I found a really neat trick for chilling cans quickly: Lay the can down flat in some ice & spin it. The can will quickly melt a furrow in the ice and cool off to a pretty significant amount after about four or five minutes of spinning. 

That scene’s on at least one of the DVD releases. You can see Brett basically half alien egg-ized, and Cpt. Dallas weakly muttering to Ripley when she encounters them. It’s a chilling scene, but you don’t really know what’s going on.

I’d argue that the Assembly Cut turns Alien 3 into a pretty good Alien movie. Several of the chopped subplots are restored, which makes the overall story much less nonsensical. The opening scene pulls absolutely no punches, showing us what happened to Hicks & Newt in grisley detail. We get more time with Ripley and…

Well, technically.

I would’ve watched it, but this clip explicitly stated that it was not for the likes of me.

I look forward to his performance as a mincing asshole wookie when I catch this movie on Netflix, roughly a year after it has left theaters.

Touch the monkey! Love the monkey!

It’s 15:00 on Sonntag, vich means it’s now time for Kraftwerk feat. Shpeak Und Shpell!

“... in southern China, where (per Wikipedia here), the population is largely poorly educated and prone to superstition.” 

It’s her own fault. She should’ve worn the perm.

Eh, I give it a C+.

Aww, I love these two dead assholes. 

I think you can still ship lithium ion batteries by air, but there are size restrictions, and they have to be installed in a device. (You can’t ship loose li-ion batteries in a plane, and risk them short-circuiting.) If these things can’t be air freighted, I wonder if they’re allowed on passenger flights. If not,…

My cat once gifted me an entire, sealed bag of bagels. Lord only knows where she got it from or how she managed to drag it home, but I never forgot her generosity.

Nevermind, they posted that story in the article. 

Speaking of dogs paying for their own food:

There’s a very good chance that would be on the screen of my Amiga if I turned it on right now.

It’s weird how much of an impact these fleeting periods had on our memories. I was just browsing my Steam history and noticed I bought my first game almost 14 years ago. That’s a decade longer than I played my NES or Genesis, and at least twice as long as the time I spent putting up with DOS. But I vividly recall the…

I’ve heard that argument made a few times, and I think there’s a lot of truth to it. But at least in the States, you couldn’t buy an Amiga in most stores by the time Doom became a phenomenon.

Don’t courts have the option to dismiss stupid crap like this?