I was born a stone’s throw from Old Trafford and I’ve been a Man Utd fan since 1969, but every year it seems like it gets harder to admit to it in public.

“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.” - Roger Ebert

If somebody really wants smaller portions, a lot of restaurants offer “senior” options. Unlike the kids’ menu, it’s just like real food, only smaller.

I’m sort on the cusp of looking old enough not to get a double take when I ask if I can order from the senior menu, but it’s definitely less cheesy than ordering kids’…

Your local supermarket is missing two widely-available beers that most people rate higher than any of these. Clausthaler Dry Hopped (not Clausthaler Premium) is available in a lot of supermarkets. And Erdinger, which actually tastes a lot like weissbeer, is in many Total Wines stores as well as some supermarkets.

You ask what the market is. I’d say I’m definitely in it. Is it really so weird that there are people who drink beer because they like the taste rather than the buzz?

Pipe cleaners. Am I the only person out there using pipe cleaners as cable tidies?

New Scientist (British weekly science magazine) had a piece about four weeks ago about health / fitness myths and truths. And in the section about sports drinks, they also said that beer would be a fine substitute for sports drinks, if not for the alcohol.

“it’s just like a penis, only smaller!”

From the article:

1 TB, huh? Funny story: I just spent ten minutes trying to figure out why a USB stick would only show me 64MB. Formatted, repartioned, everything. Eventually I realized it was because it’s a 64MB USB stick. I had forgotten I still owned anything that small.

1 TB, huh? Funny story: I just spent ten minutes trying to figure out why a USB stick would only show me 64MB.…

That’s some good science. It also corroborates earlier, smaller scale studies of people who chose their own diet that found that it really didn’t matter much what diet people followed: Atkins, Paleo, WW, etc. all delivered about the same weight loss.

As great as that line was, it was my one small disappointment in the film. Even as T’Challa was delivering the line I was thinking “Please say ‘walls’! Please say ‘walls’!”. THAT would have been epic.

The robot arm project is a lot of fun. I’m in the middle of trying to program a Wii controller to get it to follow my arm movements. Reading the sensors is tricky, damping the movement so it doesn’t follow every twitch is challenging.

Is “skiing with someone else’s equipment” what the kids are calling it these days?

I literally just got back from seeing it with my son, and loved it. For a comic book movie, it hit really deeply on universal themes of loyalty and obligation and tradition and the eternal question of “who is my brother? who is my neighbor?”. Also, lots of trademark Marvel humor.

That was *nearly* good, Google. Now, how about the default is that ALL websites are muted, and only the ones I explicitly permit are allowed to play videos or sounds?

Be a little careful with HDMI passthrough boxes and automatic switching. Some devices’ outputs are always on, even when they are off. (My dish provider’s DVR, for example, is always sending a screensaver even when it is supposedly “off”). Consequently, the box may not switch to a new input. (Some boxes get around this…

Two words: pipe cleaners.

There’s also a certain irony that moviegoers seem to be much more comfortable with a movie about a powerful African than they would with one about a powerful African-American.

I installed one of these on my wife’s E250 van, which has basically zero rear visibility at the best of times, and less than that fully loaded. It’s wired in-line with the reversing lights, so it activates automatically when she puts it in reverse.

I installed one of these on my wife’s E250 van, which has basically zero rear visibility at the best of times, and…