They never said his name—for all we know it was some other bald guy with a Persian cat!

“Quantum” means “a little bit” so it actually is a pretty cool title if you’re literate.

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They’re an excellent robot lubricant.

As someone who grew up in a trilingual household where Greek was one of the languages, I love both the weird gamma sounds—both the one you describe and the one I have no idea of how to spell out but the IPA lists as ɣ.

I, for one, am glad crap pizza is associated with a crap city.

Not only that, but Berman’s responsible for Worf and the Klingons on DS9! That alone makes him pretty important for the show.

That’s true, but in defense of the “western, European vision of the future” the virtues of the Enlightenment are really one of the few universal value systems out there that’s pretty much open to anyone. It’s something you can adopt and make your own, has a long tradition of tolerance and ecumenicism (grounded in the…

I just started watching the show and I’m impressed. Of course, the only role I can recall seeing Park in before was in the new Hawaii Five-O, so I’m almost definitely grading on a subconscious curve.

“The Outcast” is to gay rights as “Angel One” is to feminism.

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I think Larry King might have been the best Geoff Peterson guest voice.

20 million books typed out randomly by twenty billion monkeys working for 20 trillion years

Probably Thoth

He really was. He mistook a sample of limestone as an igneous rock and said made that one of the cornerstones of his work.
(Just to clarify I’m talking about Alexander Agassiz, not Louis or one of the others.)

The scanning-the-whole-thing aspect’s really convenient for me. I’ve actually used it on books I own or have borrowed where I’m looking for something not indexed (you can often search the book and it will return a snippet saying what page it’s on).

You can also read all of Agassiz’s really wrong thoughts on atoll geography!

Remember the Drake photoshop contest? Let’s bring that back along with the caption contest.

As Kubrick demonstrated, there’s nothing funnier than nuclear holocaust.

For us it was a literature class thing, but optional and after school so only kids who were actually interested in it would come. It was awesome.