There's a ton of chicks who would rather go out with roadies than with the band.

8.3

That I don't know. My favorite story about a too-short integer (and who doesn't have a dozen such tales?) is that of the French Ariane rocket launched in '96. They used a 16-bit integer for some value when they needed a couple of bits more, and it overflowed, causing the rocket to veer and self-destruct, and causing…

Since the max number cited is 2^31, this must have been stored as a 32-bit *signed* integer, and the maximum value would really have been (2^31)-1, or 2147483647. After that it would have rolled over to the max negative value. Glad we cleared that up, right?

Reposted A7X is for real, man.

If you want to see walking and more walking, try "Gerry".

This story is suspicious. When you see a painting in a movie, do you think:
a) It's a $10 print that the scenery department pulled from the storeroom
b) It must be the original

Thank goodness I've yet to hear that song this hear. It is one reason why I can't go out in public at this time of year.

Oh, Perry, our love…

It's great. Hopkins has such a great character. I couldn't believe when he hauled Baldwin out of the pit. He's a better man than I. Then he even said nice things about Baldwin at the end. I do doubt, though, that one can actually make fire from ice. Most ice is opaque anyway.

- naked

Is it North by Northwest in which Cary Grant has that great dinner on the train with Eva St. Marie? There is a similar scene in Casino Royale. I can't remember what country that was in. I've never been in a nice dining car like that, but the last time I took the Berlin-Hamburg ICE, I sat alone in the bar car and…

I once checked Amtrak's site to see if I could go from Boise to Denver. It's hilarious:
- Start with a 7.5 hour bus ride to Salt Lake. Yes, the train trip starts with a bus ride.
- Get a taxi to the train station, because Amtrak don't handle transfers, yo.
- Kill 9 hours at the bus station until 3 am.
- Kill another 3…

That is a factor. Euros don't quite comprehend this. I flew a couple of times between Dallas and El Paso. This is about the same distance as Berlin-Paris, and I didn't even leave the state. And there's no train. You can drive if you have a lot of time and a fondness for Midland-Odessa.

The American disdain for trains is because American trains are disdainful. With maybe the exception of the Northeast. Euros often assume that Americans are familiar with trains, but I'd guess less than 20% of Americans have ever been on a train, with good reason.

By the way, has anybody seen "Fateful Findings"? It looks wonderfully bad, and plays periodically at a local theater, but I always miss it.

It was bad in a humorous way, but has boring longueurs. I think it might be better it it were edited down to maybe 40 minutes of the worst parts. The plot, as it were, wouldn't suffer much.

I'm pretty interested, but extremely skeptical. I swore off ghostwritten autobiographies (i.e., almost all autobiographies) long ago, because they're rarely any good.

I thought he was funny, but I also could've done without the puerile Smith humor like the stink palm or the rock penis. I'd totally forgotten about Stan Lee's execrable performance. Fortunately there was just a small Star Wars reference.

Some parts were always painful. Jason Lee was awesome in it. Several other actors were good. Then there were Claire Forlani and Jeremy London, who were both so terrible I was sure their careers must have ended immediately thereafter, but a search of IMDB shows them to still be working. Crazy.