His wife (ex, I think?) has been pretty much the public face of the North American anti-vaxxer movement for a decade or more. In totally unrelated news, she's a moron.

Asians, in particular Koreans and certain areas of China, still eat dog to this day. I know because I've eaten it there. Tasted like shit.

I was totally underwhelmed by Nemo. The main thing that annoyed me, I guess, was how completely episodic it was - there are just a sequence of largely unconnected setpieces.

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus UNNECESSARY APOSTROPHE'S!

Young kids play with themselves all the time. They usually lose interest in it after a few years, then it returns with a vengeance at puberty.

Samson was a fucking moron. "Hey, what's the secret to your strength?" "Oh, it's X" (where X is a lie because he's totally savvy and doesn't want to tell her the truth about his flowing locks). The next morning, he wakes up and X has been removed/broken/whatever.

The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, by Desmond Seward. Only book I've read on the topic, and it was bloody fascinating (emphasis on the bloody). He's not a fan of Henry IV.

I find he's a great airport read. I've read… the large majority of anything he's ever published in any form, but aside from Sandman and Miracleman I barely remember most of it. But I know if I pick up a paperback I'll spend a few hours pleasantly diverted by someone who can turn a phrase and create a nice world.

I wonder if anyone has ever written an opinion piece on about comedy on some website where they talk about that.

Can't you make perfume out of whale feces? Ambergris or something?

@bcfred:disqus they were actually being pretty smart, I think. They obviously didn't want me going to the cops, which likely wouldn't have caused any problems for them but no point in stirring up possible trouble. So by leaving me enough to get by on for a few days, they greatly reduced their chances of getting caught…

@bcfred:disqus Honestly, I had so little money that the robbers left me with some of my traveller's cheques. They did take my cool-ass belt, though, which I still get annoyed about to this day.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus What are you talking about? A hammer is a special tool!

First of all "that other guy raped her before me" is not a good legal defence. Second of all, sure, most people aren't aware that Google or whoever collects their metadata, but they should be, and in most cases they signed contracts that explicitly allow this, which they very much did not do with the US government…

Yes, but they're getting very good at it. It's an engineering problem, and a solvable one.

Ugh…  Finding Forrester actually made me pretty angry. So frigging patronizing, and such an entirely wrong portrayal of genius.

It's big, fun, and kind of dumb. But it's a good big, fun, and kind of dumb. Very well done and doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. The Conversation, on the other hand, is apparently, as you say, a real artistic achievement. So… I definitely wouldn't compare the two too much.

Yeah, it's a sketchy fucking place. And La Ceiba is just about the sketchiest part. Beautiful, and very cheap, though.

Well, people who walk around sketchy areas of town with big signs saying "Rob Me" don't exactly deserve to be robbed at knifepoint, but I'm not going to pretend I didn't have some agency there…

Watch 6 Degrees of Separation. He's a fine actor, he just has no interest in acting if it gets in the way of making millions of dollars. Which, well, more power to him, I guess.