Nice try. If that video were real, I'd see stars in the background.

The momentum of two people is conserved. Thrusting is not going to send people bouncing into walls. If you are floating in the middle of the space station, and punch the air with your arm, are you going to shoot backward into the wall? No. That's not how it works. Space-sex is not really that difficult.

I'm not sure I feel it was a good use of my time.

I actually did go see this in the theater yesterday. What I was trying to say before was that I thought the film focused more on his personality and interactions than on actual codebreaking, which was true. It was better than I had anticipated, though.

It's supposed to go in collap's.

That hoax was so dumb. I took one look at the footage of that balloon and knew there was no boy in there. The thing was like 7' tall. Does a balloon 7' tall displace air with mass greater than a boy's? No. There is a reason people-carrying balloons are enormous. It's not just just for looks.

They've been doing it forever. People who are book-smart can't find their glasses (they're on their head!), smart girls are ditzy, etc.

I have no interest in the movie because from what I've read, the movie makes little attempt do explain what Turing did, which is what I'm interested in. I'm less interested in how gay he was. It didn't help him decrypt messages.

I'm not a biologist, but the science was so bad. I loved the stuff they could see in their microscopes. "Check out this 15 nm virus!" Not only could you not see such a thing in a microscope, but viruses don't look like wriggling nematodes. And they could see DNA. Like individual nucleotides and stuff.

Well, sure, if you're going to put it that way, it makes no sense.

Alan: If you're going to Starbucks I'm coming with you. End of story. Those are my coffees in there.

They were all hiding in level Z. That's below secret level X and even below the secret bunker beneath level X.

The one thing I do well is scoring.

He reminded me a bit of Sark on "Alias", although that was a better character on a better (yet stupid) show.

At first I had the idea they were in Antarctica, because they kept talking about there being no laws there. But Canada? They have laws. It's not some sort of anarchy with no police.

That's what I wondered. Not like there was anywhere for Alan to hide. Just go back and scythe him.

That was such a lame plot device. You can use an Iridium phone from anywhere in the world. Literally anywhere, any time. (Well, anywhere outdoors, at least.) Everybody at remote outposts has these now. You don't need a 20' dish to make a call anymore, unless you're calling Voyager. Plus, Jeri Ryan's magic…

It's going to take a while.

The article says he was in his fifties when he appeared on television. I think Benny would disagree.

I knew a guy who spent a year or two writing his thesis on this movie and a whole little genre of Italian Nazisploitation porn that it catalyzed. Glad I don't have that on my resume. That would make for some odd interviews.