth lines when RAM was too expensive to store complete rasterized video frames. I could never figure out why Asteroids wasn't pixellated until I read up on the technical details. It reminds me of the old x-y plotters which used to pick up little pens with…

I do, my German butterfly!

Joan Chandler was great in this, playing the WASPy fiancee. I can't believe she was in nothing of note after this. Maybe if she'd been a blonde Hitch might have used her more.

Let's not overlook your Failure to capitalize Nouns!

Sorry everybody's so mean today. These play adaptations aren't for everybody.

Why are we ridiculing the idea that appearance is correlated with personality? Just because we want it to be true? A recent study shows a correlation between wide male faces and certain personality traits. It's not conclusive, but the idea that high levels of testosterone might affect both bone structure and…

So many expensive computers and animators, so much potential… Can't they make an animated film with some sense of gravitas, free from modern references, inside jokes, and pop music?

I'm no lawyer, so I don't know, but can't a civil suit still be filed? Maybe not.

My new Apple monitor is crispy.

Is it true there's nothing at all to gain? There has been at least one settlement already. To reiterate, though, I'm making no statement about the veracity of the accusers' stories. I'm just saying my skepticism, even of large numbers of accusers, was increased by the Pepsi case.

I'm not saying that this is the case here, but I used to believe the same thing until the Pepsi syringe fraud. Remember this? Over a hundred people found syringes and other items in Pepsi cans over the course of a few days. Pepsi tried to say they were all lying, even though the evidence seemed overwhelming. In…

Yes, that certainly seems relevant. It's not unlikely that one or more of the accusers are fraudsters, and they hurt the credibility of the non-fraudsters, confusing everything.

I spent several weeks on matrix algebra. That actually turned out to be worth the money.

Filmmakers have no concept about genius at all. It's really more about years of hard (mental) work, but they seem to think it's just brief flashes of inspiration.

If you are in orbit/freefall, it doesn't matter how intense the gravity is. What would tear you apart would be the tidal forces, the gravity differential across the distance of your body. The bigger the black hole, the smaller the tidal force will be. I don't know the numbers in this case, or how close the orbit…

That dude seriously needs an editor. That book needed to be chopped down to about half its size and now I learn that he added 400 pages? This isn't high school English where the more words, the better.

Pitch Perfect 2: Acoustic Boogaloo

Backup dancers in chicken suits, a Pee-Wee-style playhouse, and 80s awesomeness: Breakfast Club, circa 1987:

That was my thought. There was no real reason Michael Caine had to be American. I don't know why you would take an actor renowned for his voice and have to do a bad accent. Has the director never stepped foot in America?

"skeptic: a person who questions or doubts something (such as a claim or statement) : a person who often questions or doubts things"