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That makes sense, though at the time I thought it was an indication that she had just died, and that newly-dead people would now 'return' rather quickly.

When I first saw a universal remote, I said to myself, "This changes everything."

This is two or three weeks old, but I'm posting it anyway because it was so great: my trivia team finally one first place in Geeks Who Drink trivia a few weeks ago! We're just a three-person team who typically take between second and fourth place while playing against 5 and 6-person teams, so it was pretty exciting. …

Fives have lives, fours have chores, threes have fleas, twos have blues and ones don't get a rhyme because THEY'RE GARBAGE!

Same here :/

What do you call it when Batman leaves church early?

Oh that sounds fun. I've forgotten most of the poems and passages I memorized in college; I should brush up on those again.

I haven't made any progress on this book since last week, but I forgot to mention it then: Geek Heresy, a nonfiction book by a (former?) Microsoft employee about how technology is often over-hyped as the solution to all the world's ills while less sexy factors of success for social projects, like long-term buy-in from…

I didn't think Eleanor & Park was as good as Rainbow Rowell's first book, Attachments. One of the best lighthearted romances I've read in a long time, and it's not even YA (as much as I love YA, sometimes it's nice to read a cute, non-serious story that's still geared to adults).

Yes! I had to check IMDb to realize she played Mary Boleyn in Wolf Hall. Very different role, but she was great in that too. Has she been in anything else worth watching?

On vacation in South Carolina, I read Shutter Island, which was somewhat disappointing to me—it was pretty obvious early on what direction the story was going to go. I more enjoyed starting Daniel Levitin's The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (which I have an idea someone here…

Though I always feel like my opinions on that book are unsophisticated, it's hard to get behind Fanny as a heroine or their relationship when you're used to P&P and S&S—Edmund is really kind of unbearable—but as a movie, I agree that that version is pretty great. I've been in love with Jonny Lee Miller since I first…

Jane Austen! Specifically the 2008 TV miniseries of Sense and Sensibility. I've seen the Emma Thompson version so many times it's ingrained in my memory, but this was a refreshing change and I enjoyed seeing Dan Stevens as Edward. Marianne was just adorable too.

That poem always annoys me, not only because of the widespread misinterpretation of it, but because of a very specific misinterpretation that occurred when I was playing in my high school's quiz bowl team and the question was, "In Robert Frost's poem beginning 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,' which road did the…

My absolute favorite bit was the sister's bashful reaction to the cop asking for a round of applause for her in recognition of her completely minimal warning of the sword-wielder. And of course, Christopher Meloni with his arms wrapped around her, because secondary characters are mandated to couple up at the end of a…

"Why do we even HAVE that lever?"

Agreed! It's so easy for false beliefs to cement in people's minds—it's fun to consider a parallel universe theory, but really, just admit you're wrong and move on.

…Is not spelling 'chartreuse' with a capital C proof of the Mandela Effect too?

Why is this not a gimmick account?