*infiltrates Seger's home wearing only a dress shirt, socks and tighty-whiteys*

That means…he is made of wood?

Pussy Riot? They gave him a run for his money in the snark department.

Well if it has ALL the memories plus the DNA, it has the makings of a pretty good facsimile. At some point the facsimile becomes good enough to fool friends and family. At another point it becomes indistinguishable in any way from the original you.
If there is nothing supernatural about our consciousness (see the…

Anytime you start to get into moving a mind from one host to another you will get into the same philosophical questions about what 'selfhood' means.

I think Star Trek answers that about as well as you can by copying the neural pattern as well as the subatomic map. Safety measures insure that the original is not destroyed until the copy is successful. But there is still the slight possibility of two copies existing at once which would cause divergence of self. This…

Small steps, like self-driving cars. It starts with some innocuous things like cruise control, automatic parking and collision detection, before long we are all watching season 40 of Survivor on our commute.

It is the same kind of misconception that clones are new versions of you rather than more mundane identical twins.

According to the wiki, the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros have several million people. Size-wise it is probably comparable to England, France and Spain just more stretched out North to South. The political divisions are more like all of medieval Europe, but the square mileage is quite a bit less.

As I remember, Martin does not go into it that much, I would assume similar rates to late medieval Europe, so pretty low. But I think with statues (see S4E1) and probably coins with the likeness of the ruler on them that he would be recognizable to most. You did see what some of the commoners in King's Landing…

What is this? Six Degrees of Bill Murray?

The only thing that picture is missing is Cheech Marin.

Interesting trivia from the movie, playing the kid from the bracketing story is Stephen King's son, the novelist Joe Hill.

"The Crate" is the only segment of Creepshow that holds up for me. Maybe because it scared the fuck out of me as a kid. The meteor one is alright but suffers from Stephen King trying to act. The rest are ok and good trial runs for the more consistently successful Tales from the Crypt.

Tool - AEnema

Though I would prefer King Kong.

Our dummy accounts for training new staff at the library are all Simpsons characters and have been for 20 years now.

I have not been able to merge mine at all. Disqus throws up an error screen when I try. So the result is I have one account that seems to be tied to my work pc and another tied to my home pc. Both Disqus accounts, same user name, same avatar, same email.
The worst part is I don't know how to log into one vs the other,…

Jennifer Saunders helps a lot. The final I Need a Hero montage is pretty great.

So it would be like Pirates of Silicone Valley ending with Google.