I always told myself that the Hayden Christensen-era LCD displays were replaced by monochrome CRT's a few decades later because the Empire got all the Republic's high-tech manufacturing and the Rebellion had to make do with scrap and jury rigging and improvised fabrication. I guess an Apple II monitor is easier to…

Never has elation been so quickly crushed by disappointment.

Well whad you expect in an opera, a happy ending?

They know who belongs in med school and who belongs in the janitors' union, yet they don't care who's a doctor and who's a janitor? I'm lost.

They're great but not Frond-and-Gayle great. Gayle's brain is just the right kind of broken to respond to Frond's blend of blisteringly obvious common sense and touchy-feely self-empowering gibberish, and Frond is just the right kind of needy to benefit from an emotional barnacle like Gayle.

Frond and Gayle are meant to be more than any other pairing on the show. Maybe Bob and the meat-counter guy.

I've never had the sense that he cares what his students will grow up to do, as long as they talk about their feelings while doing it.

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Is that 250 calories per bag or per serving? Backpacking entrees claim to "serve 2," which is an outright lie. One bag is usually an adequate dinner, supplemented with gorp and granola bars, but their serving sizes are assuming 1) you're having side dishes too, and 2) you're not carrying a big-ass backpack uphill…

Part of me really wants to thru-hike the Continental Divide Trail (longer and more difficult than the AT or PCT, but through wilder terrain and without the crowds). A smarter part of me knows that I go backpacking to see/find cool stuff no one else knows about and enjoy myself, and loathes the idea of treating a hike…

I never went for the super-expensive freeze-dried stuff. I bring Knorr or similar pasta/rice meals in a bag from the supermarket (if you can find it, Modern Table Meals southwest red lentil rotini is the best thing I've ever put in my bearproof canister), which involves more cooking and cleanup but saves a lot of…

I'm pretty sure the Air and Space Museum introduced it to the masses. It wound up in their gift shop in the first place because it's actually totally unsuitable for astronauts; you can't eat it in zero gravity without micro-crumbs floating everywhere and gunking up the life support.

Hmm, I must have been in high school at the time because shortly after seeing TPM, I was volunteering as cut-rate leadership on the archery range at Cub Scout day camp. I made a Jar Jar mockup out of a balloon and offered some small prize to any Cub Scout who could jam an arrow up his face. I probably did it out of…

On my thesis project in grad school, one of my undergraduate lackeys (I think she'd recently turned 21) had Jar Jar's "exsqueeze me" as her text message alert. She defended it vigorously and described Jar Jar as "adorable." So there's at least one genuinely smart 20-something out there that actually likes Jar Jar.

Wait, there was a USDA pyramid with protein at the base? Back in my day the base was white bread and potatoes, with meat and dairy just below Fudgesicles.

Did young Bruce Campbell ever stump for the full-body version of the Nintendo Power Glove? I look at his vest and that's all I can see.

That makes a lot of sense, actually.

I ASSUME SPOILER WARNINGS ARE REDUNDANT AT THIS POINT IN THE COMMENTS BUT THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE

Speed = distance / time. If you're bragging about your ship's speed, as Han was, you give a distance (Kessel Run) and a time (12 parsecs), not a ratio of distances. If you're bragging up your skill as a pilot/navigator, the distance ratio works. Han was bragging about speed.

22 songs about Jesus that even a heathen could love?