Oh, Washington knew precisely how important he was; look at his reaction to his land grants. And as far as his ‘hundreds of other people’, you seem to find it not worth mentioning that they had to be of the ‘better types of people’ that he believed had a natural right to rule - probably the single most important and…

That was 15 minutes of my life I won’t get back listening to someone trying to sound really sophisticated while mostly babbling on about how much he liked the Hunger Games. In fairness, I actually did like large parts of the original trilogy - particularly the effects of PTSD on the participants - but the…

I’ve think I’ve mentioned this before here, but many years ago a general officer made a comment to me that’s stuck: it was ok if he virulently disagreed with his civilian bosses since they were indeed the boss and he’d salute swiftly, but the one thing he expected of them in return is that they’d gained enough…

Watched the NASA/SpaceX launch and parts of the flight. I don’t particularly care for Elon Musk commercializing space travel - having SpaceX all over the mission really was a bit jarring, and at times I wanted to reach through my screen to punch the 20 something PR hacks - but you also can’t help be inspired by much of…

On the one hand, I’m always interested in the rare adaptation that shows military life outside the stereotypical Hollywood scriptwriter who has gleaned their knowledge from watching Navy Seals and about ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan.

And a lot of that could be mitigated by—you guessed it!—stronger character development.

The twist was pretty well expected, but the strawberry speech was the one thing they absolutely had to do in the pilot: establish that for the rest of the train, those in the Tail are worthless unless they somehow possess a skill that’s required (and not just our protagonist Mr. Murder Police - the kid learning trig…

I don’t remember which Ultima - somewhere in the IV-VI range, but hey it’s been 30 (!) years since the last of those so no surprise I can’t recall which one - which had one of my all time favorites.

Bummer, as this was circled in for a full on XD/IMAX whatever, but at this point I’ll take any new entertainment that has a better than even chance of being good - and I don’t think a Tom Hanks screenplay on a subject he cares and knows a lot about is going to suck. Maybe we’ll get the They Shall Not Grow Old…

Almost meta: Snowball on the floor (after Snowball I doing the afterlife sleigh in the intro) while Marge proclaims everyone cuddled on the couch worked out their issues.

I’d argue with you on it being the last; even junior enlisted Gen Zers have seen Band of Brothers all the way through, and I’ve seen the box set in every wardroom I’ve been in since (albeit I’ve also been out a long time, so my sample size is almost certainly smaller than yours.) At least BoB provides some pretty good…

Yep, I remember during about the first 45 minutes or so of Edge of Tomorrow in the theater I actually thought to myself, “Wow. Tom Cruise is playing an incompetent idiot that ain’t much of a protagonist. This has got to be a first.”

I look forward to Robin Daggers doing a cyberstalking-from-the-comfort-of-your-couch update to her song as well.

I’ve mostly been reading - among the books this week was a good one on Reconstruction - but I did rewatch parts of two movies this week: On the Beach (the 1959 version) and Exit to Eden.

Agreed. As a kid in 1982, I remember being lucky and winning an opportunity to see E.T. several weeks prior to release and thinking it was going to be a fun summer. Star Trek II came after that and then Tron and Secret of NIMH. I’m pretty sure I did the bored kid thing and saw each several times that year.

While it may be ok if you’re streaming or such with a source outside your network, 50% on 802.11ac is far less than so-so and cripples your throughput if you’re doing any internal transfers on your LAN. Your channel width is going to almost certainly be 20 MHz at that point and in general you’ll be lucky to max out at …

FNL...wow. Good people. Gaius Charles was and remains the polar opposite of Smash, and Brad Leland cracks me up. Aimee Teegarden has definitely grown up.

Since pretty much none of these things have a chance in hell of being proposed by an airline, let alone implemented, I’ll toss something out that COVID-19 provides political cover to do: have Congress properly tax the airlines.

Mostly have been reading history, but started S6 of Bosch and made it through the first couple episodes. So far, it remains consistent with what I’ve said elsewhere when AVClub got snarky about it: nothing groundbreaking or boundary pushing, but it remains the usual solid and well-acted show we’ve come to enjoy over…

Wow, I’d almost forgotten that one, but yeah - his Groves was by far the best of the three Manhattan Project movies of that era, which considering he was up against Richard Masur in Hiroshima and Paul Newman in Fat Man and Little Boy is pretty good praise.