That would explain a fair amount, actually

I think this is part of the new batch of Amazon pilots, and that there'll only be a full season if people vote for it enough, since that's how they do their season orders.

Speaking of actually good childhood entertainments, I got to see a Muppet documentary and live q&a with 4 muppeteers earlier this week. It was awesome!

Are the utensils people, though? I'd eat with my fingers too, if that were the case.

A ten year old? I think you're overestimating his emotional maturity. And, I'm sure Trump can read, I just think he probably reads at, say, a 4th-6th grade level. (That is, that his reading abilities are on par with his writing abilities.)

Or maybe he dodges bullets?

I hadn't heard about Drag Race going to VH1. Is Logo still a thing, because it's hard to imagine them without DR at the center of the brand. I suppose they still have 8 seasons of reruns, though?

I used to work in a small lab with one guy who'd talk to himself while typing and curse whenever he had to backspace out of a typo and one guy who needed to always work in *complete silence*. I ended up being the babysitter, keeping things civil between the two.

I always liked Kyle Kinane's routine about how cell phone technology is pretty great these days, but there's always someone who's talking on their phone like they're in a war zone and trying to call in for air support (WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT! DO YOU READ ME?).

I saw the movie, but it wasn't a terribly memorable reason. I think Gus was right and it served some medical purpose. Like, maybe Bane is severely asthmatic? I just remember him sounding very silly, and then Batman also had a ridiculous voice he was doing, and I couldn't take anyone seriously.

Basically, all the national chains suck. But, there are plenty of smaller, local chains or small business pizza places that are great. I sort of consider the kind of pizza that these smaller places do to be a different food than what Pizza Hut or Dominos does. It's like the difference between the tacos from your…

There's actually been a lot of advances with cars - self driving ones, all their new safety features, electric cars. Commercial planes are pretty much self-driving, too (very fly-by-wire, at any rate).

It's an interesting example of a side channel attack, but seems a bit academically interesting than practically.

I think I hear the phrase used derisively more than I hear it used positively. In my mind, it's someone who cares about policy to the point where they lose sight of how things work in the real world. Sort of like how some academics get really far down a rat hole, to the point where there's no longer any practical…

The timing of the buffy segments has confused me a bit - is part of next week buffy week too? Because otherwise, they're going to be short a couple in that segment they were doing where each season's big bad got the spotlight.

Oh, it's just all the shaming parents get these days for the amount of "screen time" their kids get.

She's not quite a year and a half old, and she can already mouth parts of the theme songs for Spongebob and Fraggle Rock (my parents gave us the dvd box set, and we have to hide it from her most of the time). Not sure that reflects terribly well on me as a parent, but she's so cute bopping to the music.

That sounds right.

I can only watch the soapy shows if the characters are well written. I have to believe that the character would react the way they are to the given scenario, no matter how outlandish it is, in order to stay invested and enjoy it. So, I like Buffy and Veronica Mars, because the soapiness is well-grounded. The Flash…

Eh, to each their own. Partially, I just really don't like things that involve parasitic monsters controlling people's brains. I think a Star Trek episode I watched early in life really upset me, and it's just a thing - why I couldn't watch Braindead, even though everyone was talking about how great a show it was.