If I could do it over again, I would've graduated high school at 16, enrolled in a two-year trade school (e.g., industrial instrumentation), and had a great job by 18 with strong growth potential, and between hitting the ground running in a good field + no debt + investing early, rocketed past most college grads in…

Hah, I watched Dirty Work for the first time last week. Rickles' scene is my favorite — the way he insulted Norm caught me off-guard.

The problem with statist "liberalism" and terrible economic policies (e.g., Central Banks printing money like crazy) is not the immediate results, bad as they are, but the inevitable reactionary movements from justifiably angry populations. (See Nazism following the Weimar hyperinflation + Great Depression.)

Clinton is untrustworthy, duplicitous, and a perfect manifestation of everything wrong with insider politics. I absolutely understand why people intensely dislike her.

Gorilla, you're a desperado.

"Two Scoops of Murder" sounds like an episode of Police Squad!

Now that I'm older, I absolutely love the acoustic version of "Born to Run" from '88. The intro is haunting, and really makes you think about what happened to those characters: "In the end, individual freedom — when it's not connected to some sort of community or friends or the world outside — ends up feeling pretty…

I've been around long enough, moved around plenty, and have a pretty unconventional career, so "Tangled Up in Blue" has become my favorite Dylan song. I've even worked in the great north woods, just not as a cook…

Holy shit, that's well said. I'm going to rewatch the diner scene from Thief again — probably the best encapsulation of that idea.

"The older you get, the more it means." (From his introduction to "This Hard Land," the final song played during the Wrecking Ball tour.)

"Check your lease, man, because you're living in **** City!"

The McDonald's in Biggs Junction — the small Oregon town across the Columbia from Maryhill, WA — has a photo of the Stonehenge replica on the wall. When I stopped there for coffee, a gentleman standing in line saw me staring at the picture and said, "You can see it right out the window if you look closely." So I took…

Yeah, Bruce has pockets of fans scattered around the West. Phoenix of all places has a huge fan base dating from the early days: http://www.phoenixnewtimes….

That's a really good point. As much as we remember the call backs, classic AD has plenty of in-the-moment humor and brilliant timing. Like GOB's "C'mon!" when talking about his expensive suits — no deep call-back, just perfect set-up and editing.

Season 4 is like someone left AD on the counter for a week and you decide to have a bite: it kinda, maybe, has some of the original taste, but it's mostly gross and moldy.

Back in seventh grade, I used some editing program on the family computer to make it look like the infamous "Science Guy Bill Nye Killed In Massive Vinegar/Baking-Soda Explosion" article from The Onion look like it was from NBCnews.com, complete with fake URLs.

One of my friends told me that the launch arcos could really blast off into space. For years, I assumed it was one of those bullshit "my uncle works for Nintendo!!1" stories, but yep, you can trigger an exodus: http://www.sc3000.com/sc200…

I ruined Zeus for myself by reading a GeoCities-ish website about how to optimize your workers' patrol routes. After that, I couldn't bring myself to build cool-looking but inefficient cities — I standardized everything once I learned how everything works.

Best parts of SimCity 2000:

I wouldn't hold my breath — I'm still waiting on a decent movie about Alexander the Great. But yeah, the Anabasis is a fantastic story, and I'm surprised the exploits of Xenophon and company aren't as well-known as say Marathon or Thermopylae.