When there is, people can somehow manage to completely miss the fact that the most of the characters aren't white. Take Ursula le Guin's Earthsea series, where almost everyone is some shade of brown.

I think you could make a good Bond-type spy movie with a gay or female (or both!) main character, and it would be a lot of fun to watch. It would be a great opening - start with a Bond-like scene with a couple in bed and some post-coital repartee, and then the woman gets up, leaving stud-man in the bed, to go off and…

I think a big difference is whether you're making enough on paid jobs to be secure financially, so that you can afford to do stuff for fun as a hobby.

I find Bend Her much more palatable (and funny) than the dreadful Neutopia, which I can't bring myself to watch.

It's the Hamster Dance!

I met him! I saw him live as a kid, and we got an autographed record. [A record is sort of like a CD, but a lot bigger and black, for all the kiddies out there].

Have you read Zia, the sequel to Island of the Blue Dolphins? I find it puts a rather melancholy take on Karana's rescue (as does the true events it is based on). Her tribe is dispersed and gone, there is no-one who speaks her language, and she dies within weeks of being rescued.

Definitely!

How about a live action Rocket Robin Hood reboot?

My personal idea of hell is being shut up in a room full of teenagers for six hours a day. And in the university system, 'teacher's training' is essentially non-existent - you reach a point where teaching is expected, you get assigned a class and told not to spend too much time and effort on teaching duties or you…

What about something like Teach for America? That seems to only need a bachelors' degree with a minimum GPA and US permanent residency.

Uploading to arXiv is standard in the physical sciences, and has the advantage of being accessible outside of journal paywalls. In my area of research, uploading before being accepted to a peer reviewed journal (let along submitted) might be looked at sideways. If it's not peer reviewed, it doesn't generally count…

If you watch the clock with the music playing, it's playing at almost exactly 1 bar per second.

Saw it too. I didn't hate it quite as vehemently, but I also didn't have particularly high expectations going in.

The problem isn't the option of pink and girly It's the difficulty of finding non pink and girly.

I have a soft spot for Sheridan and Delenn's relationship. It always struck me as a mature relationship - as in a romantic relationship between fully adult people who mostly have their shit together. Not so much red hot passion and sturm und drang, but rather a balanced mix of affection, respect, friendship, support,…

Seriously?

That was always one of the appeals for me. A modest investment in books, a bagful of dice, and you were good to go. They really tried to push the whole paint-your-own miniatures, fancy terrain tiles aspect in later editions, but even though I can now afford the bells and whistles, I'm still quite happy with making…

Roll a fortitude save please.

Sheridan et al. were in a similar position to Byron at the start - they saw injustices and had to do something about it. But they approached it with a certain level of competence and strategy, and they were committed to seeing it through and dealing with the consequences over the long term, even when they were messy.