I like that idea - Ron being the laid-back house-husband, and Hermione going out and being the world's best research wizard or something like that.

That list is actually quite interesting. If you plot a histogram by year for the whole 200 item list (inflation adjusted values), there's a clear trend of more high grossing movies with time. But if you skim off the top 100, the list becomes a lot flatter. (with a dip in the late 1980s). The top 100 and top 50 movie…

Your last two lines sum it up, I think. I also loved the dungeons, and I personally quite liked the motion control, which felt natural in a way that the tacked on TP ones didn't. Some of the design of the worlds was also very atmospheric. I didn't mind the material collecting and upgrading for the most part.

It was the puns that attracted me as an adolescent - I definitely wasn't in it for naked girls. Then the weird creepy little-boy looking up girls' skirts attitudes towards sex and young women and the long and self-congratulatory author's notes got too much, and I abandoned it.

The combination of butter and marmite on toast reminds me somewhat of sharp, funky cheese. And marmite is a lot more legal to stash in my luggage than the cheese is.

I actually think "it's too expensive" is a perfectly reasonable argument. If it would cost more money to create new versions than they would get back in profits, it would be a bad business decision to go ahead. It might make sense if it were part of some longer game plan - as marketing for the new series, for…

I use a combination of Ripit (a cheap Mac program) and Handbrake. Ripit for ripping the discs and breaking the DRM (and saving it in a high resolution format), Handbrake to convert it to whatever I want. If you just want the end product, Handbrake is enough.

Yes.

Given the enthusiasm with which copies were passed around when I was in late elementary school, I'd say it qualifies based on books children liked to read, if not ones recommended by adults.

I've developed a fondness for Pizza Hut's takoyaki pizza, which involves Asian mayonnaise (not Kewpie, but the Taiwanese equivalent), along with octopus and fish flakes.

The Herr chips are a pale imitation of the real thing.

Fresh squeezed orange juice is fantastic, and tastes nothing like what you buy in the store. In winter, we get orange juice trucks - a guy with a flatbed full of oranges, and a juicer, bottles and a funnel.

I find that the good stuff can be really good, but there are certain things that will put me right off.

Interesting - that's pretty much the same thing I heard from a friend who met him on one of his "meet the scientist" visits.

You'd need the regular cast to include a forensic specialist with a PhD, a relentlessly cheerful receptionist, a narcoleptic boss, a recurring criminal with chronic hayfever and a very shy rookie cop.

I loved his books as a kid - the McDonald Hall books, Bugs Potter, I Want to Go Home, No Coins Please. The last ones I read were around Son of Interflux and Don't Care High, when I was aging out of the demographic he wrote for. I was also kind of disappointed that he was moving away from Canadian settings, which were…

Can't resist the lure of scientific classification……

I played both on the Wii and found Skyward Sword's controls much more satisfying.

An undergrad in astrophysics in not particularly employable in astrophysics - there are some jobs as observatory support staff (non research), maybe at a museum, but you generally need a PhD to get a research related job. So someone with a BSc would likely be looking for tech/industry/teaching positions, not related…

I still like album notes - I regularly buy stuff where the lyrics (and translations thereof) are not available online at all (early music mainly). Even for operas, buying a libretto with translation separately can add a lot to the cost. I also like the higher sound quality of CDs.